Reddit’s Redesign
Why do we care so much about design? Reddits success in spite of completely eschewing designers should prove design is over valued. So to does Craigslist. Japanese websites are proof by example that this is strictly a cultural phenomena. Why does Western society seem to value form over function so much?How much is "good design" codeword for dumbing the site down as much as possible and making it shiny enough for people who get distracted by car keys? Reddit doesn't exactly have the learning curve of a command line tool or a rocket plane. Maybe I'm elitist, but if you can't understand reddit as it is maybe you're an idiot?Call me an old man waving around my cane, but I say to hell with the redesign. Give me my plain old links in their plain old default blue underline and my mod-hacked-together css+bots. The internet need not anymore "progress for the sake of progress".