DISQUS

The reddit blog: Long overdue update

  • DaveyC · 8 months ago
    Suddenly I have the urge to post reactionary and poorly thought out posts and re-post content from other social media sites!
  • Medela · 8 months ago
    I liked your comment a lot, don't really know why!
  • ImperfectlyInformed · 8 months ago
    I dig it.
  • Maddzy · 8 months ago
    Loving the new digs
  • brodieface · 8 months ago
    I'm sorry, but this looks way too much like the Remax homepage.
  • AJ · 8 months ago
    You digg?
  • Tia Marie · 8 months ago
    The Reddit alien looks pretty awesome with that shovel.
  • jon · 8 months ago
    THIS IS HORRIBLE
  • pierre · 8 months ago
    Wow, this looks much cooler
  • Doomservice · 8 months ago
    april fools?
  • Tranceboy81 · 8 months ago
    April Fools!
  • Daniel Ha · 8 months ago
    So badass!
  • Sean M · 8 months ago
    Yessssss :-)
  • Jesus · 8 months ago
    Change it back to normal before I have to hang myself I hate this pretty crap *sigh* Stupid april fools jokes!
  • locke_door · 8 months ago
    WHAT SI GOING ON ??? OMG THIS IS INSANE!!! WHO IS WITH ME .. LET'S PETITION AND DISTRIBUTE CANDLES SO THEY CHANGE THEIR MIND LULZ!!!!!!
  • locke_door · 8 months ago
    Been some time since the new changes came in effect. Feel .. so lonely. Cold. Like something just got ripped out, and I didn't know if i really needed it or not.

    But I still miss it.
  • Neumann347 · 8 months ago
    god april fools sucks.
  • CD7 · 8 months ago
    Fuck you!
  • Fuck Doug · 8 months ago
    AHHHHHH. It burns.........................
  • metasack · 8 months ago
    Agreed! Long overdue update is long overdue.
  • locke_door · 8 months ago
    Time still going on. Day still in progress. Never really sure you wanted something, and then you got it. No, that's wrong. Memory isn't working sequentially. Suddenly, world turned upside down.

    Can we make it?
  • Kroko · 8 months ago
    Wow, cool, cool, let's hope it's not april fools, the old look was horrible. This look is... familiar.
  • nigger · 8 months ago
    At first I was like :( but then I was all :D
  • locke_door · 8 months ago
    I had friends, I recognised them. Now they're boxes. Not smilies. : |

    Suddenly I don't fit in here anymore. It's like someone left the window open, but I'm in a submarine.
  • locke_door · 8 months ago
    Things getting a bit blurry. Not sure if I'm still here, or if I'm still in contact.

    Registered to a new site today. But I came back for some reason.
  • masklinn · 8 months ago
    kn0thing, thank science you've provided classic.reddit, but its subreddit links lead to www.reddit, not classic, therefore back to the digg styling :/
  • Jed · 8 months ago
    Try preferences -> display options -> allow reddits to show me custom styles.
  • Charlie · 8 months ago
    LOL!
  • jack · 8 months ago
    My world was turned upside-down and inside out. I didn't know what was happening. Then I saw the calender and what day it was. Bastards.
  • locke_door · 8 months ago
    Had a doughnut for breakfast today. Say that's bad for you, but right now two bads don't give me back what I lost.

    Two bads don't make me secure again.
  • locke_door · 8 months ago
    Things are still dim. But you know what, the birds are still singing.

    Is this mockery, or is this hope ? I can't tell anymore. Will keep you posted.
  • no_dawg · 8 months ago
    http://www.reddit.com/r/aprilfool2009/

    All the April Fools Day pranks in one place.
  • locke_door · 8 months ago
    Just noticed that someone left the toilet without any toilet paper. Hate it when they do that.

    Yet, I just hate so much now. No coincidence.
  • spunge · 8 months ago
    i shit you not i came here about 4 times thinking id put digg.com in the address bar and they'd jsut broken their layout...
  • locke_door · 8 months ago
    Frequency falling, but so is my will to go forward. I just do it for the readers now, yet I know they know things aren't the same, and likely will never be.

