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About fucking time. It would be nice to have Old Reddit Redirect, so I don't have to put up with that crappy redesign whenever I need to Google something.
old.reddit.com days' are coming to an end. You can't really squeeze the last drop of ad revenue on the old UI.
Shame because the new UI is objectively shit. Autoplaying videos, less dense UI and worst of all, RES works best with old UI. I didn't need to touch my mouse to navigate Reddit all these years thanks to RES. Now, thanks to Spez, he has broken something that didn't need to be fixed.
It's not only shit, it's incredibly slow. On my Thinkpad T480, the CPU fans immediately turn on and get really loud when browsing on the new Reddit UI. Those of us who knew the internet pre-"web 2.0" know that it's complete nuts for a website to bring a 4 cores/8 threads CPU to its knees just to render mostly text and a few pics, we're not even talking about sophisticated content with videos.
The reason is that the new UIs are full of Javascript which does way more than just adding a bunch of effects (which normally even a Pentium 4 should be able to handle with no issues): tracking. They're doing a bunch of stuff like collecting every few milliseconds the locations where you tap, how long you're staying on a given page, "eye-tracking" (basically building heatmaps of where you "look" the most on a given web page so that they can decide whether to show some ads there etc..), a bunch of A/B tests for marketing purposes + the associated data collection that is done on your browser etc... and that's what's wasting your CPU cycles.
Any ETA on when the old UI will be retired?
I'm guessing I'm not alone in this but the redesign + API restrictions are why I'm here on Lemmy