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Vespair@lemm.ee 2 months agoI can’t fathom how people have been using the redesign in the first place. Old.reddit was the only way.
Comment on Apparently Bluesky lets you require a sign in to view a post
Vespair@lemm.ee 2 months agoI can’t fathom how people have been using the redesign in the first place. Old.reddit was the only way.
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I never moved to the new UI. I assume that users using the new UI is a combination of:
Many, probably most of the existing userbase came in after the redesign – Reddit kept growing. Probably not even aware of it.
A lot of users – especially today, though not back when the site was created – are browsing the site using a smartphone, and the old UI, while usable, is not designed around a small smartphone screen. (That’s a two-edged sword; to some extent, I think that the new UI is poorly suited to a personal computer.) That being said, Reddit, like many Web-based services, pushes hard to get mobile users on the official app – more access to a user’s computer and data-harvesting potential, I suppose – and I’d guess that a lot of smartphone users use the official app these days, rather than the mobile Web UI. I think that Reddit mostly sees the mobile Web UI as a way to help lower the bar to feed new users in, but that’s not where they want mobile users long-term.
Reddit added inline images to the new UI, but not the old.
There is a small amount of incompatibility…I’d have to go back and look it up, but IIRC backslash-URL-escaping for URLs just pasted into the text rather than using Markdown the
[]()link syntax has slightly different edge cases, so you can get a link that works in the old UI but not the new and vice versa.I haven’t played with the new UI enough to know what didn’t make it over, but I don’t know if the subreddit wikis – each subreddit came bundled with a wiki – ever made it over. They weren’t accessible from the new UI when it came out.