Comment by jrflo
1 month ago
Hasn't the redesign been around for like 8 years at this point? Kind of crazy they kept it around for so long.
1 month ago
Hasn't the redesign been around for like 8 years at this point? Kind of crazy they kept it around for so long.
Because it's still a big hunk of traffic, and moderators report relying on it (it loads significantly faster). They have bolded text relating to moderators in the annoucement: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1wubgvt/continuing...
It has been a godsend. The new design is bad in all the ways that most modern designs are bad: lots of needless padding, ads everywhere, poor information density. After they effectively killed third party apps, old.reddit.com has been the last bastion of a design intended for power users.
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It's the only thing usable for mods.
The new interface intentionally hostile, doesn't provide a way to read the entire thread, replies in a compact way.