How many of you use a 3rd-party app to browse Reddit?
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Sync IS Reddit to me since I haven’t used my desktop for primary browsing of the site in years. It’s a shame Reddit is disappearing shortly.
Yeah, after I started using Sync and they did the redesign, desktop browsing felt so slow. Even old.reddit felt clunky compared to Sync.
Rif. Working on understanding this ui
RiF since I found Reddit so many years ago. I’ve tried others but they never stuck.
I desperately want a RiF clone for interacting with Lemmy. If RiF does actually shut down at the end of the month, I really hope talklittle open-sources it.
I’ve been a RiF diehard for about a decade, but I’ll definitely give Sync for Lemmy a try when it’s available.
What I’m really interested in is this. If this gets completed, theoretically any existing third-party reddit app could update the API URL it hits and their app would pretty much “just work” with Lemmy, they’d just need to add an option for the user to input their home instance’s URL and their credentials. It was started by @derivator
@tool @derivator that could be awesome, any way to bring over the apps that made reddit great
Still working on this, help is welcome :)
Unfortunately I don’t know shit about Rust. I use Python/PowerShell/Bash/some C#/etc daily for my job, but I haven’t touched Rust at all.
What would you say the learning curve would be based on the languages I’ve worked in?
The one thing that takes a bit to get used to is the borrow checker. Advice there is don’t fight it. Trust the compiler to tell you your code is wrong. Once you understand the ownership/borrowing rules, it’s honestly just a joy to code in. Static typing protects you from the inevitable mess that every large python project becomes, and the borrow checker gives you the comfort and safety you’ve come to expect from memory safe languages without the overhead of a garbage collector.
Ok. I’ll give it a try some time this weekend, thanks for the tip. Hopefully I can contribute in the future.
Sync all the way
I used Sync up until last week.
Won’t be back.
This will be an insanely biased poll
I used RiF. Tried a few other apps over the years, but nothing beat the clean, uncluttered UI.
Yes! Rif is amazingly accessible from a neurodiversity standpoint.
Well… Not anymore I don’t
Yeah, seems like this poll is missing an important “I did before leaving Reddit” option.
During my 13.5 years of Reddit, I’ve used at least these, in possibly this order
- Alien Blue (RIP)
- Bacon Reader
- Reddit is Fun
- Reddit Sync
- Joey, for the last ~6 years
Don’t browse Reddit anymore, apps or browser. If I do end up visiting via Google, I use old.reddit.com.
Boost is still my favorite. I’m done after the third party apps are gone. Going to block Reddit in my router to stop me on desktop haha.
I used Baconreader, Relay, and in 2014 got Sync pro and have used that ever since.
I stopped using reddit for the blackout and have been trying Jerboa and /kbin since then.
Love me some baconreader. The official app is just not pleasant to use.
I was a baconreader person too but I deleted it and moved 100% to beehaw when things started getting weird at that other place
When I had an iPhone 3+ years ago, Apollo was the only way I interacted with Reddit. Once I switched to Android, I cycled through the choices before settling pretty happily with Boost. I don’t intend to access or use Reddit on mobile at all once June 30th rolls around, and after the CEO’s public comments since the protest, I don’t really want to access it on desktop either.
It is relay for me on Android. Apparently, they are going to continue with a subscription version that won’t get NSFW content. Why would I start paying for a worse product? Not to mention that I bought the ad free version way back.
Relay and reddit are one of the two non open source stacks I rely on, with the other being windows and steam for gaming. And it has bit me in the butt. The lesson to be learned is clear- no more closed source anything from here on out. Steps will be taken.
Also a soon to be former Relay user, and it looks like dbrady is having trouble making the subscription numbers work too:
"I’m still looking into it, gathering data etc. Unfortunately the average call rates when broken down to the top 2, 5, 10% etc of users is painting a much different picture. This is the cohort of users I would expect to possibly convert to a subscription model and the average rates for those users can be 3,4,5 even 600 hundred calls per day just by the shear amount they use the app. Some of the top users are well over 1000 per day and sometimes over 2000.
So I’m not sure yet. It would probably have to be a usage based subscription model if it was going to be anything and I’m not sure that’s worth doing. I am still looking into it but unfortunately I don’t think my earlier price points will work." From r/relayforreddit pinned post
I was using Apollo before… well… you know, everything.
I was a RedditIsFun/RiF user when I was mobile but mostly I was a keyboard user on a laptop/desktop.
I was losing interest in Reddit over recent years due to the mobile user influx (terse posters, lots of memes and TXT-speak) but thanks to the last few weeks, I have lost nearly all of my interest in Reddit.
I’m really not a joiner or a protester – I’m rather pragmatic about all of this stuff. But the fact is that Reddit Inc. has by its actions alienated the users most responsible for making Reddit a thing that I enjoyed. It is already to late to recover from that.
Reddit Inc. could do a 180-degree turn today and it won’t matter much. In the rough-and-tumble of all of Reddit Inc.'s self-inflicted nonsense, the users they lost (the heart of Reddits culture and spirt) have discovered life beyond Reddit. It looks doable. A month ago, that was fairly unthinkable. Come back? To what? The main reason for Reddit being compelling to me won’t return, leaving behind a rather less-interesting Reddit community. I doubt it will attract me.
To me, this just shortened Reddit’s long tail. Reddit was already dying a slow death, but this nonsense has made it faster. My current usage is now a small fraction of what it used to me (I have 100 MB of comments and posts submitted over the past 15 years). My guess is that there will be little left of interest in much shorter time span.
