• Mickey7@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I never understood the advantage of using old reddit vs. new reddit. Can anyone explain it?

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Old Reddit was much more compact. You could see like 10 posts. New Reddit looks like Tiktok timelines one post fills up the whole screen and you have to keep scrolling.

      Old Reddit did look ugly by comparison but damn was it more efficient to use.

    • The Velour Fog @lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      For some, especially veteran users, the UI is more familiar. It’s also more predictable and less prone to bugs than the new UI, and especially the glitch-laden official app.

      Also, there’s less ads. I don’t see any ads on old.reddit but that might be uBlock Origin at work.

    • historicaldocuments@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Before they started nerfing it you could set it up to show you 100 posts at a time, and reading the comments in a post would load them all at once so you could click down a list of posts across multiple subreddits, open the ones you thought might be interesting in new tabs, then read at your leisure. You filtered by just scrolling more, and could do this without creating an account.

      Now they do all this “for safety” stuff, where you have to use Baby’s First Web Interface to look at a few comments that are so milquetoast that it’d be hard to call it a discussion at all. I’m sure it’s just coincidence that the changes also force click after click after click to see more posts which can be used as proof that it’s a user engaging (I guess?) and not a robot.

      It used to be seriously nice to read through comments, come across a word or concept that you didn’t really understand at the time, then go back and search the full text of all the comments for that word again. Folding comments killed that.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      the last wave proved that they’re not, but i bet they’ll make a pit stop before returning to us empire capture media like many did in the last surge.

  • Entropy_Pyre@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I don’t regret switching This app has been significantly healthier for my mental health. No infinite scroll, just what’s important.

    • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Regardless of whatever app you may be using (I’m just using a web browser), the threadiverse is not an app.

    • ferric_carcinization@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      No, and that’s not what the question is about. Let me rephrase the question for clarity:

      Reddit just started requiring logins to use old.reddit, the first step in it’s eventual shutdown. Is lemmy ready for new users the inevitable swarms of locusts? Can we prevail when the calamities foretold fall upon us, when our rivers turn to blood and the skies open up to drench our lands in acid? Or shall we perish? Drown under the great flood of liberal talking points that will wash over our lands?