Reddit is ugly and it might be why you're using it

Often while browsing reddit, this thought will surface : "Reddit is ugly, let's re-design it". And quick you bury this thought, turning another link purple. Another one after that and more, so much more after that one. You're here for the content, not the website. You're here to click on links or look at pictures and videos. It's a content generator based on your interests. It's magical.

But it's ugly, isn't it? I promise you that if you show the Reddit homepage to a moderate or light Internet user, the first thing that this person will tell you is that the website is ugly. They wouldn't use it, they couldn’t use it. They might try, but I’m certain that most of them will abandon the website to turn to another, more "attractive" website such as Buzzfeed or, you know, Facebook. When you become a regular user of two or more of these websites, you realize that a lot of it’s content actually comes from Reddit, we’ve seen the user bash of Buzzfeed more than once because of it.

Why aren’t you on Buzzfeed or Facebook then, why are you here? Because it’s "hard" to use, but you can. You are privileged, you have the skills and knowledge necessary to navigate, click and understand this text-based interface. You’re a separate class of user and you are, therefore, the creators of Reddit’s content. Different content, special-user generated and, of course, rated content. You relate to the content, but you also relate to other users for being "power-users", knowledge-bearing users.

For me, this is a (confusing) case of design creating a community, gathering people of the (weird) future.

That said, I think the basic Reddit has some technical flaws that can be enhanced with, for example, the RES extension. I’m thinking of never-ending Redditing and gallery and some other things of course.

This is just a thought but I’d like to hear what you guys think!

Note : English is not my first language so feel free to come forward with comments regarding the text quality.

Edit : errors

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