To be fair, this is how people tend to react to change, generally. I remember every time Facebook or YouTube did a site redesign in the early 2010s people were always up in arms.
Same goes for the Reddit redesign. People have been up in arms about new Reddit ever since it’s been introduced.
I’m pretty sure they’d be much less up in arms if the new version didn’t suck as much as it does, though. Same probably holds true for the redesigns that were introduced for Youtube and Facebook.
That’s not an entirely valid comparison in that the other platforms that got redesigned don’t give the end-user the option to still use the old design. Chances are that if they did, a lot of people would stick to the old design there as well.
What else can you expect, when those site redesigns are usually driven by the desire for increased ad revenue. Even idiots who don’t know why, will know it somehow sucks more than it used to. Other times it’s just a blatant removal of loved features. Funny skit aside, the simpler explanation is enshittification.
Yeah I left yahoo when they changed their design. Never went back. Though rebranding Twitter seems a waste of money. He paid 44 billionm, a lot of it for the brand.
He paid for a platform and a brand. Immediately guts the platform’s staff and begins removing features. Loses half its advertising revenue. Then throws out the brand. Probably cuts revenue in half again.
I’ve also works on countless of Ecommerce sites and every time we needed to rebrand or redesign something we would do it in many small iterations as major changes would always get blow backs
To be fair, this is how people tend to react to change, generally. I remember every time Facebook or YouTube did a site redesign in the early 2010s people were always up in arms.
Jake and Amir parodied this well in their “Facebook Redesign” episode.
Same goes for the Reddit redesign. People have been up in arms about new Reddit ever since it’s been introduced.
I’m pretty sure they’d be much less up in arms if the new version didn’t suck as much as it does, though. Same probably holds true for the redesigns that were introduced for Youtube and Facebook.
Most people have knee-jerk reactions to site redesigns, and then begrudgingly accept it sometime after.
The reddit redesign is different, in that most power users, mods, and long-time redditors are still using old.reddit 5+ years later.
That’s not an entirely valid comparison in that the other platforms that got redesigned don’t give the end-user the option to still use the old design. Chances are that if they did, a lot of people would stick to the old design there as well.
The Reddit redesign is so bad, they themselves recommend using their app!
That’s by design. It’s in Reddits bestinterest to drive usage towards their invasive app.
I know that. That’s why people complain about it.
What else can you expect, when those site redesigns are usually driven by the desire for increased ad revenue. Even idiots who don’t know why, will know it somehow sucks more than it used to. Other times it’s just a blatant removal of loved features. Funny skit aside, the simpler explanation is enshittification.
Yeah I left yahoo when they changed their design. Never went back. Though rebranding Twitter seems a waste of money. He paid 44 billionm, a lot of it for the brand.
He paid for a platform and a brand. Immediately guts the platform’s staff and begins removing features. Loses half its advertising revenue. Then throws out the brand. Probably cuts revenue in half again.
What would you do with $44 billion?
that’s because the changes are usually for the worse, not even joking. I use Facebook for a part of my job and their tools are so garbage.
I’ve also works on countless of Ecommerce sites and every time we needed to rebrand or redesign something we would do it in many small iterations as major changes would always get blow backs