When I joined Reddit 10+ years ago there was no "old.reddit.com" it was just reddit. The "new" UI was designed to basically entice users who found the original threaded discussion forum a bit daunting. But that (barely) complicated looking format kept a lot of lazy minded fools away from the place.
It's that way with literally every "scene". The easier it becomes to join, the more diluted the quality of the music/activity/discussion/hobby.
So....that's what happened. Reddit made reddit more palatable to a wider audience, and that wider audience includes a wider spread of the bell curve that is humanity. Sucks, don't it.
When I joined Reddit 10+ years ago there was no "old.reddit.com" it was just reddit. The "new" UI was designed to basically entice users who found the original threaded discussion forum a bit daunting. But that (barely) complicated looking format kept a lot of lazy minded fools away from the place.
It's that way with literally every "scene". The easier it becomes to join, the more diluted the quality of the music/activity/discussion/hobby.
So....that's what happened. Reddit made reddit more palatable to a wider audience, and that wider audience includes a wider spread of the bell curve that is humanity. Sucks, don't it.