- Everything's so smaller now
- All avatars are a tiny square (but uses their original, circular shape if you go to the page where you can view the avatar fully)
- "OP" flair like Reddit (also looks like reddit), as opposed to "Creator" flair which felt more original
- The post links and fediverse icons are now next to the username as opposed to the upvote-downvote-share icon
- The vaporwave theme makes the "subscribe", "create a post" buttons more rounded... they look just like Reddit's "subscribe", "create a post" buttons!
The new update is causing the grad to look more like reddit lmfao
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AlbigensianGhoul 13 points 3 years ago
I miss darkly-red actually having red bits. Until it's back I guess I can suffer in i386 hell.
EuthanatosMurderhobo 5 points 3 years ago
Now now, conservative=)
iridaniotter 11 points 3 years ago
I just changed my zoom to 120% lol
EuthanatosMurderhobo 10 points 3 years ago
Maybe I've been conditioned by years of YouTube shedding it's skin, but I don't have strong feelings about this one way or another.
ShiningWing 8 points 3 years ago
I don't really understand all the complaints about the text size, it seems about in line with most other sites now instead of being oddly larger
I also really appreciate there being a bit less padding on the posts because barely any posts could fit in a single screen before, it feels a lot more sensible now
Using more width now is also really nice, it was kinda silly how small it crunched down even on relatively small monitors
Alunyanners 8 points 3 years ago
Just because we're trying to be open-source/fediverse equivalent of Reddit means that we must copy absolutely everything from Reddit, yes? Honestly wish the devs gave you the option to go back to the original, more cozier, comfier UI (when you wanted) than forcing down compact, corporate-like UI onto all of us.
ShiningWing 1 point 3 years ago
I didn't say that we should copy everything from reddit, just that I like most of these particular changes (though I agree on the "OP" flair change being unnecessary), I find the denser layout a lot more usable on desktop without being quite as compact as old reddit
thefreepenguinalt 7 points 3 years ago
just use i386 theme
- opposes roundrect worship
- nice color scheme
- doesn't distort ascii art
i also like how yall made the metadata more compact :) i was kinda being annoying in that rantpost, thx for adding themes back
NothingButBits 6 points 3 years ago
I like the changes, it felt the website was designed for mobile only. The space can still be optimized for 1080p, there's still a lot of empty space on the sides. But maybe make the buttons and avatars a bit bigger?
darkcalling 4 points 3 years ago
I appreciate all the work but yes, this is truly awful and unusable. My eyes are straining from how small things are. Text should be bigger, should fill more of the page, etc.
Even if you're going for that awful new mobile friendly layout all sites like wikipedia, etc are foisting these days where all content is shoved into the center in a square as if we still live in a 4:3 aspect CRT world, the text, icons, preview images, etc needs em-biggifying (though a reasonable amount, new reddit for example goes too far in the other direction).
Alunyanners 4 points 3 years ago
Yeah tell me about it, this place looked way cozier and comfier with bigger texts from before. People here are complaining about big texts like scrolling a little more below's gonna cost them half their life. Jesus Christ.
darkcalling 4 points 3 years ago
I don’t mind compactness. I just dislike how it looks here.
horizontal space is nowhere near fully utilized, the empty space is wasted. If you’re going to use smaller text with the excuse you can fit more info this is undercut by leaving all this space on the sides eerily empty.
If the screen real estate issue is fixed the smaller text needs something to be a bit more readable. A 1pt font size increase, shadows/outlines, I don’t know I’m not a UI expert I just feel this is for me worse than the old one.
This is coming from someone who exclusively used old Reddit by the way. I also don’t mind the old look (compare hex bear right now to this site in terms of screen utilization, readability, etc).
Needs tweaking.
SapphicFemme 2 points 3 years ago
People bashing on accessibility friendly designs, are probably the same types who won't use alt text on images.
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SapphicFemme 2 points 3 years ago
It is not accessibility friendly design, smaller text is harder for some to see. I don't appreciate your snarky reply.
Jonathan12345 1 point 3 years ago
I like the roundedness, but I wish there was a way to make it bigger. edit: 120% size makes everything cozier.
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I definitely prefer the older version. I wonder how difficult it would be to add it as an optional theme
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