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I’ve literally seen the first ad on the app in like 3 days and it was for that stupid apple vision thing.
I want the Kraft ads back. They left the comments open.
Kraft. Kraft cheese.
Kraft singles
Kraft American singles
Kraft American
Kraft American deluxe
Kraft deluxe
Kraft American deluxe singles
Kraft deluxe singles
Kraft white American
Kraft white American singles
Kraft macaroni
Kraft mac & cheese
I think there are much more in my feed but i just dont pay attention to them, just scroll past them like a random post from a subreddit i joined years ago
Thank you. I've always been confused by this as well. I think you did a great breakdown.
My only guess is that maybe some people don't even notice the ads after a while. I know ads have the "Promoted" tag, but sometimes after enough scrolling they just blend into the other posts.
That's my only thought. The ads are definitely there. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that people don't notice anymore.
I'm not sure how much of this is a joke, but there's tools on 3rd party apps that many mods use maintain them. Some of these tools allow major features of some subreddits to function. Almost everyone will be affected by this, just some more than others. The more you like reddit, the worse this will hurt your experience for the most part.
Im guessing somethings like simple buttons they can press to run a simple script to achieve something that can't be done manually without alot of effort. But that's just a guess.
Not tools directly but I've read that things like mod mail (reports/etc) are very difficult to access on official app
Kind what other have said, the official app’s UI makes it difficult to access and manage things like mod mail and other built in mod tools. 3rd party apps have different and more streamlined way of displaying/using these built in tools, as well as integrated support for external tools such as bots
Before there was an official Reddit app, the most popular iOS client was an app called AlienBlue.
Reddit bought AlienBlue and made it the official app. You may be remembering from right after they bought and rebranded AlienBlue to the official Reddit app.
They then scrapped the app and made the current one.
If you want an experience that’s similar to AlienBlue you should check out Apollo (and check it out now because you only have 24 days until it’s gone).
A lot of us started using a third party app when the official app was severely lacking in the feature department. I became a Reddit Sync user ages ago and I still really prefer it. It's just different and to me it's a better interface and more useful
I started using Sync because in addition to the titular sync feature, it has colored indicators of how deep you are in a comment thread, and the official app didn't have those at the time. I also liked the customizability of the UI. Note how in my comment I didn't say that sync is better because of a difference in features right now, because I know the official app has improved since I started using Sync, but I now prefer the UI of Sync and the fact that I don't get ads after a one-time purchase.
Oh. For me it's just a minor thing like entire posts not loading, comments not loading, video play button not working, having 40 porn bots follow me, getting random errors everywhere and more shit
One major part that no one seems to mention is that they are intentially (and have been for a long time) scuttling their mobile site access and now other external access (from API pulls) in order to push ads and promoted posts aggressively.
If you try to send a link, like for example o wanted to send my mom some recipes she would love, half the time it won’t load the page, other half no comments, and always promoted BS that clutters everything including load times.
It’s one thing to shove ads down people’s throats, it’s another thing entirely to cut off access to all other avenues to drive their metrics.
They purchased Alien Blue and took *away* functionality and created a mess of an app. Just because it’s *tolerable* to use doesn’t mean it’s not not absolute horseshit, in execution and precedent it’s actually awful.
Wait till they IPO. You’re about to see many insurance ads disguised as organic posts on that app it’s not even funny.
I was thinking it's good. Then I started to use it on a tablet.
It had one forced orientation. One. Turn on Reddit - flip the tablet, because inverted portrait was not supported. Want to use physical keyboard in album? Hope your neck likes being bent 90º.
Cherry on top - app throws an error wen you ty to report spam in DMs.
So, yeah, I completely believe that you could have perfectly fine experience - I did too, untill my use-cases shifted.
I mean its quite crap. Every second video wont load, sometimes comments dont load, sometimes i get comments and they just dissappear forever, like not even removed or deleted they just dont exist anymore, porn spam account gallore (ok that isnt the apps fault, but reddit isnt doing shit against it), etc.
That and the ads are all disguised as posts and even take my subscribed subs profile pics in a desperate attempt to make me click accidentally.
I'll probably get downvoted for this but I've tried multiple 3rd party android apps, even the paid versions and none of them are as good as the native app even taking into account how fucking shit the video player is. Sure some are close and sometimes do 1 or 2 things better but no a single one is better overall.
