Happened to me a few days ago, and I just can’t believe how bad this redesign is!!
It’s hard to comprehend what goes into the heads of that dev team, but they basically ruined everything nice about the platform. The API changes were pretty much a fatal shot already, but this new redesign seems to be what tipped the scales for me, and hopefully many more.
It’s a great time to switch to Lemmy, and I think I’m going to make the effort to stick around and abandon the habit of opening reddit multiple times per day.
Do you think forcing this re-design will bring more people here? I’m hoping for that. Reddit betrayed us and I can’t find it me to keep forgiving them for every horrible, anti-user decision.
I noticed in some moderator subreddit, that it is planned to kill new.reddit.com as well. Old will likely stay for longer, but new is what I got used to, and if they take it down I won’t bother getting used to the newer, garbage UX.
As an ex-redditor, my only reaction is
The Old Reddit Redirect addon for Firefox still works.
The day that breaks, is the day when I finally come to the realization that I will have to find someplace else for niche content that isn’t available here. I’m not so sure that such a website exists. Reddit killed off all the competition.
Wait, there’s a newer redisgn than new?
You should be able to see it if you open reddit in incognito without logging in: https://reddit.com/
it ain’t worth disabling my old redirect (which still works) to look.
Looking more and more like the current version of digg.com.
This is why we teach history, kids.
So now there’s a NewNew Reddit? That IPO is getting ever closer, guess they’ll be thrashing around all the harder in the lead up to that to try to show some kind of path to profitability.
Yeh try opening reddit in incognito w/o logging in. It’s basically a mobile design, but now for desktop as well. They haven’t even implemented Compact mode. It’s unreal. Half of it is wasted space, and it looks so green. Baby vomit vibes.
Can’t even view it because I’m using a VPN.
Which should tell you enough, tbh.
Wait even if you go to old.reddit.com?
Edit: old still seems to be fine
Old is fine, and the 2nd redesign is currently at new.reddit.com (but it’s possible it could be gone at some point).
“How do we get rid of old reddit?”
“Make a new new reddit, and the make new reddit old reddit.”
“Promote this man.”
Huh. Kinda looks like the front page of twitter. I hate it. I mean, I don’t go to reddit anymore unless I’m forced to Google something and even then I gotta turn off my VPN first, but still. Yuck.
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You can see it by going to sh.reddit.com. A lot of people are getting forced to this if they try to use new.reddit.
old.reddit supposedly remains unaffected, so if you use that domain specifically you should be fine. Assuming the Admins aren’t lying.
Soon old.old.reddit
…: there’s a redesign? I’m still using old Reddit. New Reddit was always shit.
If they somehow made something worse than new reddit that’s actually pretty impressive. There was literally nothing to like about that update.
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Welcome and please stay on Lemmy. It’s what reddit used to be and only improves every month the more people come here.
I don’t know if I’m the only one who feels this way, but the new design makes it look more like a social media site than a forum.
Pretty sure that’s the point
I’m sure we’ll start seeing stories/reels/shorts making a comeback as well, they just want to make it a copy of other social platforms indeed. Their brainrot knows only one thing - copy trends that make money. They had no clue what to do with reddit, and it’s apparent in every decision they’ve made. RIP Aaron Swartz. He had such a different vision. Reddit team needs to be disbanded. It looks like that’s the plan anyhow. Sell reddit and fuck everything off to whoever comes next.
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It’s kinda hard to cut out something like reddit 100%. I technically stopped using Reddit, I’ve only been on Lemmy since RiF was shut down since I’m mainly a mobile user. I logged into my reddit account once and that was to commission an art piece. And that’s something I’ll probably keep doing because it’s been the best experience for commissions.
There’s also search inquiries that you can get actual answers to just by typing reddit at the beginning of your search. Like when my TV started having an issue I tried normal search results and forums, absolutely zero help. All the answers were either buy a new TV or call a tech, and the people that dealt with techs said it was minimum $300 for the tech to tell them they had to take the TV for a minimum 2 weeks. So I tried a search by typing Reddit in front and I found a solution within the first two posts. Lead me to a YouTube channel where the guy showed how to fix the issue in 10 minutes with just a piece of tape.
Reddit will keep getting worse, but there will still be useful posts from it’s better days. I wouldn’t say that it’s that consumers have no spine, but rather it’s a mix of old habits and sunken cost fallacy. But it will reach a point like Myspace and Facebook did and lose a large amount of users.
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Xitter? You mean Twix? ;-)
I tried Fiverr a few times, especially after the Reddit changes. But i haven’t enjoyed my experiences so far. I’ve also tried deviant art and art station, but so far HungryArtists has been a great experience. Would love to have that on Lemmy.
That’s why Meta and Xitter don’t let you do anything without being logged in. Fortunately that’s something Reddit still allows.
Dear god, now that you say this I realize it’s just a matter of when. Why is enshittification so rampant?
