“but it feels like old reddit”. My god, imagine actively preferring the new reddit UI. Let them keep their shiny jangling keys instead of coming over here and pestering the devs for a snoovatar feature or whatever nonsense.
The ‘maybe read for 2 minutes to figure it out’ miniscule barrier to entry is a feature not a bug.
Oh no, a few hundred kwh per year. I did some back of the napkin math and using quite generous estimates the electricity for that came to roughly the same carbon emissions as 1 tank of gasoline per year. The ‘multiple kids’ part is going to be many, many times more impactful.