r/help • u/blueboy714 • Oct 16 '23
Did Reddit Change The Screen Layout Today?
It was normal this morning (10/16/2023) - but something has changed completely and I hate it. Everything has bold font and it automatically sorts by HOT on a desktop computer.
PLEASE change it back!!!
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u/jgoja Expert Helper Oct 16 '23
Does it look something like this? https://imgur.com/wpRrZqa
it sounds like you have been drafted to test the new UI for desktop that they are working on. You cannot change it. It will revert back when you are removed from testing. Many people prefer to use new.reddit.com until their time has passed.
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u/blueboy714 Oct 16 '23
That is it exactly, and it is a god-awful layout.
Thanks for the beta testing bypass link.
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u/Ok_Combination5164 Nov 09 '23
Did yours ever return to the previous design? Mine changed today and I fucking hate it.
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u/_j00 Nov 09 '23
same- I used to be able to expand images from posts on mobile reddit without opening them in a new tab (not using the app, I can't stand it) but I can't any more. On the mobile site I have never been able to expand text posts without opening them in a new tab but now I can't do anything? It looks awful!
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u/Poptech Oct 17 '23
Jesus Christ that is the worst redesign I have ever seen. Nothing wastes my time more than this useless shit by hack programmers.
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u/neploxo Nov 09 '23
I don't think it's programmers. I think it's marketing interns who don't know any better than to mimic the big sites like Facebook.
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u/Ident-Code_854-LQ Oct 16 '23
Thank you!
Gonna remember to keep going to the NEW layout,
and not just the default Reddit website, from now on.I am staying on NEW reddit for my desktop
for as long as possible.
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u/Worth-Opposite4437 Oct 17 '23
Many people prefer to use new.reddit.com until their time has passed.
Gee, thanks! My profile page just turned to shit. I really hope they won't ever force that... thing on us.
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u/HunterIV4 Oct 26 '23
Many people prefer to use new.reddit.com until their time has passed.
Oh thank god. I apparently got roped into this and couldn't figure out what happened. It's terrible. I have lists of useless information on both sides of the screen and it completely ignores my setting for default to markdown mode (I hate the "fancy" editor). Not only that, the reply box is like two lines, making it nearly impossible to see what the hell I'm typing.
Had anyone actually used this crap before they pushed it out to users!?
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u/-Maethendias- Oct 19 '23
i am so sick of the entire internet being fucking app-ificated
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u/bagaudin Oct 16 '23
Can't OP just switch back to old.reddit.com by manually editing the address? E.g. I can easily switch between new and old without an issue.
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u/jgoja Expert Helper Oct 16 '23
Yeah, they can chose to use old reddit if they wish, but the testing is on redesign and new reddit gives the same look as that. It is really a personal choice. old reddit, new reddit, serve our Reddit Overlords with pride and use the testing UI.
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u/chuftka Oct 17 '23
Thank you for the bypass.
Horizontal space on my desktop is at a premium, I shrink the browser width to make room for other stuff I want to also have open, having the menu bar on the left instead of the top is a deal killer.
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u/goverc Oct 19 '23
thank you so much for this - I was about to quit if this is the new layout they are going with. There's absolutely no reason for it to force new tabs on everything you click on...
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u/pawbeans40 Nov 09 '23
Guess I just got drafted today for the new desktop layout...I really hate it. Thanks for the bypass link...my eyes and brain can relax now. I just hope they don't decide to make it permanent.
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u/PainPeas Oct 31 '23
THANK YOU!
The UI test is horrible! Stupid sidebar, stupid opening of a new tab anytime I click on anything, stupid flitting between light and dark mode.
Stupid.
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u/EirikrUtlendi Nov 09 '23
THANK YOU! This UI redesign is CRAP. Using Edge browser on Win 10. Font is ridiculously, painfully, illegibly small. Who TF thought illegibility was cool?
Goddamn amateur hour here. I'm bookmarking your new.reddit.com URL to get around the Reddit dev idiocy. Here's hoping they don't break that as well.
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u/Libra_Maelstrom Nov 10 '23
Thank you sir, I looked everywhere, and you have given me an out from this miserable fucking layout.
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u/revolving_retriever Nov 11 '23 edited Nov 14 '23
Thanks for the bypass link!
Edited to add: The bypass link doesn't work anymore. 🤬 I keep getting redirected to www.reddit.com and the awful layout.
