The Cost of JavaScript in 2019
With their redesign and a few other choices, Reddit has gone from one of the most beautiful places on the web to the second most hostile UX that I put up with.<p>I don't want to "GET NEW REDDIT" as I'm urged to in the top left of every page because I don't want a card-based layout. The whole reason I and so many others left Digg for Reddit to begin with was for a highly skimmable, information-dense site!<p>Similarly, I don't want to install a mobile app. The page worked fine on mobile when I got my first iPod Touch a decade ago. Why do I have to see a huge USE APP button in the nav bar and then lose another 20% of the page at the bottom to a See Reddit In section at the bottom that's also urging me to install a native app?<p>Infinite scroll actually slows down my browsing experience too, since it no longer loads as many entries at a time and I have to keep waiting for pagination.