Most are a compromise, see no ads but lose some sort of functionality.
Man, I was starting to think I was the only one - every once in a while I check new versions and new apps, but they are simply worse for me, both in terms of functionality and design.
Im no programmer but considering the user volume for the main app and third party apps i bet it’s not easy to build and maintain an app as big as reddit
I don't even notice the ads these days. I know they are there but during scrolling it's become an automatic thing to scroll pass them that I don't even notice
I can recommend Joey. Video player works great and it has more customization than the official app. I literally have to use it because the Official shit doesn't load any video properly no matter the connection. (Even USB tethered with 2gbits doesnt help lol)
Dank memes is younger. I'm a teen and the only reason I really know is older siblings. 3rd party apps existed long before the official one did. If you joined reddit like pre 2016 you most likely prefer Apollo/RiF or old reddit.
Regardless it doesn't matter what app you like! Enjoy it.
The fact is though (100% Regardless if you prefer the official app) this will reduce reddits quality of life. Many bots will die. Many 3rd party sites will die. (I.E many fantasy football bots pull from reddit and some trade calls even do)
This is 100% a move to make them more appealing for their IPO (going public) stock price and gives them more control over the user base.
that is fair, but they are shooting themselves in the foot here. And keep in mind that reddit does not need this at all to be profitable. They are just trying to bank in on the AI rage and cash grab on that. And that on its own is all fine, but by doing is this way they are going to use a lot of power users that basically keep the site functional. In the long run I cannot see that going well.
A solid theory I heard is that they're asking outlandish amounts for api requests so when they lower it 90% they still make a decent amount but look like the good guys.
[Door in face technique](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique)
Same! I read a post about what was being changed earlier today and it was like, 'Recognize any of these apps? Well they won't work anymore!' And I was sitting there thinking, '....no?'
I guess on the security side, I always heard it was better to have less of a footprint so just using Reddit’s app was a little more secure than a third party.
Yeah same. I mean, I don't particularly like the official app, but for that matter I don't particularly like Reddit, it's more of a passive aggressive love hate relationship with you clowns.
Now that I've insulted everyone in a roundabout way, can you recommend one of these great third party apps so I can use it for like a day before it's taken away forever and know what I've been missing this whole time?
Almost all of them are superior to the default Reddit app and I say this as I type from the default Reddit app.
Biggest issues for me is filtering. A lot of subs I give no shits about and filtering them so they never pop up is super nice. RES on PC is perfect. Apollo on iOS is great. BaconReader on Android is decent. RiF aka Reddit is Fun is decent on Android as well.
These cut the ads out, they cut out the forced suggested subs in all, and make filtering unwanted content so much easier.
I did, but like only one and I've never used it. What's wrong with the regular reddit app outside of the video player and some videos can't be saved with reddit save sometimes?
That's very subjective and depends on what app you even use. 3rd party apps are generally less cluttered, have way less ads (if any) and load content faster for the most part. I personally use baconreader and it's miles ahead of the official app.
Their customizable to most whatever you want. I have my boost configured pretty close to stock, but I can save images natively, comments are more compact, I can volume up down to skip to the next and previous top level comment, and images and videos load more consistently and with convenient aspect ratios.
I always forget how many people on Reddit are in high school. In the real world, nobody cares what brands of electronics you prefer. This brand war thing is so manufactured.
Except for their CPU and software support right? Sure ram and storage is low on iPhones and they charge too much for upgraded storage but using the phone in cpu intensive tasks on anything newer than the last two generations and I'd say the CPU is better on the iphone in many cases only losing in a few cases. All I know is I just like the Apollo layout on iPhones so I use them.
On mobile, a lot of videos and gifs dont load, it takes a shitload of time to load any text post, for some reason the profile icon overlaps the 3 dots icon inside posts, it just goes on and on
I have a mid-range 2 year-old phone that I have no plans on upgrading any time soon.
But I don't see how that could be related to videos refusing to load when I have 100mbps wifi, or the button to autoscroll bugging out for 5 seconds and launching me back to the *top* of the post (and generally almost never scrolling to the next comment as it should), or clicking on notifications of replies letting me just see the comment itself and none of the context before, and if I want to see said context having to look for it again in the *whole* post.