    It's like being trapped in an apple without a worm. I can't bear to face the gap.
  • Foster Fosking · 8 months ago
    Lame, lame, lame. Why do you have to slavishly follow other styles. I hate this new 'design'. My 4 year old could do better.
  • locke_door · 8 months ago
    Sometimes holding on is the only alternate, because letting go would relieve me of the misery I earned.

    Misery doesn't come easily. Misery is the product of our work. What do you think?
  • locke_door · 8 months ago
    Serious question. Is it viable to double pack a grocery bag, regardless of the environmental impact?

    We're just doomed anyway. Has it gotten so bad we need feel guilt for the slightest pleasure?
  • Thea · 8 months ago
    Very subtle guys. Are you fans of the current Australian Prime Minister?
  • manniac · 8 months ago
    hahahaha! awesome! this should be called web 3.0
  • Dehavant · 8 months ago
    I'm scared.
  • trip · 8 months ago
    getting there...brighter
  • trip · 8 months ago
    Fa-q
  • Joe · 8 months ago
    April Fool's, of course.
  • Hugh D. · 8 months ago
    Hate it, reminds me of my ex-girlfriend.
  • ubm · 8 months ago
    My eyes can't adjust! At least I will get some work done on this April first.
  • nccwarp9 · 8 months ago
    Horibble, reduce the font of menu bar and spacing... how do I revert to old version.. wait...firefox stylish
  • clouddrone · 8 months ago
    wut?
  • sonar1 · 8 months ago
    Rorschach Journal Entry:
    It was here, the betrayal,
    I am moving back and forth in my chair,
    arms wrapped tightly around myself
    repressing horrible memories
    Suicide is always an option
    I must find someone to downmod
  • Tim · 8 months ago
    Best April Fool ever!
  • omg · 8 months ago
    Funny. Now please give us a button to turn off this crap. It's only a joke when people are laughing, and having to look at this 'design' for an entire day is going to be annoying.
  • sonar1 · 8 months ago
    Rudd
  • smallfried · 8 months ago
    >It's only a joke when people are laughing

    I declare this to be a joke then :)
  • sfzdgxfhfcf · 8 months ago
    Go to your reddit preferences page and uncheck "allow reddits to show me custom styles"

    http://www.reddit.com/prefs/
  • trip · 8 months ago
    fuck ya all
  • buzzhunt · 8 months ago
    what happened, what's the point in aligning with digg? i really hope it's april's fool reddit.
  • omgwtfbbq!!11ONE · 8 months ago
    Now, it's 1 AM and I'm in sort of a sleepy daze right now. I went to digg and checked the top stories then typed in the URL for reddit. It took me a solid 15 seconds to figure out what was wrong.
  • muyuu · 8 months ago
    This is some f*cking cruel April Fools...
  • NoFoolMe · 8 months ago
    Ha ha. Scared me for a minute there.

    Happy April 1st!
  • asdf · 8 months ago
    great.. 24 hours of this bs.
  • r4ge · 8 months ago
    APRIL FOOLS FONT!!!!!!!!!
  • fg · 8 months ago
    Aaahhhhhgggggggg,........my mind!!! Why have you hurt it so?!!
  • whome? · 8 months ago
    Where do I add my 500 friends to upmod / reddig useless stories?
  • Master Mahan · 8 months ago
    Fantastic! I love the new look, and I hope it sticks around for years to come.
  • arse · 8 months ago
    it burns my eyes ....
  • best Clips · 8 months ago
    i thought that digg has purchased reddit. , i am sure it is not the case.
  • Guest · 8 months ago
    I was kicking myself for accidentally accessing digg... and figured this was their prank. I was wondering how the load times had gotten so much faster :P
  • Mark Hutton · 8 months ago
    I hate april fools day!