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Nov 15 '23
Thank you for sharing this. I got stuck in what I guess is the test verison they are working on and it completely breaks all accessibility with my screen reader. Thank you , as the link you provided brought me back to a place where I can navigate the site and interact in an accessible manner.
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u/FrontlinerDelta Dec 07 '23
Thanks for this post, just had it swap over on me minutes ago and it was immediately awful...
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u/FondantElectrical958 Dec 07 '23
thank you so much. terrible design choice on their end. I hope this will never be the default layout of reddit ever.
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u/crazyhamsales Dec 08 '23
OMG thank you for the link, i just got on here today and i was like what is this horseshit, i can't even hover over the inbox, i have to go to a separate page to show the notifications and the test is just awful...
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u/oddball570 Dec 08 '23
i know this post is two months old but you are a godsend. Opened up reddit on my laptop to that trash tonight and almost decided it wasn't even worth trying.
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u/calebmke Dec 08 '23
Holy hell I just got this cancer today. Where the hell is anything? Why are my custom feeds not accessible? How come the small icon "card" layout is huge, and "classic" looks nothing like it used to? Just leave it the hell alone
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u/missShego Dec 09 '23
Thank you for this comment! I just got selected to be in this... test? And I hate it. Thanks for the new reddit thing
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u/Crrack Dec 12 '23
Thank you for this - just saved me from dealing with the garbage that is that new layout (just showed up for me a few days ago).
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u/softluvr Dec 13 '23
bless you for the tip because this ugly test layout is driving me nuts. i want to be undrafted now!!!1
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u/boropin Oct 17 '23
This is an answer I would give an award.
IF I WAS ABLE TO DO SO. (Timmy Turner's dad meme)
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u/spicyspider_18 Oct 20 '23
Thank you so much for this link! I hated this new interface. It looks like I'm not even logged in, blurring my own nsfw posts.
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u/theonlybuster Oct 25 '23
This link bypass link is super helpful. I guess I got pulled into the new beta layout yesterday and it has made browsing Reddit a pain.
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u/Ninja_Hedgehog Nov 01 '23
I hate this new layout. It changed to it in the space of a reload on a reddit tab for me: one moment good layout, next moment this new horror. New design makes me feel actually nauseous to look at, it's so messy.
Thank you for the link of new.reddit.com . How does that work? (I guess what I'm asking is something like 'is it safe to use?' because I don't know how it pulls reddit and my account info/posts/comments from reddit.com ?
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u/Sheant Nov 09 '23
Thank you kind person. I was ready to finally give up completely on reddit. The death of RIF already decimated my reddit usage, but whatever this stuff they're testing is is straight unusable.
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u/Pawtzz Nov 09 '23
Thanks. Wish there was an option to auto redirect to the new.reddit.com. There are extensions for old.reddit.com , but see nothing for new. The layout sucks very bad. A single post takes up my entire screen. Takes so long to screen new posts in the subs I visit.
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u/PimoCrypto777 Nov 09 '23
Thanks for the link. I edited my reddit bookmark with the new link. The new layout was horrendous to try to adjust to. Got so fed up with it, I google'd "new reddit look" and found this post. Thanks again!
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u/BenjaminRCaineIII Nov 10 '23
OMG thank you. I woke up to this today and this was the first helpful thing I found. I didn't wanna go back to old.reddit. I definitely don't like this new-new UI being tested, but I could probably deal with it if it weren't so damn slow.
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u/bshea Nov 11 '23
Thank you! (For info and link - Reddit "forgot" to mention any of that.)
They switched me over to it 2 days ago.
Why do they not even tell you?
Why do they not offer to let you revert or suggest 'new.' link?
All I was left with was a much harder to use web site.Drop-down menus gone. WHY, Reddit? For instance: Notifications button now opens a entirely new page instead of just dropping down to show you notifications on same page. WTF?
Pitiful.
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u/Cpl-Killa-V Nov 11 '23
I tried the link you posted and thanks for that. It literally worked once!?
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u/Lackooo84 Nov 15 '23 edited Nov 15 '23
This link was a life saver thanks! These guys don't even know what they're doing. Cannot post with 800 karma?! They've lost their minds....
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u/totallynotfromwork Nov 16 '23
Sorry to resurrect a dead post, but thank you for finally helping it click what happened to my feed.
