[SyzygistSix]

The amount of critical thinking has plummeted and the amount of kneejerk judgement has exploded across the site in the last 5 years. Reddit has become the kind of place it used to make fun of ten years ago. It is little better than Twitter at this point, although my engagement with Twitter is limited, as I have never had an account there.

[Kaze404]

It's interesting to read comments like this because this sentiment has literally always existed. When I used Reddit in 2014 people used to say the exact same thing, yet nothing ever changed from my perspective. It was always bad.

[lrae]

That has less to do with the user interface though :) But in general, and for many subs, I agree.

[Nextgrid]

It depends - the UI could act as a filter, just like it does on HN.

The new UI, by virtue of its very low information density and pushing or irrelevant crap definitely encourages quicker & shallower interactions.