How many of you use a 3rd-party app to browse Reddit?
I use Infinity since its open source
Also available on fdroid (until July 1st, of course)
Goodbye, infinity. It was good while it lasted. 🫡
Well… Not anymore I don’t
Yeah, seems like this poll is missing an important “I did before leaving Reddit” option.
Same. Used both RIF and Apollo through the years. Haven’t used anything for a week now.
I had grown quite fond of the app Infinity over the past years. I uninstalled it last Sunday. I’ve also deleted all my Reddit content yesterday. Honestly I had thought it would be more painful to see all that go down the drain. But after a week away from Reddit I didn’t even care about any of it anymore.
Honestly I just picked up reading books and it’s so nice
I’m reading a lot more too.
RiF for 10 years.
Same, until they announced it’d be shutting off at the end of the month. Damn shame, but oh well, it beats sticking around waiting for the end.
I’ve always used RiF - it duplicates the desktop layout better than the others, along with so many other features. Wish its developer was moving on to a Lemmy app, but he’s cranking out one for Tildes instead.
I still use it to lurk - the shitstorm over there is quite amusing, read the latest announcement at r/videos. Yes, nothing but John Oliver videos - but the screed this is delivered with is a thing of beauty.
I use Infinity and have found it to be absolutely excellent. I wish I could continue to use it rather than leave altogether.
I am also a long time infinity user, Jerboa feels fairly similar to me.
Using that too now. Could do with collapsing threads and skipping to next / previous top level comment and I’d be a little happier. But otherwise quite pleased.
What do you mean by collapsing threads? Currently if you clicked on a comment, it should collapse said comment and any children of the comment.
With regards to navigating to the next/previous top level comment, worth putting that as an “issue” on Jerboa’s GitHub as a feature request if one doesn’t exist for this feature already.
Haha, you’re right. I was trying to long press the comment to collapse it. I didn’t think of short tapping it!
Turns out there’s already an open issue on the prev/next buttons: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/542
Define “currently”… I still have rif on my phone but I haven’t used Reddit in a week
Yeah, “currently” is the wrong adverb to use. Relay and Boost were common apps I used and pretty much the only means I used to access Reddit. I only touched the desktop web app when I got a web search link.
This will be an insanely biased poll
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 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.
I’ve used RIF for nearly 10 years. I can’t stand the current state of the official app. It spends far too much time harassing you with useless notifications/info/recommendations for my taste and it’s a laggy mess.
Currently? No, because I quit reddit.
But when I was on reddit, I used Relay For Reddit Pro.
I had the same thought
Rif. Working on understanding this ui
When I was using reddit, I used Boost.
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.
@Pulptastic @lostwonder I don’t know why people are holding on. If u/spez can do what he is doing now who says he won’t do it again? Let’s say he let’s third-party apps back. It’s a matter of time when he shuts it down, this time for good!
e: Just delete your account
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
Sync for reddit pro for years, now using a browser for kbin.social.
I’ve been using Relay for maybe 10 years? It’s a bit of an underdog and doesn’t get spoken about a lot, but over the years I’ve tried a bunch of Reddit apps and Relay is the one I liked the most.
It used to be called “Reddit News” until Reddit cracked down on apps using “Reddit” in their name. Their rules changed to only allow “for Reddit” at the end of the name, so Reddit News became “Relay for Reddit”, rif (Reddit is Fun) became “rif is fun for Reddit”, etc.
I’m the same. Relay is so slick and I’m gutted about what is happening. Even if the dev manages to keep Relay going, I don’t want to support a company like Reddit who seem happy to shit all over their userbase in pursuit of profit.
That’s the exact same boat I’m in right now. I’ve been a big fan of Relay for years and I think it’s great that the developer will probably be able to keep the app going with a small monthly fee. I would even be willing to pay a small monthly fee, but I don’t want to support Reddit anymore. I haven’t pulled it up since the protest started.
It used to be Relay for me as well. Other apps had neat features I wish Relay had gotten as well, but I couldn’t get away from its neat UI and UX even though I tried pretty much every third-party reddit app there was.
I’m certainly sad to leave a handful of my favorite communities behind but Reddit overall can burn down for all I care. Even before the API BS and Huffmann lying through his teeth the Reddit experience had gotten more and more annoying aside from the coziest of subreddits.
Time to move on and perhaps some of the app devs try their hand at a sleek threadiverse app with all of the QoL goodies.
