New Reddit Update is Enshittification
TL;DR Fuck this new Reddit update.
It’s made the mobile app for iPhone worse (I can’t speak to any other version/device). It makes me not want to use the app anymore, while I’ve been using for 16.5 years now (since 2010).
In fact, for the past ~5 years or so, Reddit just keeps getting worse and worse and shittier and shittier with each update, and makes it less and less enjoyable to use— I’m looking at you, “Give Award” feature that unintentionally pop up when I’m trying to upvote, and this feature can’t be disabled (been like this for a few years now), but at least I could double-tap a comment to Upvote it. But now, with this new update, you can’t double click to upvote comments anymore!! And still hit the stupid annoying “Give Award” feature almost every time!!! It’s so frustrating and infuriating and makes me engage with the app less.
Another annoying new feature is, trying to scroll to the end of a post’s comment thread and instead of the post ending at the bottom, it just starts with a new feature called “Trending on Reddit” that makes it so there’s now an infinite scroll at would be, should be, the end of the post. I don’t fucking want an infinite scroll when I’m in a post— that’s why I’m in a post instead of just be scrolling on my home page.
There’s more annoying shit (like the fact that it took me way too long to write this because it wouldn’t allow me to relocate my cursor to fix errors like it normally would…), but I can’t think/write anymore because I’m already heated.
I’m disabled and I have so many functional limitations and so few things I am capable of engaging with, and Reddit is one of the only things I’ve been able to use reliably with my physical limitations. And now Reddit has fucked it up. Whenever that one chick took over a few years ago, it’s really gone down hill.