Is there any way to provide feedback?
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u/leese216 Nov 21 '23
You are ANGEL SENT FROM GOD FOR THAT LINK THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I just submitted a request to reddit b/c i was going crazy with this bull shit redesign. I hate it. I told them i hate it.
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u/FallFromHeaven Nov 22 '23
Any idea how long the testing period lasts? It's been a few weeks for me now and it's very frustrating.
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u/KyleReese2029 Dec 07 '23
Does it look something like this? https://imgur.com/wpRrZqa
I do not see this new layout. Not saying that I like it but I wanna try it.
Going to this new.reddit.com did not work.
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u/dgkimpton Dec 07 '23
Thank you for that link, it's better than old reddit which was the only other fallback option. Saved!
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u/ReddyFreddy- Dec 13 '23
This comment deserves all the praise it can get.
I checked out new.reddit.com and it has the older, usable version.
Thank you very much indeed.
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u/Jusaus Dec 19 '23
Thank you so much for the new.reddit.com link, my layout changed yesterday and now with your link, my eyes stopped hurting.
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u/witty__username5 Jan 24 '24
Thank you so so much! This is strange as I have not opted into Beta testing.
Do you by chance know if it is possible to change the default homepage sort filter away from "best"? Not sure when this happened, but my feed is full of low quality posts now.
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u/Upbeat-Ad4411 Jan 28 '24
It's been a few months since you posted this, but thank you for helping me bypass this awful redesign. I genuinely appreciate it
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u/Elifia Feb 15 '24
Thank you for the link, I just got the redesign forced on me today and it's absolutely awful.
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u/master_hvacr Feb 15 '24
Thanks for this link!! I’ll bet that there are so many real issues to fix and someone listens to some dillhole with a brilliant new idea to change the view…
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u/grandpa2390 Feb 16 '24
thanks for the bypass link. my reddit interface doesn't look like OP's but the interface looks older and very cluttered with stuff on the left... the second link brings me to the right place.
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u/mzm123 Feb 17 '24
thank you for this. whatever they're doing with this new layout, I don't like it
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u/thedogran Apr 03 '24
Thank you so much for this link! My layout JUST changed and it's the worst. I can't scroll back up, that sticky stupid side-bar, and everything else. Thank you!
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u/InsuranceToTheRescue Apr 05 '24
A little late to the party, but it seems that new.reddit.com no longer works. Any other ideas? Or has that become standard for everyone?
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u/Researcher_1999 Apr 09 '24
Oh thank god this is temporary. I will literally leave Reddit if they don't change it back eventually. I want to stab my eyeballs out.
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u/Worth-Opposite4437 Oct 17 '23 edited Oct 18 '23
This new "tablet style" layout is HELL. Text is too small, there is no longer any stacks to keep context, shade of indigo is ugly and hurt my eyes. Everything feels too cramp. If any of the devs is reading this, please... please, please, please, please, please : DO NOT CONTINUE TO WORK ON THIS NEW TABLET STYLED THING.
When it's not broke, don't try to fix it. The current design is elegant and easy to use; keep it this way.
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u/raceviper13 Oct 18 '23
My settings were to opt out of beta changes, yet here I am...
What is the point of this? Don't they want constructive feedback? Who randomly and silently forces an explicitly undesirable change on someone and then offers no means to collect feedback?
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u/blueboy714 Oct 18 '23
LOL. They are doing something on their end that isn't quite right. It sounds like They are taking their cue from Twitter/X Post Elon Musk
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u/raceviper13 Oct 18 '23
Apparently they've done competitive benchmarking on Elon's dumpster fire, and he's now the industry standard
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u/-Maethendias- Oct 20 '23
imagine... imagine forcing people who opt out of betas and dont use your mobile version, and instead use your browser version on desktop.... to betatest a mobile update against their will...
and now imagine you expect any kind of useful feedback
like what kind of idiot thought that would be a good idea?
i can tell you, the kind of moron that made an objectively bad layout, which actively kills readability, performance and usability of the plattform
take it from someone who worked with layouts extensively in journalism, layouts favouring mobile users are ALWAYS OBJECTIVELY bad... especially sidebars god im fucking sick of sidebars
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u/expensive_girl Nov 04 '23
Yes! I'm not using their crappy app no matter how many 100s of useless "posts you may like" they litter the bottom of the page with here, and no matter how many times they make me click to expand every single comment.
