Apollo / Reddit app, API shenanigans.
the reddit app used to have these issuiesSo after being on Sync Pro for all this time and now having to uninstall it, I have been instead using the reddit mobile site from Firefox on mobile for my on-the-go reddit browsing. It seems to work fine for the most part, you lose some stuff like push notifications etc.
But tonight I tried the official reddit app, I knew from reading about it that virtually everyone hates it whilst some tolerate it. it has a 2.3 score on the Android app store, and the reviews don't rate it highly either.
Colour me surprised when I log into the app and find it rather usable... There are obvious issues like when zooming on large res images the animation is slightly stuttery, for ref I am on an S23 Ultra so there's no reason why anything should stutter unless it's poorly optimised. Also, you can't pinch zoom on uploaded videos using the internal player - So some slight adjustment to get used but but on the whole the main reddit experience seems to be fine, can search subs, can view fav subs easily, can see messages vs chats from the nav bar, comment structure and usage appears to be fine too. I then made a post on a sub and uploaded 2x images, the post was easy enough and the images uploaded nicely too.
no idea if they have recently updated the app to be better than it was though, but if they have, then it's along the right tracks Id say.
The only annoyance I have really is that no matter what you are browsing, in each sub when scrolling you will see a "reddit business" banner about how you can advertise on reddit, yeah you can just scroll past it, but it's still an annoyance
1. videos barely ever played back, so completely pointless to view subreddits with videos.. often used to crash the app
2. it used to kill your battery for example apollo vs reddit for 10 minutes scrolling same subreddits at the same time 10-20% battery difference
3. ads everywhere
how are these issues?
Soldato
There's still a ton of ads everywhere
I'm still using Joey for Reddit and its still working. Although its a much smaller userbase than apollo, its still more than enough to blow out the api limit.
Bizzarely the dev has not responded to any questions in its sub reddit, so no one knows whats going on.
Once it goes pop, which could be any time, i'll delete my account and move to Lemmy.
Joey has ads, so not against ads or subscribing for a small fee, but not paying what are clearly extortionate fees to line reddits pockets.
Bizzarely the dev has not responded to any questions in its sub reddit, so no one knows whats going on.
Once it goes pop, which could be any time, i'll delete my account and move to Lemmy.
Joey has ads, so not against ads or subscribing for a small fee, but not paying what are clearly extortionate fees to line reddits pockets.
Man of Honour
1: Yet to find a video post that does not play the video, no issues here. Youtube clips load in the youtube app.
2: nothing to I've noticed yet, but not used it a full day yet so can't say but I'll be able to see battery stats this evening.
3: There are promoted ads/posts when scrolling any given sub, but it's not in your face etc, just an ad card that looks like a post but says "Promoted" by the side of the card header. I just scroll past them so not a major issue, just a thing to mention.
Soldato
RIF still working for me, suppose it could/will disappear anytime now.
Man of Honour
I do like a couple of things that I've not seen in third party apps too:
1: Playing embedded videos, you can click the comments button and read comments with the video pane shrinking to the top of the screen and still visible, keeps things fluid. Clicking back expands the video again to full width.
2: When playing an embedded video from the front page, if it's a video from a cats sub, then when you scroll up on the playing video, you will get other videos with cats or related content. Much like how reels on Instagram works. kinda neat. When you click back on the phone, you go back to the position you were at on the main page.
1: Playing embedded videos, you can click the comments button and read comments with the video pane shrinking to the top of the screen and still visible, keeps things fluid. Clicking back expands the video again to full width.
2: When playing an embedded video from the front page, if it's a video from a cats sub, then when you scroll up on the playing video, you will get other videos with cats or related content. Much like how reels on Instagram works. kinda neat. When you click back on the phone, you go back to the position you were at on the main page.
You hate the Reddit app that much that you would rather delete your account?
You monster, clearly the official app is drowning kittens and exploiting 3rd world children.
/sarcasm.
My experience of the official app is the same as yours, ads are annoying but understandable given it's a platform I am using for free. Paying for premium would eliminate that if I really cared enough.
Its not just about the app, its reddits approach to crush 3rd party apps with virtually no notice.You hate the Reddit app that much that you would rather delete your account?
Reddit could easily have made numerous compromises, negotiated in good faith with both developers and its user base, and still made a fair profit. Instead it looked at how well Twitter is going and thought, yeah thats how you do it.
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Commissario
I had a reddit account which I barely used because I found the official app to be awful. I discovered Apollo and my Reddit usage increased hugely.You hate the Reddit app that much that you would rather delete your account?
I did try the official app again, it was just as bad. I deleted my account(s). I'd rather not bother than have to go back to the official app.
If Apollo comes back with a decent subscription model, I'll sign up again.
Soldato
No notice? They announced the closure of it 2 months ago lmao
Closing ? Its supposodly still running, but the rates have been set so high as to make it pretty much unworkable and force 3rd party apps off reddit.
2 months ? 2 weeks. In April reddit announced it would be making changes in the future with no detail on pricing or timing , app devs were told it was probably a year away. On 19th June reddit announced it would change on the 1st July. If you think thats a reasonable time line then maybe you should knock off the lmao gas.
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Fake news, not what happened at all. The Reddit owners have lied time and time again, including claiming to have been threatened on a phone call, for which they didn’t realise was recorded, where there were no threats. They are utter cretins.
Indeed.
Anyone who uses the official app clearly doesn’t read very quickly or loves random nonsense content Vs an actual curated and sleek presentation of the subreddits they want to read.
It’s like seeing 4 links with giant half screen adverts, 3 of which are click bait nonsense, Vs 10 links with zero adverts and full thread titles and information. Utterly different experiences.
Soldato
Well ok i am not too bothered still.
The app works. It's fine and even if it stops working it's not the end of the world.
Soldato
