Curious if Reddit employees can shed light on the point of recent UI changes for Reddit on mobile and desktop. Introduction of (broken) infinite scroll, too large font/padding, increased battery drain, and many small nits (unusable comment boxes for long posts on mobile, odd missing features like not showing what posts have been viewed) seem pretty… detrimental to user experience. Are these just changes for the sake of change (promo projects)? Do folks actually dogfood these changes internally? I don’t understand how a PM/designer/engineer could OK shipping these, even in the service of more ad revenue (I’ve actually started browsing less reddit). #entertainment #media #reddit
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No rationale other than the sake of completing “1st priority projects.” Not sure if you follow Reddit history but we are well-known for not accommodating users. Our CEO is one of the most hated people amongst Reddit users. I can speak for our org that many people don’t understand shipping these features because they aren’t dogfed and when it goes south, all hands are on deck to find solutions to eliminate bugs. But hey, remote work is nice.
I like the new UI 🙈
It doesn’t work correctly on mobile and hasn’t for weeks. Not to mention the loss of some sorting options. I use stock iOS Safari and have also tried stock iOS Chrome. Both have similar issues.