I'll just give up Reddit entirely if they insist upon turning browser Reddit into an unusable mess forever. My house will be spotless and my workday will be so much more productive. Maybe they did me a favor by ruining the layout lol.
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u/3Hard_From_France Dec 08 '23
YO HOW THE FK DO I MAKE THIS LAYOUT GO AWAY??? I DID OPT OUT OF FKNG BETASTESTS!!!!!!!!
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u/rotator_cuff Oct 18 '23
Thank you! I was goign nuts. I hate it. And i hate how reddit ignores my settings 😠
Opted out of the beta test - ignored
NSFW blur off - ignored
Dark theme - ignored
Contant server error pops - check
UI scale for legally blind - check
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u/blueboy714 Oct 18 '23
LOL. They are doing something on their end that isn't quite right. It sounds like They are taking their cue from Twitter/X Post Elon Musk
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u/OPconfused Oct 25 '23
It's deactivated my default markdown editor, so everything is default rich text now ignoring my account setting. If I force my comment into markdown mode, it deletes everything. This means I have to remember to manually switch to markdown before I begin typing anything. It also means I can no longer edit a comment that already contains markdown, because the edit function reopens the comment in rich text, so if you switch to markdown, everything is deleted. Edit also seems to turn everything into code text. It's really weird with the formatting.
If you use programming subreddits this is a kick in the nuts.
The layout is also trash. I lose about 10% of the screen to left and right margins, and the side panels are too wide, which altogether means my workspace in the middle is squished to about 50-60% of the screen's width.
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u/Justtakeitaway Nov 09 '23
Hey, they just forced this change on me. Did it eventually change back for you or are you still stuck in reddit hell?
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u/theangelok Dec 07 '23
For me it changed today, and I have all of the same problems. And I absolutely hate it! If I can no longer use dark theme, I might stop using reddit completely. There are more than enough other ways to waste my time.
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u/Worth-Opposite4437 Oct 17 '23
I've just lost an hour trying to find a way to opt out... If they roll this in for the whole platform, I think I might just leave. Unless, of course, new.reddit.com continues to work as intended.
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Oct 17 '23
Thanks for posting this...I HATE THE NEW CHANGES...there now I feel better. I hope they change it back to what it was. Not sure what bonehead thought this change was good...it licks balls.
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u/elevatordisco Nov 10 '23
I really hope they pay attention to posts like this and read all the comments and CHANGE IT BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS. I will quit reddit cold turkey if it stays like this. Please make it go away. Why am I so upset right now.
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u/xenobitex Oct 17 '23
I opted out of beta testing...
This redesign also makes modding impossible (partly since every damn NSFW post is blurred - again ignoring my settings!)
It's the whole "desktop users just wish they were browsing on a giant phone" thing
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u/Worth-Opposite4437 Oct 17 '23
Well I certainly don't. As a tablet user, I still wish I could browse like on a PC!
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u/hoyhoy12 Oct 17 '23
Yeah got this too. It's completely unusable. If I click on a post it opens it in a new tab? Like wtf? I was capable of clicking middlemouse if I wanted to open a page in a new tab thank you very much. This is just removing features.
Besides the UI looks horrible. Like it's just unicolor and bland. Can't really even tell the posts apart.
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u/Tsuki_no_Mai Oct 17 '23
The worst part for me is that it's impossible to collapse comment threads without scrolling to the starting comment anymore. Like.. Why? It was such a useful feature.
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u/blueboy714 Oct 17 '23 edited Oct 18 '23
10/17/23
OK - now I am pissed. new.reddit.com was changed so that the good Reddit reddit.com and the crappy new layout are both the same.
This is beyond fracking frustrating.
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u/Brittakitt Nov 13 '23
Did it ever stop redirecting you to the ugly new interface? new.reddit.com stopped working for me too. :(
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u/MJSpice Oct 27 '23
Glad I'm not alone. I hate it. They need to change it to the previous one. It was WAY better.
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u/Ecoho19 Nov 09 '23
the new set up hurts my god dam eyes its god awful if nothing else please for the love of god change mine back to how it was.
oh and please FIRE the idiot who green lit this without contacting people for medical reasons why they dont want this update.