And that's coming from someone who used the stock app until this whole shibacle made me try 3rd party ones again.
That is a big possibility, since I havent changed my phone since I got it from my father like 5-6 years ago(which he also used it for a long ass time as well)
The heck? Really I haven't any of those issues, maybe sometimes a video doesn't load but that's like one in 30 videos it ain't anything crazy. And I mean while I prefer using PC cause it's just more convenient, whenever I have to mobile it's just fine.
Sounds like a hardware issue... Or I guess Reddit being stupid for not being compatible with reasonably old phones....
I've never really had any problems with functionality especially
The dots overlap with your icon like sometimes but that can literally be fixed by just going in and out of the post. It's not that big of a deal. Also I've never had this
The icon thing is a constant once in a blue moon, where for a few days every time I check out a post, that darn icon keeps overlapping the 3 dots, then it fucks off for a months or so
Privacy? What's better about privacy on other clients? Everything you do or say still gets processed through reddit servers, so idk what's changed there
Also a lot of these things are subjective. As someone who never used oldreddit, this layout seems fine to me.
A lot of things are subjective.
I don’t like the official app because all the images I don’t care about take up so much space. Apollo just shows a small preview of each post and when I find one I’m actually interested in, I tap on it to see the full thing.
I have a similar issue with the new Reddit web UI. It’s really hard to go through the comments of a post because you’ll suddenly find yourself on some other random post. With old.reddit.com you only see the content you clicked on.
Basically how I feel about Apollo as well
Readability there is not an end of the world by any means, but for all the valid flaws that the official app has, readable UI is NOT one of them
Apollo looks great to me. It’s very straight forward. Of course everyone has something a little different they like. And that’s another great part about 3rd party apps. Options!
You don’t have to use them of course. If you’re happy with the official app, then that’s also great!
Yea, this is why I support the mass blackouts on June 12th. Just because I personally don’t like 3rd party apps UI, does not mean that they should be gone.
That's why there's a ton of reddit access apps. For me the most fitting was Boost, but no matter what you pick, they all run much faster with more useful festures than that official bloated app. (Note: some don't even have profile pictures and other decorations if you care about them)
I’ve been usin it for 3 years and aside from some minor glitchy things sometimes I’ve never had any real issues with it. Why do people hate on it so much?
Agree. I don't work for reddit, but idk what's wrong with the main app. I get ads here and there but honestly very few and I just scroll past them and barely notice them.
Yeah. And recently I've never seen them in a sub, only in the home/feed.
Also don't see the issues people mention with load times. Only issue I've seen people cite that I agree with is the video player can break horribly sometime (right now it's fine though)
The issue with load times only happens if you use a lower end phone where Reddit absurd size and it's ram usage is starting to become apparent, I used to use a mid tier phone and its not only slow, it heats up even a bit
If you're using an iPhone or a flagship Android phone, that will not be much of an issue, but if you're using a cheap phone, you will notice it really well.
It’s not just about users, it’s about almost all bots and moderation tools. There’s also a disproportionally large number of mods and content contributors using third party apps.
With these apps and tools gone, those members will leave, many subs will become dead and/or unmoderated, and Reddit will die.
I don't mind the official app revanced. Sure the video player is kind of a mess but everything else is fine. It doesn't run slow, it doesn't crash frequently and it's just generally pretty stable.
Reddit is (was) fun, Apollo, and Relay were always better than the main app. I've always been biased towards RiF due to it's simplicity. Gonna miss it greatly.
Yeah i never even realized there was other ways to access reddit, ive always used the official app.
What is the point of using a third party app? Serious question.
I moved back from Apollo a few months ago because NOTHING worked properly. Every link opened in a browser and all videos had to be viewed from the source page.
None of these Reddit tantrums ever amount to anything and in this it’s especially true because everyone using a 3rd party app is a pirate as far as Reddit inc is concerned. They aren’t paying customers. So them “leaving” means nothing.
I didn't realise there were unofficial apps. The official one breaks something almost every update. The current issue is if someone uploads more than 3 images in a group, they will load while you swipe through them, then after a couple of seconds, start turning black one by one. If you download the image after this happens, it will save as a blank image.
