Holy fuck the new reddit is shitty.... If i just want to see the link, I click the link. If i scroll down on a post, i want to read the comments.... plural, as in many... not just one or two, and then a new, unrelated post, and having to click a button to show the rest of the comments... the only "thing" you have (commenting/discussions), you're destroying now.
How are engineers proud to work at reddit when their primary job is maintaining a worse version of the website full of ads, tracking, dark patterns everywhere and fake loading screens?
There are people who can do engineering done without feeling proud or particular care about ethics. I've seen those at uni. Looking at IT through the money lens and no personal projects, no dev work outside of study, no books that are not absolutely necessary etc.
I mean.... you have to eat... if reddit pays you enough to make shitty software... why not. I'm sure they have a gajillion teams doing A/B testing, and using only advertising metrics to decide how it looks and what it does, so it's not really the devs choice of what to do,... they just have to implement it.
I mean it goes deeper. i.reddit.com and v.reddit.com are terrible places to put content if you want someone else to see it on reddit, there are serious performance issues there... and I'm on a wired connection to gigabit fiber in the Bay Area, not on 3G up in the mountains.
It speaks volumes that the best way to browse their social media platform is through third party tools or the deprecated interface. Not only is it a superior way to create and engage with communities (the only good subs are the comment/text driven ones these days anyways, if I want stupid videos I'll go to TikTok and Instagram where all that content comes from anyway), it's more performant.
I don't know what's going on at Reddit HQ but I guess there's a reason I've never heard anyone brag about working there.
Yep, I've actually had to turn off the new site. Not sure what they are doing, but whenever I use the new skin my browser slows to a crawl and freezes after a few hours of leaving it up.
