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Topic	How was reddit able to ascend to being the 'front page of the internet'?
Epyo 03/06/21 10:12:45 AM #7:	I'm assuming you're talking about new reddit, which is yeah, disgusting. BUT you can go back to https://old.reddit.com , the most usable website of all time, and then, I forget how, but there's some button to click that's like "never show me new reddit ever again". It totally works, they haven't shown me new reddit in many years. It's been like 3-4 years of new reddit, and it doesn't seem like they'll ever get rid of old reddit, because SO many people despise new reddit. ~~~ As for WHY they made new reddit so terrible, I work in web development, and facebook's "React" framework (and similar frameworks) are becoming extremely popular across the industry. You can't get away from them. They're called "SPA frameworks" (or "single page application frameworks"). If you make a website without using one of these, you get looked at weird. And these frameworks greatly encourage this style of website we're talking about, where every website feels like a weird homebrewed new operating system every time, instead of a simple series of webpages. Ironically, I don't think these frameworks are becoming popular because people like the results... Instead, they're becoming popular because it's more fun to write code this way. Developers love to write little interactive pop ups and layers and buttons, and the tutorials for these frameworks don't really teach you any other way to build a website. Seriously, I talk to colleagues and ask them "can we please just build a usable site this time" and they're like "noooooo I will quit, it's way too much fun to build them this way". --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! <cite>Epyo posted [p:951406034] in How was re... [t:79333562]...</cite> <quote>I'm assuming you're talking about new reddit, which is yeah, disgusting. BUT you can go back to https://old.reddit.com , the most usable website of all time, and then, I forget how, but there's some button to click that's like "never show me new reddit ever again". It totally works, they haven't shown me new reddit in many years. It's been like 3-4 years of new reddit, and it doesn't seem like they'll ever get rid of old reddit, because SO many people despise new reddit. ~~~ As for WHY they made new reddit so terrible, I work in web development, and facebook's "React" framework (and similar frameworks) are becoming extremely popular across the industry. You can't get away from them. They're called "SPA frameworks" (or "single page application frameworks"). If you make a website without using one of these, you get looked at weird. And these frameworks greatly encourage this style of website we're talking about, where every website feels like a weird homebrewed new operating system every time, instead of a simple series of webpages. Ironically, I don't think these frameworks are becoming popular because people like the results... Instead, they're becoming popular because it's more fun to write code this way. Developers love to write little interactive pop ups and layers and buttons, and the tutorials for these frameworks don't really teach you any other way to build a website. Seriously, I talk to colleagues and ask them "can we please just build a usable site this time" and they're like "noooooo I will quit, it's way too much fun to build them this way". --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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