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by vultour 1493 days ago
Literally everything. I've used it for a grand total of about 3 minutes but from what I remember:

* Defaults to some stupid instagram wall-like view where every link takes half the page

* The whole thing is now centered in a tiny slice of the screen

* Threads open in some weird modal mode where accidentally clicking outside of the content takes you to the previous page

* Opening a direct link on a phone loads like 5 comments, then it continues with endless irrelevant content

* You can't open random subreddits that have been set as NSFW on the phone because "This community is 18+, please open it in the app"

Every time I had the displeasure of interacting with the new design there was some upsetting regression compared to old Reddit.

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> Defaults to some stupid instagram wall-like view where every link takes half the page

Which is changed with a single click in the top right of the feed and it never defaulted back for me. (At least not the last 2+ years.)

> The whole thing is now centered in a tiny slice of the screen

If you're talking about the feed, it's not. At least not in classic or compact mode. Besides that, depends on your screen / windows size of course.

> Threads open in some weird modal mode where accidentally clicking outside of the content takes you to the previous page

Guess that's a matter of taste? I like it, I know there are people who force similar behaviour on old with plugins, so... - The implementation is still wonky though and the overall still existing, at least at times, slowness of the redesign (/api) fucks with it.

Last two points are less of an UI more of an UX thing and Reddit pushing their app. Still sucks of course. For mobile I can only recommend using third party apps - better than the mobile view and the official app.