It's bad. I'm not just saying that, I have tolerated a lot of site ux changes that other people hated (Slashdot beta?!), but the site is so much worse now. All the posts in r/help are about how bad it is. I haven't seen an official announcement so I'll try to summarize the obvious changes:
- some style differences. Normally not a big deal, but up/down vote seem more cramped on my tiny phone screen for post listings.
- my feed is full of communities I don't care about. Reddit is "helpfully" trying to introduce me to new communities, but I purposefully didn't join r/pics, thanks. There are soooo many suggested posts none of which I'm interested in.
- if you open a post, the link back to the community is even smaller and harder to click than before.
- posts now include an ad section of "other posts you may like", which seem to be popular posts that I already read in the past. Thanks but I already read them, why are you suggesting them?
- (edit to add) actually the "other posts you may like" includes random links to content on other subs I'm not interested in. It's like the developers had to implement 10 different "features" to cross link posts and this is the best they could do in 4 hours.
I closed the site at this point. Share your own bad experience below
I didn't realize commenting was an important metric. I check lemmy everyday but rarely have something useful to say.