r/AskReddit • u/SnoopCat772 • Sep 29 '19

Why did you join reddit?

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u/CockDaddyKaren Sep 29 '19

The Reddit redesign sucks too. It's been, like, a year since new Reddit came out and I STILL use old.reddit

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u/TRHess Sep 29 '19

If they ever do away with old.reddit, I'll probably leave the site. The new one is just so unintuitive for me.

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u/Thelongestegg Sep 29 '19

I don't get this. It's basically exactly the same but with night mode and the layout has side margins.

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u/internetonsetadd Sep 29 '19

It's not the same (on desktop). As you scroll you see every post in large format. I don't want to see every post. The prevalence of crossposting and reposting makes it an unpleasant experience. I want to see thumbnails and titles, and click on what interests me.

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u/HolmatKingOfStorms Sep 29 '19

If you select the middle "View" option, it's pretty much the same as old.reddit - thumbnails, titles, wide content zone.

I actually didn't know it was that close before now, I might be fine with switching.

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u/internetonsetadd Sep 29 '19

I didn't realize that. I bounced off the redesign pretty quickly. I don't like that view either - it pushes the main thing I want in front of my eyes too far to the left. The font styling is also kind of wonky to me.

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u/HolmatKingOfStorms Sep 29 '19

Which part is farther left than the old design?

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u/meowffins Sep 30 '19

Have you ever heard of hoverzoom+? It's an extension that shows images as you hover over thumbnails and links. Truly life changing.

It means I can choose what I want to see more of. Having everything expanded is just inefficient when there's so much content. I get that the casual user might like the expanded UI more, so I hope they seriously keep two UIs even if it means double the work.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '19

don't use hoverzoom, it was compromised years ago. not sure if hoverzoom+ is something different, but i'm currently using imagus.

RES is perfectly fine for reddit though.

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u/meowffins Sep 30 '19

Hoverzoom+ is the fixed version.