As the deceased child comment to this post mentioned, reddit's UI is horrible. I strongly prefer old.reddit.com, but I don't expect it to live too long. A good UX designer would make their site much, much nicer to read (and hopefully much more performant). It appears that they are trying to push people to use their app, which I don't particularly wish to do since I'm on a desktop.
As for search, maybe they should just make a deal with another search engine and have it run the query on their site with site:reddit.com or !r in the background and show the results on a branded page. You would think that having access to their own data would make searching easier, but apparently it doesn't.
I am a big fan of reddit, even in it's broken state. As long as you're street smart and know where to stay away from, browsing reddit is a positive experience, at least for the subreddits I hang out in.
I'm really really hoping that one of the big companies doesn't buy reddit. They wouldn't know what to do with it and it would die an ignominious death. In my opinion, of course.
As for search, maybe they should just make a deal with another search engine and have it run the query on their site with site:reddit.com or !r in the background and show the results on a branded page. You would think that having access to their own data would make searching easier, but apparently it doesn't.
I am a big fan of reddit, even in it's broken state. As long as you're street smart and know where to stay away from, browsing reddit is a positive experience, at least for the subreddits I hang out in.
I'm really really hoping that one of the big companies doesn't buy reddit. They wouldn't know what to do with it and it would die an ignominious death. In my opinion, of course.