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by pluc 1517 days ago
What's insulting is that you don't need to go far to get your type of feedback. Yet development efforts are spent on developing gamification mechanism that are utterly pointless, April Fool's or, wait, live streaming? They still manage two concurrent designs and have been for years - it's the longest frontend migration I've ever seen. They just started giving tools to the moderation community that has been keeping their platform alive and moderated.
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> They still manage two concurrent designs and have been for years - it's the longest frontend migration I've ever seen.

Maybe the new design is so obviously slower and broken that they see killing old.reddit.com as too risky (cf. the video player, the loss of position in a page when using back/forward, the un-followable comment threads that make you click on "more comments" 10 times a minute, and all the boxes begging for your email address and for you to please use the app).