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Why is anyone here still using reddit? What’s the point of not using reddit anymore if you still use reddit? Whats the point in saying fuck u/spez if you keep using reddit?
I’ve been exclusively on lemmy since the reddit blackout, and it’s been great.
Just give reddit up my dudes. Its shit
Momentum, there are active niche subreddits that don’t really exist on lemmy yet.
It’s a fair point, but i think it would be better to encourage those niche subreddits to jump ship to lemmy. Or create the community here yourself.
If reddit has a reason for people to stay then reddit will remain relevant and continue to make money for spez.
Recipe for instant good Lemmy community
Effort required from you: 1 hour
- Sign up two or three Lemmy accounts. 5 minutes
- Go to a niche reddit community and grab half a dozen good submissions in the last year or so. Post them to your Lemmy with different accounts. 10 minutes
- Now for the hard part. Go and create some good quality original submissions. Work hard on 2-3 good pieces of content that don’t exist on reddit. 35 minutes.
- Post links to those submissions on reddit. 5 minutes
- Spend a few seconds voting up and engaging with any commenters in your new community. 5 minutes
Even simple upvotes from your few accounts can catalyse engagement and make the community start to come together.
Pretty solid advice
While browsing all, seeing the effects of #2 is a signal to block the community. When I see 10 posts from the same community in a row on all, it gets blocked.
ok cool, so what is your alternative?
Simple in practice but obviously harder to grow a community… but the answer is to post like a normal person. Stagger posts a few hours apart at a minimum.
Stagger posts? Make the posts a month apart?
Just give reddit up my dudes.
Aren’t you subscribed to this community? , 🤔
Oh! I am. If i recall, i moved to lemmy and subbed to this community when reddit went dark to keep in the loop on how the protests were going and if there had been any real impact on reddit overall. I guess i never unsubbed.
Either way, it doesn’t change anything i said.
If anything it juat raises the question of what the purpose of this community is. Is it reddit recon, is it a space to point and laugh at rhe choices reddit makes, or is it a place for those who can’t let go to cling to the past?
Because lemmy isn’t useful. Open the app and all I see is anti capitalism, Linux, Elon musk, and a bunch of unfunny memes
I had a specific question about Iceland yesterday I had to go to reddit for because lemmy has no Iceland community
And when reddit started it wasnt useful. I dont want to repeat what i already said in another reply but essentially it boiled down to: the only way that lemmy replaces reddit is if people create the communities here and encourage people to move here.
Reddit is great for info but its gotten quite alot worse since the blackout when alot of people deleted their comments in protest. I have had a number of situations where a comment with a bunch of replies saying “thanks that solved it” has beem deleted and my problem goes unsolved.
We all need lemmy to become more popular so it can replace reddit as a massive repository of useful information about everything.
Reddit wont be useful at all in a few more years.
Unless a larger portion of the userbase migrates, Reddit will get to do what they want to. Unfortunately the landed gentry/toxic mods are going to do what they can to keep them there too, including modding out any info posts about alternatives.
I saw the writing on the wall over the summer of 2023. Reddit won’t die, nothing will. I had tinkered with mastodon before but that realisation above is really what pushed me to migrate everything I use to the fediverse. Most people are too stubborn to give up the very things that keep abusing them because they are already established, instead of putting in the effort of engaging with something new. Even yesterday a friend of mine was nonstop complaining about twitter and when I mentioned bluesky and mastodon “oh it’s okay, X is more popular so I’m just gonna stay on it”. I have Lemmy and bluesky for now. I have ecosia for my search and waterfox for my browser. the only thing it’s really hard to get rid of is YouTube, even invidious is just a front-end for it. kinda got off topic but the point is, Reddit hasn’t lost momentum. nothing has or will for a long while. bad changes will keep enshittifying everything.
Any time Reddit makes a stumble is likely to generate at least a small exodus looking for alternatives. This is an example of such a moment.
In order to keep those users on Lemmy it needs to have activity. A community with no posts or only ancient posts is not attractive. Yes, Lemmy has politics and memes, but it needs more activity in other types of communities. People say as much constantly and it is obvious.
If you want Lemmy to thrive then I highly suggest you post in communities relevant to your interests.
It would also be nice if some of the largest instances didn’t ban people for not thinking Mao Zedong was a good dude.
I wish they would just understand that all they need is a simple lightweight layout with ways to sort post and threads.
No “more” buttons and no fancy scripts. Just load the page and maybe have people make some comments without reloading the page, but that’s it. We need less internet traffic and less resource usage. I should be able to visit a forum board like reddit with the same pentium 1 pc I used to visit invision forums on dialup back in the day.
They redesigned the site again? old.reddit.com was literally the only usable design. No avatars, no ridiculous amounts of padding, no broken search results, no forced sign-in for NSFW-marked content.
