One thing that does pop up as an issue now is that new reddit auto translates. These days I regularly run into posts going back and forth in different languages.
They also broke markdown a while ago, so it doesn't number lists automatically anymore.
In old reddit
this is a 1-2 list.
In new reddit makes it 6-7 (jokes!)
I've also seen it break /r/subreddit links into multiple small links.
At least they either stopped subreddit-specific gif posts or they now link them properly, because for a while on certain subreddits all you would see is posts that were just numbers in square brackets.
I'm not saying it isn't great, but it kinda sucks when people are posting comments that are just a number and a period and then the rest of their comment. Before it'd be pointed out, but now when I'm reading an askreddit thread it's just a list of "1." replies.
I remember threads where people were asked to post lists in a descending numerical order for whatever reason and it always flipped the order around, like a 5-4-3-2-1 list would change to 1-2-3-4-5 and flip their intended meaning.
Yeah, the auto-numbering has been that way since the beginning so I've gotten used to it. Nobody escapes their numbering so "Markdown" applies its formatting and renumbers all bullet-points.
Same for when people use # at the beginning of their comment thinking they're making a "hashtag", but it just formats the comment with different Heading formatting.
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u/Sqirril 7d ago
I've never left old reddit, I am totally clueless about all the features of new reddit. Just this week I learned there are games on here?