Its not just advertisements its getting a useable site at all. The new style reddit is terrible. It takes forever to load. When you read comments they start to crop so narrow that it not only puts in dozens of line breaks it will put the break in the characters of words. Old.reddit.com in comparison loads pages in a tenth the time and shows all the comments as you’d expect. Luckily that still works or I’d fully abandon the site.
> Its not just advertisements its getting a useable site at all.
Yeah, it is particularly unusable for the community/commenting aspect of the site, because of how often you need to "click to load more", which sometimes means content popping into the middle and sometimes means navigating away so that you lose your place (and sometimes previously mid-loaded stuff) when you return.
IMO it's heading into some of the same pitfalls that killed Digg, which over-focused on the headline-links and promoting specific material, at the expense of the person-to-person communication.
