Nuking the old.reddit option would likely be the thing that gets me to drop the last few subs for good (I've already stopped visiting the KIA2 sub long ago).
I still find it jarring everytime I open the current Reddit UI off of a search.
If they get rid of old.reddit I will stop using it completely. Nu reddit is one of the most poorly optimized, poorly coded messes I've ever seen. It takes so much longer to load even with adblockers on, and for what? So it can look like Facebook? Not to mention if I log in on another computer it manages to "forget" that I opted out of the redesign, so I have to go into the settings every time I do that.
KIA2 might be the sub with most shadowbanned users, can't see at least a third of all comments on posts, makes me wonder how many posts are left never seen
Progressive culture pushing change for change sake definitely sets the stage for constant updates but I think the answer is far more mundane.
Corporations are filled to the brim with useless people. People with inflated job titles and salaries to match it. They have to do SOMETHING to feel important and UI changes are an outlet for that. Someone who finally gets bored of surfing tiktok all day looks for something to do. Or the overseer of project managers of user experience wants to pad their resume for a career upgrade but can't really do anything calls a meeting and demands that we HAVE to modernize the interface to be more inclusive.
I haven't been tracking it closely but I assume that as time goes on, UIs are moving away from words to keep to with illiteracy and globalization.
This is a bingo. You justify your existence and advance your career by solving problems. If there are no problems to solve, you invent them. I see that shit every day.
No Product Manager ever wormed their way into an executive management position by saying of their product "it works pretty good and customers love it, so let's just leave it at that and just fix issues as they arise"
If they treat it like a hobby project there may be a "coolness" factor at play
If they're hiring programmers maybe the programmers want to justify their salaries
Downside of a small company is it's possible to be "done" with the single product that company produces with no ambition to do anything else. If you're the owner and making money that's great because you can "sit on the beach"; if you're an employee it's not.
I'm surprised nobody else mentioned their stated reasoning: They can't easily focus on bugfixes and improvements when there are two codepaths in production simultaneously. They want all sites on a unified style and code, regardless of what that style is.
There's so many beneficial changes they could make to the actual way it works.
Like add a "conversation" sort mode that is +1 for upvotes and -0.5 for downvotes and make it the default. Boom, you've instantly improved the quality of debate a hundredfold.
People that only want to hear an echo chamber can turn it back. But instead we get profile pictures... on an semi-anonymous forum.
Isn't the Kotaku inaction.win domain independently owned? Doesn't it also run an older version of the scored software? I'm pretty sure there is a certain degree of autonomy.
I see all of the various scored communities I follow through the main scored interface. I don't visit any individual domain, they're all intermingled on the main page. I just assumed everything was on the same server/farm.
On The Donald I get a "set a profile picture upload your own mugshot to the FBI" prompt every login, and logins aren't the same token as kotakuinaction2.win anymore (logging into one doesn't log into the other). Settings pages have lots of differences with community styling off.
Whatever it is the UI instance seems to be more than just a stylesheet.
I was doing that until KiA2 was forced into their UI. Now it gets its own tab since I can still get the old UI that way. All the forced empty space on either side is just so ugly.
Nuking the old.reddit option would likely be the thing that gets me to drop the last few subs for good (I've already stopped visiting the KIA2 sub long ago).
I still find it jarring everytime I open the current Reddit UI off of a search.
Don't forget the mandatory popup of "Open this page in the reddit app?" spam if clicking through on your phone.
If they get rid of old.reddit I will stop using it completely. Nu reddit is one of the most poorly optimized, poorly coded messes I've ever seen. It takes so much longer to load even with adblockers on, and for what? So it can look like Facebook? Not to mention if I log in on another computer it manages to "forget" that I opted out of the redesign, so I have to go into the settings every time I do that.
KIA2 might be the sub with most shadowbanned users, can't see at least a third of all comments on posts, makes me wonder how many posts are left never seen
Progressive culture pushing change for change sake definitely sets the stage for constant updates but I think the answer is far more mundane.
Corporations are filled to the brim with useless people. People with inflated job titles and salaries to match it. They have to do SOMETHING to feel important and UI changes are an outlet for that. Someone who finally gets bored of surfing tiktok all day looks for something to do. Or the overseer of project managers of user experience wants to pad their resume for a career upgrade but can't really do anything calls a meeting and demands that we HAVE to modernize the interface to be more inclusive.
I haven't been tracking it closely but I assume that as time goes on, UIs are moving away from words to keep to with illiteracy and globalization.
This is a bingo. You justify your existence and advance your career by solving problems. If there are no problems to solve, you invent them. I see that shit every day.
Pretty much this.
No Product Manager ever wormed their way into an executive management position by saying of their product "it works pretty good and customers love it, so let's just leave it at that and just fix issues as they arise"
But...that's exactly what the consumer wants. Stability coupled with a good experience is how you grow your brand.
But that isn't how a PM grows their career. Principle-Agent problem.
A PM that sabotages a product intentionally is one that should be incapable of having a career. This utterly retarded.
Well I wish they'd hire you to executive management instead of the jokers that actually end up in that role.
No way man, I'm much happier being the guy in the trenches making the products.
Possible reasons:
If they treat it like a hobby project there may be a "coolness" factor at play
If they're hiring programmers maybe the programmers want to justify their salaries
Downside of a small company is it's possible to be "done" with the single product that company produces with no ambition to do anything else. If you're the owner and making money that's great because you can "sit on the beach"; if you're an employee it's not.
I'm surprised nobody else mentioned their stated reasoning: They can't easily focus on bugfixes and improvements when there are two codepaths in production simultaneously. They want all sites on a unified style and code, regardless of what that style is.
There's so many beneficial changes they could make to the actual way it works.
Like add a "conversation" sort mode that is +1 for upvotes and -0.5 for downvotes and make it the default. Boom, you've instantly improved the quality of debate a hundredfold.
People that only want to hear an echo chamber can turn it back. But instead we get profile pictures... on an semi-anonymous forum.
Isn't the Kotaku inaction.win domain independently owned? Doesn't it also run an older version of the scored software? I'm pretty sure there is a certain degree of autonomy.
I see all of the various scored communities I follow through the main scored interface. I don't visit any individual domain, they're all intermingled on the main page. I just assumed everything was on the same server/farm.
On The Donald I get a "set a
profile pictureupload your own mugshot to the FBI" prompt every login, and logins aren't the same token as kotakuinaction2.win anymore (logging into one doesn't log into the other). Settings pages have lots of differences with community styling off.Whatever it is the UI instance seems to be more than just a stylesheet.
So it's NOT just me!
I know it's a minor thing, but that "upload profile picture" prompt is SUCH an annoyance.
I was doing that until KiA2 was forced into their UI. Now it gets its own tab since I can still get the old UI that way. All the forced empty space on either side is just so ugly.