    I had to block digg.css to prevent myself vomiting on the screen
  • Match Stevens · 8 months ago
    Hey just so you guys know, there's a site that's ripping off your design: digg.com
  • Niffux · 8 months ago
    http://www.reddit.com/prefs/ -> uncheck "allow reddits to show me custom styles". No more gimmicks!
  • Anonymous · 8 months ago
    Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
  • smallfried · 8 months ago
    Very cool change, makes me finally feel at home.
  • Vizeyes · 8 months ago
    I thought reddit had been hit by Conficker...
  • Walton · 8 months ago
    My Gof, well done. That had me fooled for a full 30 seconds. Well played!
  • undefinedparadoxx · 8 months ago
    Lmao@ n00bs who didn't realise this was an april fools gag
  • Simple · 8 months ago
    Is reddit acquired by DIGG ?
  • themillionairecat · 8 months ago
    Poisson d'avril !
  • nsfwdreamer · 8 months ago
    I'm having trouble remembering whether it is the blue or purple that is already clicked.
  • ben · 8 months ago
    had me for about 5 secs there
  • Entertainment King · 8 months ago
    Best April Fools ever.
  • ClassicFun · 8 months ago
    Please Please Please let this be an april's fool!
  • Coffee_Apocalypse · 8 months ago
    Nice April fools joke, you fooled me. It would be nice if that other site would reciprocate, but Reddit Classic would be just too close to perfection, I don't think they could handle it.

    :)
  • no · 8 months ago
    yeah. Hoo. Never saw this one coming.
  • elmer_the_arse · 8 months ago
    there's too much whitespace. I usually scan through the headlines quickly. This is reddit not a children's book teaching them how to read.

    please compress as many items as possible into one screenful
  • whathaveidone · 8 months ago
    QUIERO EST BULLSHIT
  • whathaveidone · 8 months ago
    oh nevermind I get it sheesh.
  • misterfaster · 8 months ago
    lololololol :D dugg
  • Flinthart · 8 months ago
    Siggggh.

    Roll on, April 2nd.
  • maikeru76 aka Dirk Diggler · 8 months ago
    Better than if Digg did it themselves. Peeps at Digg, time for a rehash, reddit-style hahaha!

    Safe and Fun April Fool's to one and all! Ho! Ho! Ho!
  • skimitar · 8 months ago
    Well done - a lot of effort for one day of the year :)
  • MrBabyMan · 8 months ago
    Bravo, Reddit, Bravo!! This is the best looking interface yet! Looks like it's time to switch over to Reddit!
  • tboneplayer · 8 months ago
    "Philistine?" How arrogant. How can having fewer stories in the visible area of the page when it first loads, possibly be an improvement? You Reddigg designers should take a second look at your user base since you obviously don't have a clue about them! Half of us ran screaming from Digg in the first place!
  • Charlie Dancey · 8 months ago
    Anyone feel like doing a **craigslist** makeover for reddit?
  • superjamie · 8 months ago
    You should totally erase all existing /r/reddits and replace them with awesome ones like /r/iPhone and /r/ronpaul.
  • Dekken · 8 months ago
    How long will this last ;_;
  • the inscrutable chicken · 8 months ago
    mildly amusing but can you do the redirect at the bottom of the page to classic.reddit instead?

    thanks very much.
  • George · 8 months ago
    It is almost similar to the Digg Interface..
  • atc · 8 months ago
    You are evil
  • IbnReddit · 8 months ago
    LOL, you jokers!!!!
  • Bear · 8 months ago
    April Fools...I hope...
  • ebt · 8 months ago
    OMGPonies!!!!
  • mudslag · 8 months ago
    How can I digg myself out of this look?
  • KevyB · 8 months ago
    LoL even though its an april joke, such a design change, with a bit different shapes and colouring would be awesome!

    Makes reddit much more pleasing to the eyes.
  • MysteriousCraic · 8 months ago
    Damn, I had to do a double take once the page loaded...thought for sure I had typed in reddit.
  • curbstompery · 8 months ago
    Hmm.. nothing foolish about this at all. I like it!!!
  • thejaysun · 8 months ago
    This better be an April fools joke, this is terrible....just terrible
  • personanongrata · 8 months ago
    reddit became diggit
  • Drew · 8 months ago
    jesus...looks like shit
  • colonstabber · 8 months ago
    God this is hideous.
  • fuck! · 8 months ago
    This is cunt
  • neuromonkey · 8 months ago
    I have an urge to find myself a shovel.
  • John Roberts · 8 months ago
    Wow, nice update dude, almost looks like Digg now!