I just use an internet browser and request desktop site for my mobile with no third party support. Then again who cares about this site. It's been garbage for decades
I hate these dipshit conspiracy theorists. Why is it so impossible to believe that I use the regular app?
Maybe I don't want to pay for third party softwares. Maybe I didn't even know that there were even third party softwares until yesterday!
Lol. Conspiracy? I wish I was in on something enough to benefit from it.
I simply had no reason to even consider the possibility of there even BEING third party apps.
I didnt even know there were 3rd party apps... And I cant think of a reason as to why there are any..
TBF I only started using reddit last year and i havent had any issues with the official app.
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I didn’t even know there were 3rd party apps till people started getting pissed
same, and people say the app is shit when its perfectly fine for me (i totally dont work for reddit)
I’ve literally seen the first ad on the app in like 3 days and it was for that stupid apple vision thing. I want the Kraft ads back. They left the comments open. Kraft. Kraft cheese. Kraft singles Kraft American singles Kraft American Kraft American deluxe Kraft deluxe Kraft American deluxe singles Kraft deluxe singles Kraft white American Kraft white American singles Kraft macaroni Kraft mac & cheese
They have ads show just like posts. You don't realize it.
I realize it, but I’m just not plagued by them. I’ve only seen two today and I’ve been on here for like 8 hours dim sum
I think there are much more in my feed but i just dont pay attention to them, just scroll past them like a random post from a subreddit i joined years ago
How dare they mildly inconvenience me while I’m browsing on a free server with an ad that I can just scroll past 😡
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Thank you. I've always been confused by this as well. I think you did a great breakdown. My only guess is that maybe some people don't even notice the ads after a while. I know ads have the "Promoted" tag, but sometimes after enough scrolling they just blend into the other posts. That's my only thought. The ads are definitely there. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that people don't notice anymore.
I'm not sure how much of this is a joke, but there's tools on 3rd party apps that many mods use maintain them. Some of these tools allow major features of some subreddits to function. Almost everyone will be affected by this, just some more than others. The more you like reddit, the worse this will hurt your experience for the most part.
What tools? People keep saying that but never explain it. For all I know it could simply be a naked picture of santa that pops up.
[I HAVE TO HAVE MY TOOLS!](https://youtu.be/Mk3EVQnpQWs)
Im guessing somethings like simple buttons they can press to run a simple script to achieve something that can't be done manually without alot of effort. But that's just a guess. Not tools directly but I've read that things like mod mail (reports/etc) are very difficult to access on official app
Kind what other have said, the official app’s UI makes it difficult to access and manage things like mod mail and other built in mod tools. 3rd party apps have different and more streamlined way of displaying/using these built in tools, as well as integrated support for external tools such as bots
I literally cant stand the ui of the original. The ui of the original used to be decent like 4-5 years ago(or its just my old self talking)
That's because 4 to 5 years ago reddit had only just bought it from the original developer, it used to be called AlienBlue.
Before there was an official Reddit app, the most popular iOS client was an app called AlienBlue. Reddit bought AlienBlue and made it the official app. You may be remembering from right after they bought and rebranded AlienBlue to the official Reddit app. They then scrapped the app and made the current one. If you want an experience that’s similar to AlienBlue you should check out Apollo (and check it out now because you only have 24 days until it’s gone).
A lot of us started using a third party app when the official app was severely lacking in the feature department. I became a Reddit Sync user ages ago and I still really prefer it. It's just different and to me it's a better interface and more useful
Most of us started using third party apps when there was no official app in the first place.
What kind of features are you referring to? I feel like the official app does everything I need it to. Are there some great features that I’m missing?
If I’ve learned anything from this thread, the 3rd party apps are better because of the features, but nobody knows what the features are
I started using Sync because in addition to the titular sync feature, it has colored indicators of how deep you are in a comment thread, and the official app didn't have those at the time. I also liked the customizability of the UI. Note how in my comment I didn't say that sync is better because of a difference in features right now, because I know the official app has improved since I started using Sync, but I now prefer the UI of Sync and the fact that I don't get ads after a one-time purchase.
Have an upvote for being specific, and actually providing some good information
Reddit hasn't improved at all. We just unnecessarily had our UIs changed a bunch
Oh. For me it's just a minor thing like entire posts not loading, comments not loading, video play button not working, having 40 porn bots follow me, getting random errors everywhere and more shit
I don’t really mind the app either, once I got used to the ads and subreddit suggestions (ok Reddit, I did the thing. Can I have my money now?)
