I am slightly depressed at how content on the web has evolved in the last decade. More and more content providers (youtube, Hulu, Netflix, etc) make their platforms harder and harder to search. They continue to promote what essentially they want you to consume.. and actual content your looking for is buried.
The other day I wanted to watch the last season of Legion (forget never finished the series) and was looking around for it. Turns out it is indeed on Hulu (which I have) however you would never just stumble on this. Despite my history of watching just about ever comic book series and comic book movie there is. Its almost like they don't have a true interest in pulling up what I want. Instead literally the front page is full of stuff I have zero interest in watching.
It's hard not to get a bit pessimistic about where this is all going, no? It's incredibly frustrating already, that many topics are almost impossible to search for nowadays (just on your favorite search engine). Adding `site:reddit.com` or whatever is the crutch many of us use, but in the end the fundamental problem is of course that less and less content is even available in places anymore that can be properly indexed. Only so much discussion happens on reddit or whatever. :(
I much prefer the old times of searching for some topic on google and if nothing came up, it was really because there likely wasn't significant discussion happening about said topic.
Reddits new format has made it remarkably difficult to have the content you're looking for get picked up the by the indexer.
That site has had a detrimental shift in terms of quality, indexability, accessibility and countless other "ilities" from that single "redesign".
Side note: If anyone in your life says "I like New Reddit", you have now identified a fundamental point of difference in taste with that person. Use this information wisely.
Reddit needs to realize the asinine mistakes that they have made in this "redesign" that no one asked for. The moment they remove or screw with the old site in any way, I'm gone and never coming back.
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[1] Just in case it isn't clear; this comment contains hyperbole for the sake of a little humor