Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps
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In interviews with multiple publications, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman defended business decisions made by the company.
  • hightrix@kbin.social
    13·
    2 years ago

    While it is certainly sad the direction that reddit is going, there is just a little bit of joy in watching the public meltdown after all the user hostile decisions they’ve made over the past few years.

    There is not one single new feature added to reddit since before the redesign that has actually added value to the platform for a user.

    • hydra@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 years ago

      The redesign made things worse and only worse:

      • Login walls for random communities
      • Actively user hostile mobile website that doesn’t respect “use desktop site” and tries to funnel people into the app
      • Redesign and mobile app are bloated wastes of resources that do less than old.reddit but using several megabytes of Javascript, unusable with anything less than a stable 4G connection
      • Full of whitespace and rounded buttons that waste screen space, they expect everyone to have 1440p monitors to have a decent UI density
      • TheAngryBad@kbin.social
        3·
        2 years ago

        Visually, I actually quite like the look of the redesign (on desktop at least; mobile’s a whole other story). But it’s so bloated that on my old laptop I could get maybe 10-15 minutes of browsing time before it used up all my ram and dragged my whole computer to a crawl. And it has a whole mess of bugs that make it almost unusable - it feels like someone’s CS project rather than the front end of one of the largest sites on the web.