When I first read it I thought they were mentioning that as a selling point! But yeah it seems like they’re saying it like it’s a bad thing.
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OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
it feels like old reddit
Wait, when did that become a bad thing? I exclusively browsed old.reddit.com because the new layout is a fucking abomination.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 months ago
AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
How old are you?
hinterlufer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Boost feels a lot like rif which I was using and which shutdown made me switch to lemmy.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yeah, it seems most people still on reddit prefer the newer mobile UI. I never used one of the ‘fancy’ modern reddit apps, and I’m lowkey scared for the inevitable switch I’ll have to make when Eternity finally dies. All the other FOSS apps left have a very ‘iOS’ feel to them that I can’t stand
3dmvr@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I liked it a few years ago but they made it worse every update til it became near unusable
hansolo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That’s the feature! Not a bug.
The new reddit design sucks and always has, other than dark mode.
kernelle@0d.gs 2 months ago
I feel like most the old school redditors have long migrated, I’ve only ever heard good things about the new UI from relatively new users.
Lemmy is old reddit, if not OG internet ethos.
otter@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
New Reddit gets a lot of complaints too (loading issues, freezing), but it’s aimed at Reddit as a whole since newer users don’t know that old Reddit is an option.
At the same time, if I only ever used new Reddit, I would also think that old Reddit looks wrong
amju_wolf@pawb.social 2 months ago
I’m an OG user and other than technical issues (most of which have been figured it by now) I prefered both the original redesign and the newest one (though I did like the previous one more, I think).
If you get used to the fact that it’s just a bit different it’s perfectly fine and actually looks better. Especially since it has dark mode.
kernelle@0d.gs 2 months ago
I tried, but I like information density and the new UI is a horrible waste of space. I get why people like it and it’s way more modern, I’m saying loads of people who used reddit from the start will probably never get used to the new UI, mostly because of the customizability and open API.
Reddit didn’t have apps in the beginning, so we made them over the years perfecting the UI. I settled on baconreader with a compact view, but it and so many others died when the API was purged. I patched my app and can still use it to this day, but I don’t because fuck them.