The redesign completely kills my 12-inch MacBook by freezing Safari’s UI for a good second or two while it’s loading all that shit JavaScript.

I can load actual apps faster than their content-focused website.

Reddit went all-in on React for a content-based site, a fool's errand you'd expect of novice web developers.

Same. I’m having similar although not nearly as bad issues with the new gmail.

However reddit is so bad that unless they improve the performance I’ll likely just stop using it

I use old.reddit.com for now but if they remove it I’ll just stop using the site. I only use it for procrastination anyway so not a big loss.

You can switch it off. And supposedly they will support the old design for a long time.

> supposedly they will support the old design for a long time

Just like supposedly they weren’t gonna do the user-hostile stuff described in this thread?

old.reddit.com

I like the new design a lot, everything is consistent and easier to read now. Opening links in a popover is nice (although a little laggy) because I don't lose my scroll position after closing the page, which eliminates needing the Reddit Enhancement Suite extension. The page is also responsive now, previously the side bar would restrict the comment area.

I hope you are aware that you can opt out of the redesign.

For now.

Yeah I am. But im not always logged in (such as on my work laptop), and the redesign blasts ads and is much less useable than the old design.

Install a redirector extension (https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect) to redirect reddit.com url to old.reddit.com

Oh hey thats a good idea, thank you!

Bah, just be an API endpoint and let everyone use their own client. The only value in Reddit is the centralization and organization of users and subreddits.

Where's the money in that?

I’d pay $1/year for that.

You can use old.reddit.com

redesign in terms of looks or tech wise? I like the new design