Most of what I write here is some version of “here’s what’s wrong with official Reddit, and here’s what I built instead.” That’s an honest description of why this app exists, but it’s not the whole picture, and I don’t think it’s fair to only ever talk about the parts of Reddit I disagree with. This year, Reddit shipped something I think genuinely got better, and I want to actually say so instead of only ever showing up with a complaint.
What Actually Changed
Reddit expanded how much of the feed is dedicated to media — bigger images, more of the frame given to the actual photo or video instead of a headline and a wall of text with a thumbnail off to the side. It rolled out broadly, across platforms, not as an experiment buried in a settings flag. However you feel about the rest of the product, that specific change is a real, deliberate shift toward treating images as the main event instead of an accessory to a text post.
Why I Think It’s a Genuinely Good Change
It matches how a lot of the best content on Reddit actually behaves. Some of the subreddits worth the most time — anything visual, anything built around a photo or a build or a screenshot — were always slightly working against a feed designed for text-first posts. Giving images more room is Reddit’s product catching up to how a meaningful chunk of its own best content actually wants to be seen.
It’s a change that helps without asking anything of the person scrolling. No new gesture to learn, no new tab to discover, no settings toggle to find. The feed just does more with the images that were always there. The best product changes are often the ones nobody has to be taught, and this is one of them.
It’s an admission, in product form, that the swipe-first, image-first way of browsing was worth building toward. I’m not going to pretend that doesn’t feel a little validating. I built Redinfinite around the idea that a lot of Reddit’s best content wants an image-first, swipe-first experience, at a time when official Reddit was mostly a dense text-and-thumbnail feed. Reddit’s own product direction moving toward more image real estate is Reddit agreeing with the premise, even if unintentionally.
Why Redinfinite Still Exists Anyway
Giving credit for one good change isn’t the same as saying the gap closed. A bigger image in a denser feed is still a denser feed — the surrounding chrome, the account requirements, the parts of the experience that have nothing to do with image size are all still there. Redinfinite’s actual pitch was never just “bigger pictures.” It’s no account, no login wall, a feed built around scrolling images specifically instead of media being one ingredient in a busier layout. Reddit getting one part of that right doesn’t replace the rest of it, but it’s still worth saying clearly: this part, they got right.
The Bottom Line
I built this app because I thought official Reddit was getting worse at the specific thing I wanted from it. That’s still mostly true. But when Reddit ships something that moves in the direction I’ve been building toward, the honest thing to do is say so, not pretend it didn’t happen because it complicates the narrative. This year, the feed got more image-first, and that’s a real win for anyone who uses Reddit that way — on either app.