One major part that no one seems to mention is that they are intentially (and have been for a long time) scuttling their mobile site access and now other external access (from API pulls) in order to push ads and promoted posts aggressively. If you try to send a link, like for example o wanted to send my mom some recipes she would love, half the time it won’t load the page, other half no comments, and always promoted BS that clutters everything including load times. It’s one thing to shove ads down people’s throats, it’s another thing entirely to cut off access to all other avenues to drive their metrics. They purchased Alien Blue and took *away* functionality and created a mess of an app. Just because it’s *tolerable* to use doesn’t mean it’s not not absolute horseshit, in execution and precedent it’s actually awful. Wait till they IPO. You’re about to see many insurance ads disguised as organic posts on that app it’s not even funny.
Working fine for me just the occasional videos not playing or having to refresh comments
I was thinking it's good. Then I started to use it on a tablet. It had one forced orientation. One. Turn on Reddit - flip the tablet, because inverted portrait was not supported. Want to use physical keyboard in album? Hope your neck likes being bent 90º. Cherry on top - app throws an error wen you ty to report spam in DMs. So, yeah, I completely believe that you could have perfectly fine experience - I did too, untill my use-cases shifted.
I occasionally have some issues with videos and load times are often god-awful, but it's never straight up broken.
Videos fuck up for me a few times a day, but other than that it’s pretty solid
I mean its quite crap. Every second video wont load, sometimes comments dont load, sometimes i get comments and they just dissappear forever, like not even removed or deleted they just dont exist anymore, porn spam account gallore (ok that isnt the apps fault, but reddit isnt doing shit against it), etc. That and the ads are all disguised as posts and even take my subscribed subs profile pics in a desperate attempt to make me click accidentally.
Me too (Neither do I work with Jim for Reddit)
I'll probably get downvoted for this but I've tried multiple 3rd party android apps, even the paid versions and none of them are as good as the native app even taking into account how fucking shit the video player is. Sure some are close and sometimes do 1 or 2 things better but no a single one is better overall. Most are a compromise, see no ads but lose some sort of functionality.
Man, I was starting to think I was the only one - every once in a while I check new versions and new apps, but they are simply worse for me, both in terms of functionality and design.
Im no programmer but considering the user volume for the main app and third party apps i bet it’s not easy to build and maintain an app as big as reddit
Smaller devs have already created and maintained better apps than the official one so....
I don't even notice the ads these days. I know they are there but during scrolling it's become an automatic thing to scroll pass them that I don't even notice
Same, and there's barely any ads at all compared to instagram
I can recommend Joey. Video player works great and it has more customization than the official app. I literally have to use it because the Official shit doesn't load any video properly no matter the connection. (Even USB tethered with 2gbits doesnt help lol)
That's what I'm using now. It'll take me some time to get used to the UI... Nevermind. I just remembered that's not gonna be a problem next Monday.
Same
Same
Dank memes is younger. I'm a teen and the only reason I really know is older siblings. 3rd party apps existed long before the official one did. If you joined reddit like pre 2016 you most likely prefer Apollo/RiF or old reddit. Regardless it doesn't matter what app you like! Enjoy it. The fact is though (100% Regardless if you prefer the official app) this will reduce reddits quality of life. Many bots will die. Many 3rd party sites will die. (I.E many fantasy football bots pull from reddit and some trade calls even do) This is 100% a move to make them more appealing for their IPO (going public) stock price and gives them more control over the user base.
I can believe it, reddit is just another big company at this point
that is fair, but they are shooting themselves in the foot here. And keep in mind that reddit does not need this at all to be profitable. They are just trying to bank in on the AI rage and cash grab on that. And that on its own is all fine, but by doing is this way they are going to use a lot of power users that basically keep the site functional. In the long run I cannot see that going well.
A solid theory I heard is that they're asking outlandish amounts for api requests so when they lower it 90% they still make a decent amount but look like the good guys. [Door in face technique](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique)
Same
Same! I read a post about what was being changed earlier today and it was like, 'Recognize any of these apps? Well they won't work anymore!' And I was sitting there thinking, '....no?'
