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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by WaterWaiver@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

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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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[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

random foss people on their way to create a 3rd party frontend for abc news:

[–] No1@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You may find the ABC rss links (or other news sites) and using your favourite RSS viewer, or an online one useful.

screenshot

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

TIL there are thumbnails in feeds. Cheers :)

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

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

[–] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You might be able to set up a user-script to bring it back if you feel strongly enough about it.

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

I was contemplating restyling the page. But this won't bring back the proper article descriptions.