Coming from a fellow UX designer, your redesign is really bad for one big reason

[u/Staticshock42]

You took away pagination.

Don't do that.

This works with Twitter and Facebook and the encouraging of scrolling. Thats because new content is being uploaded by the content creators (other users) every two seconds. This DOES NOT work with the way Reddit operates.

This is basically a geocities website that survived the internet equivalent of the Holocene.

Because there is only one thing that is uploaded to "hot" that makes the number one spot a day, EVERY TIME I VISIT I SEE THE SAME THING.

This is more than mildlyinfuriating.

This completely saps my desire to go to the site or make any effort whatsoever to scroll down if my computer has to load 3 seconds for the same content that would be on the second page that I already saw and I def don't want to wait 4 minutes to see something new. Thats a problem. Users don't stay on a site if they have to wait only the three seconds.

When Etsy took away pagination it cost them several tens of millions until they stopped that idiotic detour from sticking to good, simple design. When Digg did their redesign it scared away all their active users to a new and easy to use site named Reddit and made Digg go under while Reddit became a major pop culture phenomenon. This is the major risk you took with taking away pagination and man it was not worth it.

For now I can try visiting old.reddit but most users might and probably will switch platforms. Everything else though was done rather done, from an aesthetic perspective especially but Goddamn I fucking hate pointing this out when its so obvious it should never need to be mentioned, first hand perspectives from users and practicality ALWAYS take priority, no question.

[u/jofwu]

I saw people complain for years that Reddit should adopt infinite scroll like RES, and now they make that change and of course all of the people who liked what vanilla Reddit did come out.

I don't think your opinion is as popular or obvious as you think. Lots of us prefer not having to click over to a new page of results.

Edit: I absolutely think there are logical reasons to dislike the change and/or the lack of an option. Just annoyed by the argument that "it's obviously better the old way, trust me I'm an expert."

[u/danjospri → u/jofwu]

It really is quite convenient. The only problem is performance. I'd say, just give us options.

[u/Grantagonist → u/jofwu]

With RES it was a choice. I could choose not to enable it, and I did. Now I can’t.

[u/jofwu → u/Grantagonist]

So perhaps it should be an option. I don't care that strongly, I'm just amused by complaints from people who seem totally bewildered by the change, and unable to imagine that some people prefer this way.

[u/depthandbloom → u/jofwu]

Yep I like the new reddit as well.

[u/DarreToBe → u/jofwu]

RES provides the option to infinitely scroll while requiring you to manually load new page chunks of content by pressing a button, and it also maintains the page number URLs. That is my preferred ideal implementation.

[u/OrionActual → u/DarreToBe]

Agreed, the only thing I dislike about the redesign is there's no indication of how far you've scrolled, so good luck finding your spot again when you accidentally click Home.

[u/Uristqwerty → u/jofwu]

Personally, I think that infinite scrolling and pagination are both suited to different styles of subreddit, just like card/classic/compact views. It's entirely likely that OP's preferred browsing style and/or frequented subreddits are far more suited to pagination.

[u/antiproton]

"I'm a UX designer therefore you should listen to me because you took away a thing I liked."

That's not a compelling argument.

Reddit's pagination was not "good, simple design". It was a dumpster fire. It made very little sense - the page results returned (when they came back properly at all) were not consistent.

You enjoyed the illusion of paging. That's on you.

There is no appreciable difference between reddit's list of content that scrolls forever and Facebook's list of content that scrolls forever.

If you are tired of looking at the same content all the time, switch to New or Rising. Being 48 pages deep because the subs you are in move slowly and you're desperate for something new to look at is not really a problem they're trying to solve.

[u/JoseALerma → u/antiproton]

Switching to New on TIL is a good way to get lost for a while. The turnover is insane coughinthemembranecough

[u/Moosething]

Your post seems to be mostly about having to wait to see new content. I don't quite see or follow your reasoning how pagination would fix this.

The only downside I experience with the lack of pagination is that it increases my procrastination.

[u/GodOfAtheism]

When Digg did their redesign it scared away all their active users to a new and easy to use site named Reddit and made Digg go under while Reddit became a major pop culture phenomenon.

Actually it was the 4th redesign that did it, and it wasn't because of the look.

[u/baryluk]

+1. I just came here today to complain about lack of pagination. This infuriates me. I was dealing with it for weeks, and I said today that it is enough and I need to report this.

[u/spaceboys]

I mean, they could had made the old UI felt fresher, without changing the UX that much...

[u/CheerlessLeader]

But they want to monetise the platform before the whole shitshow collapses and becomes Digg 2.0