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by kevincox 787 days ago
To be fair Reddit needs a redesign. The existing UI is pretty good on desktop but sucks with smaller displays.

Of course their last redesign was so bad that they are already working on a new one: https://sh.reddit.com/. It seems better so far, but lets hope it ships before they turn off old.reddit.com
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Bjartr 787 days ago
> but sucks with smaller displays.

That's the system working as intended. Why would they invest in making the site better on smaller displays (i.e. mobile) when their priority is to get you to use the app? From the normal not long term enough business perspective, doing so could only cannabalize those conversions to the app that would have otherwise happened. And conversion rate from web to app is almost certainly a explicitly tracked metric.

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kevincox 787 days ago
I don't think it is. If this was the main goal they would have just done nothing. Instead they rolled out a design which sucks for both desktop as well as maintaining shittiness on mobile..
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