[ljm]

And their video player is utterly fucked. The video will load and reload about 3 times before it becomes playable, on the desktop. On the mobile site, usually the video freezes and the audio track plays. Gifs will overflow and play under the UI, and that's not been fixed for over a couple of years.

And now it renders Gifs inside replies and every single fucking thread has the "omg gifs!" thread voted to the top.

The modern Reddit UI is a complete and utter tragedy of design and engineering. But it serves ads, so who cares.

They only redesigned it so that they could make ads first-class.