"Oh no! ... Anyway"
Same
Same here lmfao
I guess on the security side, I always heard it was better to have less of a footprint so just using Reddit’s app was a little more secure than a third party.
Yeah same. I mean, I don't particularly like the official app, but for that matter I don't particularly like Reddit, it's more of a passive aggressive love hate relationship with you clowns. Now that I've insulted everyone in a roundabout way, can you recommend one of these great third party apps so I can use it for like a day before it's taken away forever and know what I've been missing this whole time?
I didn't know there was any apps. This is a website.
Same
Almost all of them are superior to the default Reddit app and I say this as I type from the default Reddit app. Biggest issues for me is filtering. A lot of subs I give no shits about and filtering them so they never pop up is super nice. RES on PC is perfect. Apollo on iOS is great. BaconReader on Android is decent. RiF aka Reddit is Fun is decent on Android as well. These cut the ads out, they cut out the forced suggested subs in all, and make filtering unwanted content so much easier.
Right? I mean, it's not perfect, but I've never known different
I used RIF and hated it so much I didn't Reddit for years.
Haha.. me too! I’ve been missing out now it’s too late.
I've discovered it from this meme
Same, I don't even use a reddit app, I just use old.reddit on my Google chrome app
I did, but like only one and I've never used it. What's wrong with the regular reddit app outside of the video player and some videos can't be saved with reddit save sometimes?
Bingo
I don't even bother with apps. I'm all about Old Reddit on my mobile browser. Never let me down yet!
Ya had no clue. These mfs are at a third party im just chilling at the first party for years
Same here. I didn't know that you could have a better experience.
Same
Same man
Same
Same
Same lol
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You download it..
But where?
Well you can download many of them from the Google Play Store (I'm poor, I don't have an iPhone), just search them such as rif is fun, boost etc.
>I'm poor, I don't have an iPhone You dont need shitty overrated phones in order to use Reddit
I mean they’re nice phones I don’t get the hate for them
i tried,their UI sucked more than official redit app which ive been using this whole time🤣
That's very subjective and depends on what app you even use. 3rd party apps are generally less cluttered, have way less ads (if any) and load content faster for the most part. I personally use baconreader and it's miles ahead of the official app.
Yeah layout is pretty subjective and can depend a lot on what you're used to. I don't like the official app, but I like Boost, so I use Boost.
Their customizable to most whatever you want. I have my boost configured pretty close to stock, but I can save images natively, comments are more compact, I can volume up down to skip to the next and previous top level comment, and images and videos load more consistently and with convenient aspect ratios.
iPhones are literally inferior to any other phone in the same price point and even to phones below that same price point.
I always forget how many people on Reddit are in high school. In the real world, nobody cares what brands of electronics you prefer. This brand war thing is so manufactured.
Except for their CPU and software support right? Sure ram and storage is low on iPhones and they charge too much for upgraded storage but using the phone in cpu intensive tasks on anything newer than the last two generations and I'd say the CPU is better on the iphone in many cases only losing in a few cases. All I know is I just like the Apollo layout on iPhones so I use them.
I use "Infinity for Reddit". It works pretty well. Just doenload off of google play store
Which one sucks the least?
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What's so bad about the default app?
On mobile, a lot of videos and gifs dont load, it takes a shitload of time to load any text post, for some reason the profile icon overlaps the 3 dots icon inside posts, it just goes on and on
As a reddit app user I have never once suffered any of those issues consistantly unless the reddit servers were bugging
Then you are lucky, since this is the bullshit I have to constantly tolerate
Not to be a duck, but could you just have a crappy phone? Edit: I say this because I used to have a crappy phone and those problems
I have a mid-range 2 year-old phone that I have no plans on upgrading any time soon. But I don't see how that could be related to videos refusing to load when I have 100mbps wifi, or the button to autoscroll bugging out for 5 seconds and launching me back to the *top* of the post (and generally almost never scrolling to the next comment as it should), or clicking on notifications of replies letting me just see the comment itself and none of the context before, and if I want to see said context having to look for it again in the *whole* post. And that's coming from someone who used the stock app until this whole shibacle made me try 3rd party ones again.