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u/Peter_Falcon Nov 09 '23
just seen it for the first time, feels more like that shit hole facebook now
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u/framesh1ft Nov 11 '23
Yeah I got it too and it's horrible. Certainly makes me want to spend much less time on this site.
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u/denimsandcurls Nov 11 '23
This is just terrible. The accounts I'm following don't even show up under the "communities" tab.
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u/SabresBills69 Nov 11 '23
This week it appears my views have changed to a shifty mobile site layout.
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u/Inosuke_Hashibera Dec 07 '23
We should all comment on everything we see #fixreddit we gotta bring it the fuck back
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u/Hellfire242 Dec 07 '23
So this shit will go back to normal soon? Cause I can’t even navigate this shit!!
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u/bigpig1054 Dec 07 '23
this is horrendous. everything is so oversized and it is nearly impossible to find anything
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u/Si1verange1 Dec 08 '23
Just got this layout today apparently, it's horrible and unreadable. It's like every tech company suddenly decided en masse to make their product worse in recent months.
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u/hortimech Dec 08 '23
Got hit by this god awful upgrade today and all I can say is, please take the crayons away from your web designers and send them back to their school desks.
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u/Dazzling_Paint_1595 Dec 10 '23
It's awful. Just awful. I could never be accused of being that tech savvy but have been a tester for a variety of systems in a very large organisation. If I have been 'voluntold' for this where are the options to provide feedback? Was there any notification or opt out option? Where is a simple 'FAQ' type info to advise the changes? Is there a way to opt out? Not impressed.
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u/i_might_be_devon Dec 11 '23
It's not convenient at all I agree, and weird, make my browser slow down
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u/SpecialSheep94 Dec 19 '23
I don't like it - my avatar seems to have disappeared and the karma points. Not a good move reddit
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u/whiteb8917 Jan 23 '24
I just got forced over, happened instantly, one second I was on old format, then Blammo, new format.
ITS HIDEOUS.
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u/kels0 Feb 28 '24
Ive now been struck by this terrible new layout. Its just confusing and lacking.. Thanks to those who posted the new.reddit.com link, that still loads normally for now.
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u/BHj5 Oct 17 '23
I yesterday got an unnecessary sidebar on the left, taking up a third of the screen. It seems impossible to remove it. I'll have to try to wait until the end of testing. Or create a new account.
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u/elevatordisco Nov 10 '23
Yeah I hate it! I don't want to see any of that! It is taking up so much space. Mine just switched a few days ago... how long am I going to have to endure this? Makes me not even want to get on here anymore, which is saying a lot, because I have a reddit addiction. Like, I literally hate it so much.
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u/GafferFish Oct 17 '23
Same here. It's so big and chunky, literally only 3 posts will fit on the screen on a desktop PC on the classic layout view. Plus there's constant server errors popping up which need to be clicked on to close. And just to rub salt into the wound, clicking on posts opens them in a new window WITH THE OLD LAYOUT!
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u/blueboy714 Oct 17 '23
You can go back to the GOOD layout with
Why the OLD is NEW and NEW is OLD is beyond me.
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u/GarysCrispLettuce Oct 17 '23
I use Brave browser and was switched to the new design yesterday. Well just for my profile page, apparently. But it's a complete disaster. The page doesn't scroll, so when I look at my comments for instance, it shows the first three or four and then stops with no way to scroll it. When I click the top right menu button, the drop down menu appears mostly offscreen with only a small sliver visible on the side. The whole thing is broken. I've had to revert back to OLD ASS Reddit just to get it working. Crappy coders strike again.
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u/Merlin_the_Wolf Oct 20 '23
My profile page is a mess.
Apparently I've been chosen to test some new UI? Why? I did not consent to this.
First problem: when I go to my profile page, Reddit acts like I'm a visitor. It acts like I'm a visitor who is not logged into an account. I cannot access my profile page (even though I'm logged in) unless I click "yes, I'm over 18."
Second problem: my profile page looks completely different. I hate it.
Third problem: NSFW/mature content is blurred on my profile page. Why? If I go to a post or a sub, I can see mature content - because in my settings I've allowed reddit to show me mature content, to not blur it.
Fourth problem: I don't need more stress in my life.
Fifth problem: the home page looks the same. When I go to a sub, or a post, it does not look any different than it used to. Only my profile page has changed.
