Reddit @lemmy.world

1y ago

Reddit's garbage app just keeps getting worse

90 comments

Stop using it then 🤷‍♂️
- Spez hates him for discovering this one weird trick.
  
  Fuck u/spez
  
  But I like him/her/them even more!
- Still have Apollo installed, and just installed Mlem. At this point I‘m not going to bother with going back to the frontpage of unawnsered questions
  
  i haven't mustered up the emotional fortitude to uninstall rif yet. still, i seem to have gotten out of the habit of absent mindedly opening it
- Noooo I gotta write "~~fellate~~ fuck spez" so other ppl on reddit see that I am totally totally against reddit. Just gonna buy some reddit gold to really drive home the point!!!
  
  Reddit nfts I hope you mean

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- In dark mode, that actually looks like a LOL LOLing through space.
  I swear I haven't had psychadellics. In fact, it'd probably be a mesmerising trap on psychadellics.
  
  Phone text, in general, is interesting on psychedelics. For me, text just turns into an incomprehensible squiggles that look kind of like letters but absolutely aren't. Things that look dull usually tend to stay that way during a trip. Bright colors and tie-die are awesome though.
- if y o u e v e r r e a ll y n e e d

Well, delete it?
- And don't forget to leave it a negative review.

I am in disbelief, the last time I used reddit this was a solved issue, and now they've gone and I solved it??
- Regressions are a side effect of big buisness planning! 💪
- it's evolving, just backwards!
  
  It's gone to Warp 10 and is turning into a newt!

The fuck is "3 people are typing"
- They should stop
- Reddit's attempt to pique your interest
- Reddit has typing indicators. I did not know that.
  But why?

This is fucking hilarious dude. And some still wonder why so many people were up in arms haha
- I'm slowly reaching the point where I wonder how the majority of mobile users apparently always used reddit official "app". Like... there's more effective ways to torture yourself if you're into that..

"accessibility? what accessibility?" - reddit app
- Hey, at least they're being equitable about it, and making the site equally inaccessible for everyone!

Ah yes, you have reached the Loom. The hidden gateway into the threadiverse. One must strum the threads to the ballad of federation to find the hidden nymph, Lemmy. Guiding one towards the oasis of --- okay im done. lol

Get that app outta your phones mouth

Look at all those gorgeous lines, truly the peak of UX engineering
- Kind of like The Matrix if The Matrix was braindead.

And you notice that because…. YOU WERE ON THE REDDIT AP! Uninstall that crap! (Sorry not sorry for all caps)

I'm glad that I don't use Reddit anymore, unless forced.
Even when forced, I feel dirty.
- Nobody forcing you my dude/lady.
  
  Forced, no. But as a dev, Google leads me to a lot of reddit posts for troubleshooting and discussion.
  
  Reddit was an essential part of the internet. Thankfully it's been mostly archived.
  Losing the data from Reddit would be a catastrophe on the level of the library of Alexandra.
  The people who run Reddit know all of this and thus the reason they want some much money for things like the API.

I remember before I got a third party app that the official app would only show up to 10 nested comments. This meant if you replied to the last comment, it would never actually show up for mobile app users, since there was no "view more comments" button or anything.
So it would seem that they finally fixed that issue...
- 🤣🤣🤣

That's a lotta lines of shit LOL!

I accidentally reinstalled it a few weeks ago. Never opened it. Today I got a push notification and I’ve never opened the app of logged in. What a bunch of shit.
- Yeah, the random push notifications were the main reason I uninstalled it before the whole API thing even started. I was logged in but never used it because I had Apollo. The only reason I even had it was because Apollo’s “Open in Apollo” function didn’t seem to work 100% of the time.
  The official app would send me push notifications for trending posts on subs I wasn’t even subscribed to. I quickly got tired of it, and uninstalled it after like a week. Never looked back, and switched entirely to Apollo. Once the API shit hit the fan, I walked away and haven’t missed it. Looking back at all the background activity that the official app had, (it’s horrible for battery life because of all the massive amounts of telemetry it sends) I’m half convinced that the push notifications were simply an attempt to keep the app open in the background. Like if you force-closed it, they’d occasionally send you notifications simply to get you to open the app for a second so it can run in the background again.
  
  I was getting emails also. All of a sudden reddit decided I needed to know what subreddits were trending via email. I'd tell it to quit sending me that shit and it would send them again after like 2 weeks.
  
  At least for Android you can turn off push notifications. Long press the notification in question on the top pull down menu and pick your options.
  Applicable for all apps, not just Reddit. Somhandy to silence irritating Uber Eats or Twitter crap.
- The hottest of garbage

Their app really is fucking bad. I don't get who thought it was good enough to stand alone
- Better let some mods have absolute control of it.

yeah its so slow and buggy. i was on boost then all this shit happebed.
boost for lemmy when.
- Not sure I'm going to support it when there all plenty of decent free third party apps. Been using Jerboa since I made the switch, and have enjoyed the interface quite a bit.
  I just can't get behind the idea of paying for the ad free experience. Still support the developer, but it better not be like Sync's $20.

Never seen official reddit app before, doesn't look good.

Just another reason to use Lemmy: our's is a rainbow! 🏳️‍🌈
- As someone who is visually impaired, separating by colors is much easier to keep track on

As a solution, you can always have it being read to you by the accessibility feat- ohh wait.

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I'm pretty sure it's been like this for a long time, too
- I remember getting a new phone and somehow i downloaded reddit instead of boost. I thought Ah come on, how bad can it be, let's try one more round. 5 minutes in I ended up like this and noped out of there. I still miss my reddit communities a bit, but as a mobile user there is no going back.

r/softwaregore lmao
But also, I know Sync is gone but there are other third party apps still clinging on like Relay. So why are you still using the official app?
- Sync? Gone? Sync moved to Lemmy and it's gorgeous.
  And then there's the cracked sync client that just works... https://github.com/Liz-chan/sink-for-everyone/releases/
  Apparently it's using the API key of some official function (or even app?) and spoofs the corresponding user agent, so it can't be easily detected.
  Sync won't be updated any longer, so once reddit messes with the API again, functions will break eventually. But for now it works.
- Why are either of you still on reddit at all?..

NGL, I had this happen with sync a few times in the past
- That's definitely true, but Sync also fixed it a while back.
  
  Sync is also one dev while reddit employs over 50 devs for their mobile app alone.
  
  I was going to say. Once you were 6(?) replies deep Sync would show "Continue thread" and open in a window so you wouldn't get that happening...

We know, that's why most of us are here

They prefer investing in crypto shit before fixing that trash app

It has more lines than a play.

Even a Nokia phone is better

Just go to the permalink of the lower level comme... oh, right.

Whose garbage app? Never heard of this "red dit" place. What's a "dit" and why isn't it some other color?
- I think I understand where you made the mistake, it’s not red dit, I think it’s supposed to be re ddit. It’s where they “did it” again (or “re did it”) but like All those other early 2000’s sites they just dropped a vowel so it’s just re ddit.
  
  Ah, a common mistake to make. It's not 're-ddit,' Im pretty sure it comes from 'reddi-t' as in "Ready Tea" but like many early 2000s websites they tried to make it sound more approachable, so it's just 'reddi-t' as your cup of tea will be cool enough to drink by the time it's transmitted all your data.

I dunno, it seems like it accomplishes its primary purpose well enough? Too bad for you that purpose is to deliver ads to the user to see while doomscrolling...and nothing else.:-(