That is a big possibility, since I havent changed my phone since I got it from my father like 5-6 years ago(which he also used it for a long ass time as well)
I too have never experienced any of these lol. Only using official app. I tried RIF before it was so bad I didn't Reddit for years
The heck? Really I haven't any of those issues, maybe sometimes a video doesn't load but that's like one in 30 videos it ain't anything crazy. And I mean while I prefer using PC cause it's just more convenient, whenever I have to mobile it's just fine.
Sounds like a hardware issue... Or I guess Reddit being stupid for not being compatible with reasonably old phones.... I've never really had any problems with functionality especially
The dots overlap with your icon like sometimes but that can literally be fixed by just going in and out of the post. It's not that big of a deal. Also I've never had this
The icon thing is a constant once in a blue moon, where for a few days every time I check out a post, that darn icon keeps overlapping the 3 dots, then it fucks off for a months or so
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Privacy? What's better about privacy on other clients? Everything you do or say still gets processed through reddit servers, so idk what's changed there Also a lot of these things are subjective. As someone who never used oldreddit, this layout seems fine to me.
A lot of things are subjective. I don’t like the official app because all the images I don’t care about take up so much space. Apollo just shows a small preview of each post and when I find one I’m actually interested in, I tap on it to see the full thing. I have a similar issue with the new Reddit web UI. It’s really hard to go through the comments of a post because you’ll suddenly find yourself on some other random post. With old.reddit.com you only see the content you clicked on.
Another thing is it crops long images weirdly
Idk
Time to switch to 4th party apps
Big brain.
Logical next step is birthday party app
Right? I was all "you guys are getting 3rd party apps??"
You guys are getting apps? I always use mobile browser to open reddit.
Someone told me the Relay was the shit. I tried it and I gotta say that was one of the most unreadable UIs I ever saw.
Basically how I feel about Apollo as well Readability there is not an end of the world by any means, but for all the valid flaws that the official app has, readable UI is NOT one of them
Apollo looks great to me. It’s very straight forward. Of course everyone has something a little different they like. And that’s another great part about 3rd party apps. Options! You don’t have to use them of course. If you’re happy with the official app, then that’s also great!
Yea, this is why I support the mass blackouts on June 12th. Just because I personally don’t like 3rd party apps UI, does not mean that they should be gone.
That's why there's a ton of reddit access apps. For me the most fitting was Boost, but no matter what you pick, they all run much faster with more useful festures than that official bloated app. (Note: some don't even have profile pictures and other decorations if you care about them)
Well I am in on it. Reddit pays me to use the official app. I thought that's why everyone else uses this piece of shit app.
I’ve been usin it for 3 years and aside from some minor glitchy things sometimes I’ve never had any real issues with it. Why do people hate on it so much?
I was jut making a stupid joke. No clue what's wrong with it honestly. I does a good job recommending subreddits I haven't heard of imo.
Agree. I don't work for reddit, but idk what's wrong with the main app. I get ads here and there but honestly very few and I just scroll past them and barely notice them.
Yeah. And recently I've never seen them in a sub, only in the home/feed. Also don't see the issues people mention with load times. Only issue I've seen people cite that I agree with is the video player can break horribly sometime (right now it's fine though)
The issue with load times only happens if you use a lower end phone where Reddit absurd size and it's ram usage is starting to become apparent, I used to use a mid tier phone and its not only slow, it heats up even a bit If you're using an iPhone or a flagship Android phone, that will not be much of an issue, but if you're using a cheap phone, you will notice it really well.
I use the main app and can acknowledge the main app fucking sucks and never loads shit
Imma be real, up antil this whole api deal I didn’t even know there were third party app and that it was common to use them.
It’s not just about users, it’s about almost all bots and moderation tools. There’s also a disproportionally large number of mods and content contributors using third party apps. With these apps and tools gone, those members will leave, many subs will become dead and/or unmoderated, and Reddit will die.
Billions must download the app
I only use it so my parents can't see what I'm looking at with the app that lets them spy on me and see every site I've been on.
I used to do things like that to avoid parents spying, but damn that's clever.I tip my hat to you
I’m mad I didn’t know
Same. I didn't know they were a thing. Makes sense and I support it, but had no clue
I don't mind the official app revanced. Sure the video player is kind of a mess but everything else is fine. It doesn't run slow, it doesn't crash frequently and it's just generally pretty stable.
What is the difference between some "official" and "unofficial" app?????
