[0xRusty]

In terms of the UI/UX use old.reddit.com - I honestly don't understand how anyone uses the new default version. Comments are hidden, there are ads and other threads content on the page. It's literally impossible to use. It's such a disaster I can't understand how it ever passed testing.

The community itself when you get away from the big main subreddits isn't too bad. The best experience is had when you unsub from all the main subreddits and only browse the smaller niche ones. Although they can be pretty toxic too. If you're looking for better quality in depth discussion on a hobby or topic I'm sure you already know better forums, but if you want beginners guides and more superficial meme chat it's a great resource on the whole.

[zhynn]

It amuses me every time I do it, but my two most common browser prefixes when I want a break are:

old (resolves to old.reddit.com) new (resolves to news.ycombinator.com)

It makes me chuckle.

[tedivm]

I had never noticed this and it's absolutely hilarious. I always wondered why they went with "old" as the descriptor there, but now I'm glad they did.

[_abox]

> In terms of the UI/UX use old.reddit.com - I honestly don't understand how anyone uses the new default version. Comments are hidden, there are ads and other threads content on the page. It's literally impossible to use. It's such a disaster I can't understand how it ever passed testing.

Not to mention it brings even a powerful machine to its knees..

[KallDrexx]

To offer an opposite argument, I hated reddit before the redesign and always take "old." out of links.

Every reddit looked like a geocities offering to me, they were inconsistent in coloring and contrast and all the bullshit I don't care about. Non-old reddit gave me a more consistent and less distracting way for me to quickly browse subreddits and posts I'm interested in and getting out.

[noir_lord]

with old.reddit.com when logged in you can opt out for subreddits been able to override the CSS then you get the vanilla and clean defaults everywhere.

I use it as my "whoops, forgot to login" reminder.

[KallDrexx]

I didn't know you could do that, I'll give that a try.

[lamontcg]

you can also nuke the subreddit style for individual subreddits when you are logged out.

[dvngnt_]

not with RES

[Domenic_S]

> I honestly don't understand how anyone uses the new default version

The day they kill old.reddit is the day I stop reading it.

[parineum]

There are alternate reddit sites that use their API to re-host the posts. Some (all) are even self-hostable.

If they get rid of old.reddit, I might quit just because of how hostile to the users I'd view that but I wouldn't quite because of the UI.

[ajmurmann]

It's almost like Twitter. You get the experience that matches what you subscribe to. Even some large subreddits like the F1 subreddit are great and friendly.

[blueblob]

There are ads in the old version too. They show up as sponsored posts though I don't know if they are as egregious because I also use old.

The only thing that I feel I miss out on in using old.reddit.com is the predictions. The /r/muaythai has a predictions tournament that's pretty fun but there's no way to get notifications that there are new predictions to be made with the old interface (as far as I know).

[SoftTalker]

Use an ad blocker. I use ublock origin and don't see any ads on old.reddit.

[blueblob]

I also use ublock origin, but it doesn't imply that there are not ads.

[utcursch]

> In terms of the UI/UX use old.reddit.com

Even better: https://reddit.com/.compact

[DavideNL]

I still prefer old.reddit.com with the Reddit Enhancement Suite extension;

Primarily it's easier to toggle comments.

[mmis1000]

I personally think the new UX is okay for a entertainment site. Although If you are there for information, then it isn't useful.

The actual problem is the performance. The new UX is just so terribly laggy. And even eat 20~30% cpu by literally just 4 tabs on my old 2700

How could they done such a bad job on coding a forum site? I just don't understand.