[osobo]

I'm grateful for this. It's a good incentive to finally quit Reddit completely. It's pretty much down there with Facebook these days but so far I've kept scanning it out of habit. But the new UI is so bloody toxic, I'd rather quit than undergo that.

[technion]

I would have stopped using it ages ago, except for the wasteland the rest of the internet has become. I'm trying to research a medical condition today and made it to page three of Google with nothing but SEO junk and content that is clearly ai generated. Putting Reddit as the site list gave good results.

[dgb23]

Reddit has increasingly become an advertisement target. And I don’t mean official, paid ads.

There are some niche communities that are small enough to retain credibility though.

But yes, SEO spam has become really bad. And the the topic you looked at seems to be one of the worst.

[lrae]

What's so much worse / "toxic" about the new user-interface compared to the default old. one?

[vultour]

Literally everything. I've used it for a grand total of about 3 minutes but from what I remember:

* Defaults to some stupid instagram wall-like view where every link takes half the page

* The whole thing is now centered in a tiny slice of the screen

* Threads open in some weird modal mode where accidentally clicking outside of the content takes you to the previous page

* Opening a direct link on a phone loads like 5 comments, then it continues with endless irrelevant content

* You can't open random subreddits that have been set as NSFW on the phone because "This community is 18+, please open it in the app"

Every time I had the displeasure of interacting with the new design there was some upsetting regression compared to old Reddit.

[SyzygistSix]

The amount of critical thinking has plummeted and the amount of kneejerk judgement has exploded across the site in the last 5 years. Reddit has become the kind of place it used to make fun of ten years ago. It is little better than Twitter at this point, although my engagement with Twitter is limited, as I have never had an account there.

[faeriechangling]

The fact that they have purposefully sabotaged the mobile web interface to block you from reading new comments to push you into installing their data slurping app is up there.

[bigDinosaur]

Infinite scroll is one of the most obvious. Infinite scroll promotes content consumption and not creation and is one of the most addictive patterns in web and app design. It's also less dense and totally irrelevant to what made reddit great, which was niche discussions and not image macros or whatever.

[throwaway6734]

Information density is worse and the design is too heavy/bubbly.