I just opened reddit.com for the first time in I don't know how long. Amazing. The actual content starts 2/3rds of the way down the screen. All the media is unfurled so I can see all of one headline on the home page.
I have seen my enthusiast desktop rig rev up and slow to a crawl just by scrolling down reddit. I have seen a collection of ~10 reddit tabs work on 6 (!!!) gigs of ram. Reddit has become a condensed form of all that is so awful about modern web design.
I used to love using reddit to find interesting niche communities, it was my primary way of engaging with the internet. These days I just hope it dies faster so that those communities can migrate to a better platform.
The new desktop interface is unusable. Really. It might work for 9gag kind of shallow content but not for a "frontpage" thing.