[anonymousab]

While the "download our app goddamnit" popups are clearly user-hostile, I do wonder how much of the rest of the UI is poor due to incompetence. Or to put it more nicely, due to structural and organizational issues.

Most of the new(er) UI seems to be a poorly performing, slow, and inefficient experience on desktop as well. There's a few improved features here or there, but most of the site is just genuinely awful to use - beyond things that are 100% subjective. Buttons and interactions are laggy and way more resources are used than you'd think were necessary. It certainly seems worse for getting ad impressions, ignoring the additional dark patterns it has over the old UI.

Across all of the new UI, the mobile version of it, and the official reddit apps, the experience is quite terrible, in many of the same ways. It seems odd to me that the same mistakes would be made in all of the products, and not solved after so much time and talent were available.

Maybe there's just some product person who likes a lot of bad ideas and has too much power. I dunno. It's weird.