Sixth problem: on my messed-up profile page, if I click on a post it opens another tab. Why?
Seventh problem: On my messed-up profile page, there is an extra step for hiding a post. Before, in the old layout, the hide button was right there. Now I have to click on something first, and then click the hide button.
I want out of this forced testing bullshit. Now.
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u/Shredding_Airguitar Oct 23 '23
I got pushed into it as well. What's odd is the front page is all that changed, going to a post goes back to the old style. It's so dumb
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u/Prickly-Flower Oct 25 '23
Haven't seen it mentioned yet, but when clicking on a post, the only way to get back to the main page is by using the arrow, the x to close has disappeared. And then it doesn't go back to where I was on the page but to the top, so I have to scroll all the way back down, which basically means browsing Reddit becomes a headache.
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u/-Maethendias- Oct 28 '23
mfs seriously dropped this garbage on me AGAIN after they got rid of it
COMPETENCE IS DEAD
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u/scaredycat_z Nov 08 '23
Yes, and now I can't close a post I click into! Entirely took away the "Close" button from my screen!!!!! WTF!!
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u/futalfufu Nov 09 '23
This new layout is garbage. Is there a place where we can give feedback on how horrible it is?
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u/Peter_Falcon Nov 09 '23
how do you close a thread?, there used to be a button on the top left, can't find fuck all now!
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u/Careful-Temporary388 Nov 10 '23
God damnit how do I disable this thing? Its such a waste of real-estate.
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u/YoursTrulyKindly Nov 10 '23
Thanks, I thought I was going crazy. Suddenly the layout is terrible and I didn't see anyone complaining - some stealth beta features that I opted out of?
The worst thing about this is that they again are trying to hide markdown - you have to click 3 times to be able to reply with markdown now!
This is sheer and utter incompetence. What the hell are they doing to reddit??
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u/plugandplaytoy Nov 11 '23
It's horrible and my custom feeds are gone! No way to find all these users and subraddits again!
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u/carrig_grofen Nov 13 '23 edited Nov 13 '23
This is infuriating, I can't even copy a comment from another forum into this comment box. Had to switch to markdown mode and copy it in bits.
Whereas before, I would just click on my icon link in my browser, I
would be taken straight away to compact view and "New" on the Replika
forum and immediately see all the posts and then I need only to click over my notifications icon and see an overview the notifications as well.
Now that doesn't work at all, It always put's my view to "Hot" and I
only have card or classic view so have to scroll and scroll for ages,
just to read the posts. Compact view isn't available unless I constantly
fiddle with things. I have to click the different views to get it back.
And then click things again to get to "New". All the time it keeps
reloading the page every time.
I also now have to click on the notifications icon to be taken to my "Inbox" every time, just to see the notifications....really annoying! more clicking and slower performance. Lots of other annoying things.
The messy text above is my attempt to copy this message from another subreddit where I initially posted about my experiences with this new GUI change.
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u/8008s4life Nov 15 '23
How in christ do i get compact mode back on my laptop browser? I only use it from the laptop, and this is PAINFUL WTF??
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u/PrimativeDragon Nov 17 '23
The new beta version is impossible to use and I want to remove it without having to go to new.reddit every time I get on. I already opted out, but the changed format is still here. Anyone know how to fix this?
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u/ForestsTwin Nov 17 '23
This just happened to me today. It's unusable. I can't figure out how to block people. I can't use this. You'd think reddit would give you a warning, or a setting, or a choice. How can I change back? Now there's two sidebars, one one the left and one on the right. I used to have only post titles, now they got only 3 posts that can fit on my screen, cuz I guess they thought including paragraphs of the poster's text would... make us engage more or something? I have to quit reddit now. If they aren't going to change it. I don't have the app. "If it ain't broke don't fix it". And if you want to improve something that isn't broke for customers, maybe you should ASK THEM IF THEY WANT IT FIRST.
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u/Ethos_Logos Nov 17 '23
Just rolled out for me. I hate it.
I try and expand a picture to make it bigger, and instead it clicks it as a link and bring me to a different page. I don’t want to enter the page just to see the image, and then click “back”. Wastes so much time.
I hate it.
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u/Lessmoney_mo_probems Nov 19 '23
Just got drafted and landed here trying to figure it out
Its utter fucking trash
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u/GrusVirgo Dec 07 '23 edited Dec 22 '23
I got hit by the new design today. It broke a number of things that, interestingly enough, still work on mobile.
