Reddit search was incomplete but powerful, and a major factor in my choosing the platform over alternative, particularly Ello (no effective search) or G+ (none until earlier this year).
Most key: searching for my own posts.
Other factors: CSS, markdown. Notifs are middlin'. Fostering conversation: utterly broken.
Nuking my sub's CSS in the new version is among unpardonable offenses.
Looks like the reddit servers are just slow, but the old reddit doesn't need to load so many JS files to become usable. Even if it is only halfway loaded you can already interact with it.
Because of the amount of JS files that the new reddit needs, it's not even a contest.
Look at the unique pageview charts, it seems like old.reddit.com is just a bit higher than new reddit but not by much.
This user[1] posted a graph[2] from a much larger subreddit. They didn't mention which but they moderate quite a few subreddits but I think this one if from /r/Minecraft.
Your screenshot shows old reddit. Either you're using a link to old.reddit.com, or (like me) your user account has set the option to always use old reddit.
Try opening your link in an incognito browser.
If I go to the link posted above [1], I first see a much narrower window (careful, don't click on the black area to the sides, or you'll go back to the subreddit, the whole thing is basically a modal dialog now). Then I see one single comment, and it itself is half cut off. Below it I see a bunch of "related" content: https://imgur.com/a/tyaheDC
To see deeper any any thread, I have to click a link which doesn't expand the comments but takes me to its own link thread. To get back I need to use the browser back button and my context is lost.
They do not want users to engage with existing comments at all. The first comment is half cut off. The rest are hard to get to. They appear to want you to consume the posted content, and maybe post your own comment if you like.
i.reddit.com is way more basic than old.reddit.com. It's intended for ancient cell phones or the slowest of slow connections. It's actually pretty impressive that it works at all these days.
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