    RT
    www.anonymity.us.tc
  • badform · 8 months ago
    looks like crap...
  • Harry Kunt · 8 months ago
    Did that "Conflicker" thingy do this ?
  • Quirked · 8 months ago
    Well done! Thanks for the morning laugh.
  • Peter · 8 months ago
    I want my money back!
  • rimwalker · 8 months ago
    Wicked!!!! Yay for April fools!!!
  • MeridianJP · 8 months ago
    This is like that awesome parallel universe where everyone has a goatse.
  • angrykeyboarder · 8 months ago
    I can Digg it (for today). Happy April fools day, reddit!
  • Baphomet · 8 months ago
    Eww... Digg'ish style interfaces suck.
  • Baphomet · 8 months ago
    I had to disable my Stylish because this format sucx soooobad.
  • Dan · 8 months ago
    Truly hate it. No offense to blind people, but it's designed for the nearly blind. When I try to use my Firefox controls to make the headlines smaller, I can't. They're just friggin' HUGE and I can't see very much on the page because they're so huge.

    You know what the redesign's like? Wired! Oh, wait, Wired owns Reddit. NOW I get it. And I stopped going to Wired after their redesign, because it was so huge, and I couldn't make the layout smaller.

    LAME MOVE, REDDIT!
  • WHo cares · 8 months ago
    Looks like shit.
  • Dan · 8 months ago
    One more thing: what happened to the cool control at the top of the page, where I could click on lots of stories? It's now gone, and it was my favorite part of the site, because I could so quickly flash through so many disparate stories. Why did you remove that?
  • squeaky · 8 months ago
    Your obsession with Digg comes across as pathetic. It's like the little brother always wanting to know what the big brother is doing and imitating him. Come on reddit. Grow up and get over your inferiority complex.
  • Dan Serfaty · 8 months ago
    Happy April Fool's day Reddit! It took me at least one minute to figure out I was on reddig. Nice one!
  • chaoskitty · 8 months ago
    My God, I KNOW it's April Fool's and I was even looking at a site that listed all the online April Fool's pranks while I opened Reddit and I STILL fell for it. :-/ I think that qualifies as pranking myself?
  • forestgypsy322 · 8 months ago
    Please, please, please....

    Tell me this an April Fool's joke.
  • sneakay · 8 months ago
    The second I clicked on reddit, I thought "I bet their April Fools joke will be that they changed their layout to look like Digg."

    A little obvious, but you did not fail to deliver.
  • jivetalker · 8 months ago
    It's April fools you tools.
  • Zach · 8 months ago
    Why does this place look like Digg?? Argh!
  • jackspratts · 8 months ago
    the farther away i move from digg the closer i get apparently.
  • copycat · 8 months ago
    like digg much?
  • brad · 8 months ago
    4/1
  • Anon · 8 months ago
    Common guys, it's April fools. You could have done better.
  • SweatyBolts · 8 months ago
    haha, this is amazing! digg, fark, slashdot, and palin all got school, hardcore.
  • Joost · 8 months ago
    No problem with the new design. Fresh and clear. Good work
  • gipester · 8 months ago
    The interface is fine, except that the numbers stay put when I scroll up and down, so I have no idea which story they relate to.
  • eltoro_qc · 8 months ago
    wow the new reddit looks so freaking good, now i can have the cool look of digg, without their users =D
  • Joe Peacock · 8 months ago
    I especially like the WTF page.
  • lhimalcolm · 8 months ago
    I'm calling April Fools! Reddig? Really? Give me a break!
  • Don · 8 months ago
    This gives me a GIGANTIC HEADACHE
  • geneticlemon · 8 months ago
    I feel so smug and self-righteous!
  • LiveImagePhoto · 8 months ago
    THIS STYLE IS HOTTT!!! i swear its giving me pleasure seizures....
  • mujahideenryder · 8 months ago
    How do I undigg reddit?
  • b34nz · 8 months ago
    Bastards!

