<story><title>Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?</title><text>Terrible UX, mostly useless answers (most replies to posts are either poorly sarcastic or not replying to the actual point). Before it wasn&amp;#x27;t like this. Did the Reddit board voluntarily or involuntarily cause this via technical decisions, or it&amp;#x27;s just unavoidable to get this degradation after the userbase grows too much?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xRusty</author><text>In terms of the UI&amp;#x2F;UX use old.reddit.com - I honestly don&amp;#x27;t understand how anyone uses the new default version. Comments are hidden, there are ads and other threads content on the page. It&amp;#x27;s literally impossible to use. It&amp;#x27;s such a disaster I can&amp;#x27;t understand how it ever passed testing.&lt;p&gt;The community itself when you get away from the big main subreddits isn&amp;#x27;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&amp;#x27;re looking for better quality in depth discussion on a hobby or topic I&amp;#x27;m sure you already know better forums, but if you want beginners guides and more superficial meme chat it&amp;#x27;s a great resource on the whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zhynn</author><text>It amuses me every time I do it, but my two most common browser prefixes when I want a break are:&lt;p&gt;old (resolves to old.reddit.com)
new (resolves to news.ycombinator.com)&lt;p&gt;It makes me chuckle.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?</title><text>Terrible UX, mostly useless answers (most replies to posts are either poorly sarcastic or not replying to the actual point). Before it wasn&amp;#x27;t like this. Did the Reddit board voluntarily or involuntarily cause this via technical decisions, or it&amp;#x27;s just unavoidable to get this degradation after the userbase grows too much?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xRusty</author><text>In terms of the UI&amp;#x2F;UX use old.reddit.com - I honestly don&amp;#x27;t understand how anyone uses the new default version. Comments are hidden, there are ads and other threads content on the page. It&amp;#x27;s literally impossible to use. It&amp;#x27;s such a disaster I can&amp;#x27;t understand how it ever passed testing.&lt;p&gt;The community itself when you get away from the big main subreddits isn&amp;#x27;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&amp;#x27;re looking for better quality in depth discussion on a hobby or topic I&amp;#x27;m sure you already know better forums, but if you want beginners guides and more superficial meme chat it&amp;#x27;s a great resource on the whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KallDrexx</author><text>To offer an opposite argument, I hated reddit before the redesign and always take &amp;quot;old.&amp;quot; out of links.&lt;p&gt;Every reddit looked like a geocities offering to me, they were inconsistent in coloring and contrast and all the bullshit I don&amp;#x27;t care about.  Non-old reddit gave me a more consistent and less distracting way for me to quickly browse subreddits and posts I&amp;#x27;m interested in and getting out.</text></comment>