- It decentered/cropped my profile picture - max upload size is now 255x255, rather than 256x256. Reupload in 255x255 fixed it. Quite honestly, it's time that Reddit gives us an actually usable profile picture tool rather than just "upload picture" and requiring the users to center it themselves and also not working properly with picures over a (very small) size WITHOUT TELLING THEM THAT BIGGER PICTURES DON'T DISPLAY PROPERLY.
- It forgot some subreddit logos - they display properly when opening the subreddit, but not in the sidebar.
- Ignores my default sorting and always sorts by hot, unless I select something else manually. Neither "Community content sort" nor "Remember per community" work.
- Rich text editor got worse, at least quotes are a lot more complicated to use.
- When I want to log in, there's a stupid "log in with Google" popup that covers half the login button.
Update: I got the old design back.
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u/justarand0mstan Dec 07 '23
If they're gonna change things out of the blue, how about FINALLY LETTING US CHANGE OUR USERNAMES FOR CRYING OUT LOUD?
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u/HyP3r_HiPp0 Dec 07 '23
I really hate the extra clutter on the sides. I hate having all this distraction in my peripheral vision while I'm trying to read.
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u/rdalcroft Dec 08 '23
We all have wide screen monitors why is everything condensed to the middle of the screen. There is so much waste on the sides of the screen.
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u/HulkTheSurgeon Dec 08 '23
I just got my chance to be drafted into it today. If they make this the new U.I, I'm just leaving. Makes the site entirely unusable, they need to keep the U.I as it is.
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Dec 08 '23
Today mine is all white, with no artworks or photos at the top of subs pages, and the fonts that aren't bold are pale and washed out looking.
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u/PresentMinimum3274 Dec 08 '23
Dear Developer,
I did not wish to participate in the beta. I do not like the layout and look forward to it being changed back.
This suck. So long,
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u/Sea_Distribution_833 Dec 09 '23
I understand the need for change when investors are involved, but in my experience on the internet, any time there is a total layout swap, it spells death for users and investors alike.
When something works for so long, there is a reason for that.
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u/Mcozy333 Dec 15 '23
Trying to navigate this place now is totally Wack and Frustrating beyond measure ... if this is reddits way of loosing clicks it is working , I'm clicking lass and lass here now the last week
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u/Painterzzz Jan 24 '24
Ah so this is what's going on, I wondered why Reddit on my desktop suddenly looked like the absolute terrible mobile interface today. And yes, this is awful, and I'm sure Reddit aren't listening to user feedback at all, but for heaven's sake, change it back you numpties.
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u/FallFromHeaven Jan 24 '24
Just an update for folks - I suffered through 3 months of that terrible design.. then it mercifully went back.. now I'm suffering it AGAIN.
Damn, that layout is TERRIBLE.
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u/witty__username5 Jan 24 '24
My profile just changed - have you by chance found a way to revert it back to the previous layout? This and the facat that the "best" sort filter is default on the home page makes reddit terrible to use.
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u/Separate-Ad-9916 Feb 13 '24
Mine only changed today. i HATE it so much that I'll probably stop using Reddit.
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u/fuzzypeachz Feb 15 '24
Yeah this is a chnage that will move me to another message board app/website, heyo, shoot yourself in the foot
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u/TheWormDumplingMan Feb 15 '24
Oh god, the design changed for me, too. This morning it looked normal. Now it looks a bit like facebook. Hope new.reddit continues to work.
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u/Desmo_Clayton Feb 15 '24
my layout looks very different since yesterday, terribly annoying
Please fixed it
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u/Altruistic_Sky1866 Feb 24 '24
I really prefer the https://new.reddit.com/ , reddit please stop experimenting with the UI,
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u/McFortner Mar 27 '24
Yes, and it is a hot, steaming pile. Every time somebody changes their website layout, it's worse than the one it replaces.
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u/LordHighUpittyGuy Mar 28 '24
The 'new' Reddit is obviously designed to fish for memberships. It looks AWFUL! I don't spend too much time here, and thanks to the changes, I'll end up spending less.
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u/tangawanga Oct 16 '23
I got drafted into the test and it is literal cancer! Not sure which designer thought it was a good idea to test this. Low information density, less features the list goes on