    I was like oh noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooes
  • diggsux · 8 months ago
    this is not funny
  • FudgePuckington · 8 months ago
    I both love and lament this April 1st format. It's a funny joke, but now I have to deal with the pseudodigg format all day.
  • kikihorjak · 8 months ago
    ahh much cooler really but somehow resembles the facebook layout with white letters on blue backround on the left...
  • Cody · 8 months ago
    i digg
  • asdfasdfasdf · 8 months ago
    I like the original layout better.
  • asdfasdfasdf · 8 months ago
    Oh, I got it April's fool day
  • David 'NostraDavid' Hulsman · 8 months ago
    HAHA! Very nicely done this new 'update' :)
  • asdfasdfasdf · 8 months ago
    Actually not funny. Terrible headache from this new look. Will be back tomorrow.
  • slaneener · 8 months ago
    Ok I get a design revamp and change being good, but does it have to look so much like digg? Aren't they our unspoken rival? Do something fresher. Or is this an April Fools? I hope so....
  • 3rdiopen · 8 months ago
    is this an april fools joke???
  • Ev · 8 months ago
    Your new interface blows. I get, what, five things to pick from? Maybe two of them actually show up and the rest are just blank? What, you thought Digg and Propeller were lonely with their sucky pages?

    Or were you just getting too many hits so you wanted some of us to go away???

    This is horrible - you should fire your designers.
  • wowmir · 8 months ago
    Nice april fool try
    it scared me
  • mox · 8 months ago
    lots of wasted screen space
  • celticson · 8 months ago
    I like it, but I don't see the articles lined up and I cannot click on them! : (
  • RD · 8 months ago
    Do you have a QA department?
    I don't share your hate of IE. I cannot assume that you did not test your page in IE, so you must have an agenda then. Another thing, I am using FF for the sole purpose to use Addblock. And with it on the page does not render properly. So I am screwed all around and not only I.
    Be freaking reasonable, will you?

    Do better next time.
  • Prasad · 8 months ago
    I like the old version better. It was neat and clean. Can you provide a fallback for sad people like me ?
  • EwanG · 8 months ago
    Well, while I'm not a big fan of Reddit taking up the Digg look, I do think a rethink of the layout would be a good idea.

    Suppose I can expect to get buried for that, eh?
  • marc · 8 months ago
    my poor virgin eyes!
  • CaptainCrunch · 8 months ago
    You guys did a really good job. Props to your design team, they've got some serious skills.
  • McDeath · 8 months ago
    OMG this new style sucks balls!!!
  • Fredzilla · 8 months ago
    Let me guess - It's Fool's day and you are trying to look like Digg. Nice try. You had me fooled for a moment.
  • mpredosin · 8 months ago
    Please fix!!!

    classic.reddit.com goes back to the new crappy april fools UI after switching pages.
  • ryan · 8 months ago
    april fools
  • Ian · 8 months ago
    Looks like you have some css issues on firefox right now.
  • harley_dude · 8 months ago
    Yuck, get a new designer, the classic is so much better. Hope this is an April Fools joke.
  • Diana · 8 months ago
    To any reddit techie that might be reading the posts:

    I am using interenet explorer, and there seems to be a problem (I mean other than my poor choice in browsers). The rating and arrows are scrolling along the page, not staying fixed.