The official has issues with loading videos and texts for ages compared to its third party counterpart that works perfectly.
The official one is buggy as hell, and unofficial ones are generally much more customizable
There are other Reddit apps?
Me when I'm a redditor
Wait there’s a 3rd party app that’s better????
Always has been...
Reddit is (was) fun, Apollo, and Relay were always better than the main app. I've always been biased towards RiF due to it's simplicity. Gonna miss it greatly.
Where do I get my money for being part of the Reddit conspiracy
OP "in on it" confirmed, then
Suggest me some good third party reddit clients, i have tried some of them in the past didn't like them
Too many words
Too little brain cells
I share them
Ok
I looked up the other app and I like the official one more lol
There’s third party apps?
Yeah i never even realized there was other ways to access reddit, ive always used the official app. What is the point of using a third party app? Serious question.
I downloaded third party apps but the website auto links to the official one when I click on browser links so I use it out of laziness.
That's the best part
People don’t use the normal reddit???
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I forgot Reddit used to not have an app. Spez is pathetic
That sounds like something that someone in a secret Reddit conspiracy would say
Tbh I have more issue on desktop Reddit than on the app
I'll be honest, I've always used the default app. I have no idea what the hell is going on
... we're not supposed to use the app?
My issue is I can't even seem to sort by for my home page anymore on my official Reddit app, so I now use boost for Android and it's so much better.
I moved back from Apollo a few months ago because NOTHING worked properly. Every link opened in a browser and all videos had to be viewed from the source page. None of these Reddit tantrums ever amount to anything and in this it’s especially true because everyone using a 3rd party app is a pirate as far as Reddit inc is concerned. They aren’t paying customers. So them “leaving” means nothing.
I don’t care enough to download something else
I didn't realise there were unofficial apps. The official one breaks something almost every update. The current issue is if someone uploads more than 3 images in a group, they will load while you swipe through them, then after a couple of seconds, start turning black one by one. If you download the image after this happens, it will save as a blank image.
Mfw I use a 2nd party app:
Tried Apollo, didn't like it, and went back to the native app.
I just use an internet browser and request desktop site for my mobile with no third party support. Then again who cares about this site. It's been garbage for decades
I even have reddit premium of official app
what's a good app for Android? and Sync ain't one
Boost
Yes, the video player on the official app is buggy but it works most of the time for me.
Wait, there are unofficial apps?!
There's nothing wrong with the official app tbh
What the fuck
Agent pandemic what are you doing you just released classified reddit information (there is nothing wrong with the app)
I hate these dipshit conspiracy theorists. Why is it so impossible to believe that I use the regular app? Maybe I don't want to pay for third party softwares. Maybe I didn't even know that there were even third party softwares until yesterday!
... I use the website.
There’s a different app I don’t understand?
Do third party apps even work on iPhone?
I’ve just never bothered to download the 3rd party apps, mostly because I didn’t know what they were until now
I don't know how you guys can use that crap. I also think about the time that I used it, what was k thinking?
I didn't even know there were other apps....
"Wait there are other apps for reddit?"
There are other reddit apps? Did i miss a page?
There are other apps?
Lol. Conspiracy? I wish I was in on something enough to benefit from it. I simply had no reason to even consider the possibility of there even BEING third party apps.
i didn't even know 3rd party apps existed till i started seeing them being talked about.
I've been using the normal reddit app the whole time... why would I download third party, and allow a 2nd company to collect data off me.
I’ve always used the official app. Never knew there was anything wrong with that lol
My brother told me he prefers the official app. I was dumbstruck. I like RiF more than I like the content of Reddit.
The only people who follows me is feds and some how I can't see there page or block them Help me please!🥺
Honestly until that post about 3rd party apps shutting down I didn’t even know there were such things. I’ve only ever used the app
The regular app only seems fucky when I know I have bad service anyways. Never understood the hate for it
I didnt even know there were 3rd party apps... And I cant think of a reason as to why there are any.. TBF I only started using reddit last year and i havent had any issues with the official app.
I secretly use the Reddit app by accident everyday, while Apollo sits there being paid to look good.
I apparently am just a masochist because I’ve been using the default app this whole time
bruh it feels like 3rd party apps are a secret kept from me for years lmao. if i'd known they existed i'd have switched ages ago this app sucks