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It looks like they chose August 1st as a date to disable access to the old interface. I'm very sad, I really don't like the new one:

  • Padding everywhere (touchscreen-shique, even for things you can't tap on like paragraphs)
  • Bigger text on narrower text columns (a LOT more scrolling)
  • News articles arranged left-right as well as up-down (not as nice to navigate as a single list).
  • News articles summaries/blurbs often just one sentence, far too little. I have to click on a lot more articles now to even find out what they're about. (I worry this is an engagement metric that makes them think the new interface is working better).
  • Defaults to only showing you articles for your state. This makes me really uncomfortable (is the average person only expected to care about what happens in their state?).

/vent

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[–] Fluid@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago

It's so awful. Basically unusable at this rate. What a fuck-up.