Like legit, chapo.chat feels so much smoother to traverse with, and it's aesthetics are so much more pleasing to the eye to look at. New reddit UI is absolute eye cancer to look at. Of course there are bugs and certain issues, but seriously good fucking job, devs. Also, more evidence that worker co-ops work.
Quick edit, but my title is inaccurate. THANK THE LEMMY DEVS FOR THE UNDERLYING TECH. As Beatnik said in the comments, the Chapo Devs also did a huge amount of work on the front end experience as well as other important functionalities, so THANK THEM AS WELL.
as an actual answer: reddit jerks themselves off about design principles and the average stupid user and lots of different experts and ideas, while anyone who doesn't do that and just wants to build something useful does something like the older reddit design
Adding to this: New reddit was designed for mobile first with desktop as an afterthought. Old reddit was the other way round.
(Although if you use reddit on Android then 3rd party apps are usually better than the official one anyway, so even with a "mobile first" design it isn't great)
Ha, joke's on them, I use the desktop version of old reddit on my phone
Yes, it's a thousand times better. Also, RIF is better as well.
have you ever tried apollo app
They clearly never ate their own dogfood.