Definitely experience the constant loading problems. Honestly good to hear I'm not the only one. I assumed it was something they didn't like about my setup.
Since the redesign, my Reddit use has dropped off a cliff.
I notice that when browsing Reddit day-to-day I am constantly getting either "Sorry, we couldn't load posts for this page" on a subreddit page or "Cannot load comments" on a thread page. This isn't just happening occasionally, it's been happening daily over the course of weeks.
There's been a lot of hate for the "new" Reddit design but outside of the actual usability of the site, there seems to be some huge problems from a technical perspective.
I've tried multiple browsers, internet connections,VPN enabled/disabled and it's always the same. I now just use https://old.reddit.com, but I'd be interested to hear if other people have the same experience?
It boggles my mind that a redesign could be implemented so poorly on such a popular site.
Reddit also fails to load aporoximately 20% of the time, too. I figured it was growing pains, but they've not changed a thing. They designed it, they're done, and they're really not interested in what the users think.
Reddit was ruined with the redesign. Its buggy and slow. I get stuck on a loading screen on mobile for about 20 seconds before the page loads and half the time just shows an error. The desktop version also keeps logging me out randomly and forgetting I opted out of the redesign.
New reddit: takes what feels like a minute to fully load while my laptop's fans are working overtime, and even once it's fully loaded it only shows a fraction of the comments. It is also necessary for them to use a tiny font so they can even fit anything on the screen, because they insist on having 60% of the screen as empty space. If you try to zoom into the page so you don't have to squint reading a tiny font, the experience becomes really horrible.
So true! The worst was when the "New Reddit" interface was launched. The site was almost unusable and I often had to refresh the page multiple times for the message thread to maybe load.
I just experienced a site overload/offline error a few days ago (not Super Bowl). It's really unacceptable for a site of its age and presence on the Internet.
Agreed. I don't mind the new layout but it is still amazing that after years of this new layout that at least once a week I go to reddit and it can't load comments. I'm not a developer so maybe there is a valid reason but as a user it just seems ridiculous that the site can't do its main function reliably.
Honestly boggles my mind how unusable and slow the redesign is. But I don't think it matters anymore, seems like most Reddit users just use the app these days which is equally bad design wise but runs ok at least.
The redesign is terrible. It looks nicer, but ultimately it behaves terribly. It loses connection with reddit all the time, makes my PC fan speed up to a volume that not even games can achieve, and is downright just behaviorally bizarre. Videos stop and start randomly, or refuse to buffer. Images are too big and stick out of frames sometimes, things take 10+ seconds to load even if the rest of the page loaded just fine.
I switch the URL to old.reddit and poof! Performance problems are magically gone.
I’ve had much better experience after I switched back to the classic reddit page. Still occasionally has issues. But not nearly as bad as the default page. Maybe once every couple of weeks, I’ll get the reddit is broken page for a minute or two.
They are not handling the load well, and it is getting bad enough to discourage me from commenting there. It was annoying but livable when it was just slow loading when reading, but lately it has progressed to errors when trying to post. That is a lot more annoying because then you've either got to give up on the post, or save a copy somewhere to try again later.
It's also losing the status of inboxes. That is, it will show the orange envelope meaning you've got a message (typically someone replied to one of your comments). You then click that to see the reply, and it just sits there not responding. If you give up and go elsewhere, it often has marked your messages as read, even though you never saw them.
I'd prefer if posting and dealing with the inbox were given high priority, even if it meant more "you broke reddit" messages when I try to read stories.
Reddit's been running pretty awful in general lately.
Ever since the UI update the website loses track of if I'm logged in from page to page. Some pages load in the old format, some in the new. It's completely ridiculous.
Yesterday I tried to visit https://reddit.com/r/gaming and received an infinite loading indicator through multiple refreshes until I gave up. It felt like loadshedding where they were encountering an issue and decided to drop my traffic, which is not a good UX.
Since the redesign, my Reddit use has dropped off a cliff.
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