• GhostMagician@beehaw.org
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    I wonder what percentage of the ones who were protesting the api but chose to stay and be active on reddit ended up downloading the official app.

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      There’s a few communities that haven’t made their way anywhere else at the moment, so I check in occasionally. No matter how much I want to engage with those communities though, the app keeps driving me away.

      It has mind bogglingly dumb features like: muting the music you’re listening to, broken images, battery drain, being generally sluggish. That’s on top of sponsored posts, suggested posts and a terrible blocking system

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        sponsored posts, suggested posts

        I had hated that aspect of Twitter which is what chased me away to stopping use of an actual account altogether and settling for nitter instead to keep track of accounts but no longer participating. But, it was so much better with how clean it was with apps like Fritter or RSS done through nitter instances so I only saw what I wanted. Now that’s looking like method is reaching its end.

        The clutter they tried to push on me wasn’t worth consuming the material the official way anymore.

        It was what killed Instagram for me years back too when they killed chronological feeds. Then I deleted the account and moved to using barnista to follow accounts without an account. Then that died and I just dropped Instagram altogether and didn’t look back, since I wasn’t going to make an account again and consume things the official way.

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        Boost for Reddit is still working for me, for some reason, even without the patch to use my own API key.

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          A couple of the apps agreed to do the subscription model and were granted a temporary exclusion from being blocked until the whole process is worked out.

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      The official app is full of so much garbage… Even if you remove the ads on Android with the ReVanced manager.

      Within the first 10 posts you see, there is always a ‘suggested’ one that is more than 5 days old. Who wants that?

      It almost feels like playing a flashy mobile game that wants you to spend money on every corner. It’s insane.

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      Luckily for the few communities that I haven’t found elsewhere yet, Relay is still working. I’m almost certainly not going to go for whatever subscription the developer ends up setting up (although I did buy Premium years back for it), so once that’s live, I guess I’m out on my phone. I still can’t believe how trash the official app is, and how it has moments of stutter even on my Pixel 7 Pro.

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      I tried to download the Reddit iOS app just to see if the UI was as garbage as everyone was claiming. It wouldn’t even load the front page fully before crashing, so I can’t even comment on the UI/UX.

      It’s not even like I have an old phone either, I was using an iPhone 13 Pro on iOS 16.4 or 16.5 (whatever the latest version was in early June when the API stuff was announced)