    Also, many of the images seem to have a link problem, showing naught but the "red x of error"

    That was a horrible description of the problem, but I hope it helps.
  • sqwishy · 8 months ago
    Reddit, you are unfunny.
  • psgrenier · 8 months ago
    Did you merge with Digg? Have you gone commercial? For the record, I hate most of the atheist posts on
    the old Reddit (not being a computer nerd rationalist materialist), but I prefer to have all that stuff rather than see the site merge with some bland, mainstream b.s. such as Digg. I'm willing to put up with the atheist stuff (it is, after all, less offensive than most of what passes for Christianity in the US this long while), but I draw the line at bland commercial and mainstream.
  • psgrenier · 8 months ago
    I feel so humiliated. Just a stupid April Fools thing. Duh.
  • bangituplainey · 8 months ago
    new layout suxXors
  • seanom · 8 months ago
    hahaha, "bury" it

    lame but good - dont digg tho
  • cuauhtli · 8 months ago
    Hahahaha, I had to double check the address bar and the View -> Zoom setting....
  • enolan · 8 months ago
    AAAAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAAH AAAAAAH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE?!?!
  • Derek · 8 months ago
    The new reddit does not work in IE6! This is all my workplace allows us to use and I NEED reddit! please don't remove the classic.reddit.com.
  • Dave teh Eunuch · 8 months ago
    How many eunuch visitors do you have a month?
  • VicinSea · 8 months ago
    >But even as we've grown to 5.6 million unique visitors a month...

    I dispute that number and would like to see a counter installed for public views. If 5.6 million people are visiting, then that is all they are doing---just visiting. They are not contributing, voting or commenting. Over the last couple of months the turn over on Reddit has deteriorated significantly. Stories hang out on the front page for days, ratings rarely get to 1000, let alone the 4000 and 5000 that we used to see for "Top Stories". Very few comments are being posted compared to 6 months ago. Redditors that used to post regularly have cut back to nearly nothing and over half of the new posts are spam for blog sites. 5.6 Million might be good for Ad Views but it has done nothing for the quality of the Reddit experience.
  • myyyke · 8 months ago
    Light bending shirt available at NerdyShirts.com:
    http://www.nerdyshirts.com/invisible-shirt.html
  • Petros · 8 months ago
    this is SOOOO much better..
    and the stories are better too somehow..
  • jwi · 8 months ago
    wonderful
  • Sepdesign · 8 months ago
    I must admit, old reddit wins. Sorry guys, I know you put in a lot of hard work, but damnit it just doesent work
  • Dan · 8 months ago
    Great work!
    Naysayers be damned!
  • Gene · 8 months ago
    Type too bold and big.. too much white space. Slow reading down.

    The nice thing about the other type is you could scan the page quickly to pick out the items you wanted to read. Now you have to stop and focus on each item. If some adjustments are not made, probably will spend much less time here.

    Agree... Aprils Fools.??
  • flo · 8 months ago
    i thought i'd mistyped and landed at a misdirect page. sad day.
  • sputterpop · 8 months ago
    can we call the joke over already?
  • Peng · 8 months ago
    Best April Fools joke of 2009!
  • Harry · 8 months ago
    WHY? WHY?

    You have post the link for classic, update the links also, clicking on "next" page goes to new design.

    Also very buggy, unuseable in IE7.

    WHY? WHY??????
  • Anonymous · 8 months ago
    This is some sort of April Fool's joke... right?

    RIGHT?!

    AHHHHH
  • I hate you · 8 months ago
    It sucks now...

    I quite
  • WAREWOLVESANDDEADTURTLESONLY · 8 months ago
    HAHAHAHAHA
  • guidotg · 8 months ago
    Kill it!!! Kill it with FIRE!!
  • John · 8 months ago
    Bad april fools joke....
  • omgwtfddr · 8 months ago
    The front page is very broken... I do not like it at all. While it is funny, it would have been better if it was at least done properly.
  • Babarnicals · 8 months ago
    Hoping it's an April Fool's Joke. If it keeps looking like this, guaranteed I'll visit less.
  • B7 · 8 months ago
    April fools! Haha!
  • FOOLMEONCE · 8 months ago
    way to load slower I'm really interested in your shitty splash graphics. Any added ms are much appreciated I like to get my information as slow as possible.
  • HUGEFONT · 8 months ago
    FONT IS WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY TOO BIG
  • Daughret · 2 months ago
    You got a nice blog up there.

    respect
    james kails
    ______________________________________________
    watch glee | watch american dad online | watch friends
  • dizi izle · 1 week ago
    Love Reddit :) thanks