More power to them, but I would weigh giving anyone a raise until their web page stops being so user-hostile as to be worse than useless. The web site is so bad that I will go back and add "-reddit -site:reddit.com" to my searches if they've SEO'd the terms I'm looking for, and it comes up on the first page of results. The only reason the site exists now is as the world's largest porn aggregator. I'm sure there's enough money in that to continue to prosper, but I have no use for it any more.
old.reddit.com still works, and if you make an account, you can set old as your default so //reddit.com uses that layout instead
You can only change "Opt out of the redesign" setting on the new site though, which is super annoying, and a pretty big signal https://new.reddit.com/settings/
Call me old fashioned, but the old version of reddit on mobile without mobile styling or any media queries is a far better experience than any Reddit app.
Yeah, website no longer works for me. Clicking load more comments often just me somewhere random. Comment threads have been decapitated by suggestions to other threads.
Using Reddit as a source of information via Google search either:
1. Has half the screen blocked or you have to dismiss modals to use the app
2. Breaks your search flow by switching to the Reddit app
I honestly don't know what they are working on at reddit. The new version still goes down at least once a week and the new site is still lacking basic features like editing multireddits.
And yet they keep adding things like streaming videos and creating cartoon avatars.
They seem heavily involved in taming the darker corners of the site, to make it friendlier to advertisers.
I also found the global moderation surprisingly efficient. I got a few official replies about actions on content I reported. They seem interested in banning really bad users.
They also try really hard to replace private messages with the chat box, which seemingly doesn't work in third party apps. They added badges, friends and other game elements.
Reddit is trying to become a product for advertisers. It's pretty obvious to me.
