They don’t want you to read, they want you to scroll.
It’s like they don’t understand what Reddit fundamentally is: a forum. It isn’t Instagram or Facebook. But they really want it to be because you can fit a lot of ads in that format.
That’s a very good point. Website design made space for ads. I was just browsing yahoo.com on the Wayback machine and it’s amazing how much content you could fit in a 800x600 screen. Now my 4k feels not enough.
They don’t want you to read, they want you to scroll.
It’s like they don’t understand what Reddit fundamentally is: a forum. It isn’t Instagram or Facebook. But they really want it to be because you can fit a lot of ads in that format.
That’s a very good point. Website design made space for ads. I was just browsing yahoo.com on the Wayback machine and it’s amazing how much content you could fit in a 800x600 screen. Now my 4k feels not enough.
It’s clear they want to transform the site into another FB/IG clone, every design decision they’ve taken in years points at it