I used to use RiF back in the day when it was still a buggy mess. I don’t even remember when I moved to the native app. I don’t agree with Reddit’s policy update (why I’m here) but I thought the default app was fine for normal browsing. I never had issues with the video player or anything else.
I use Samsung Galaxy devices if that’s relevant.
I love your honesty. I expect for many people it’s more about losing what they’re comfortable with. For others there are legitimate functionalities that perhaps don’t exist yet in the native app - a former mod will need to chime in, as I’m not sure about specifics.
I found it completely asinine how it bitches at you when you take a screenshot and puts its watercolor on a downloaded image.
I used it. I still deleted by reddit account, because I’ll be damned if I’ll encourage enshittification, even if I like their app
I think most people who used the 3rd party apps also were the ones who were still sitting on old.reddit, myself incuded
The ads. Jesus. The ads that are dark design pattern close to normal posts. Ugh.
As a lifelong adblock user, I recognize your pain.
The native app is decent, if you haven’t tried any of the other third-party apps.
I joined Reddit back during the Alien Blue days and transitioned over to Apollo when it launched. Using the native app felt like I stumbled onto a porn-addled spyware site with the ads and quirky UI/UX.
It was possible to use after some time, but after a week, I noped out and went back to Apollo.
I tried it and went right back to baconreader
Nope. I used it as well. I just never had any particular problems.
Possibly - I neer interacted much on my old iphone SE, mostly I just use Firefox on the desktop.
It’s probably ok if you’re used to it, but 3rd party apps have so much QoL stuff that it’s awful to switch
I used the official app too. For whatever reason it always had issues with video playback and comments for me, but I still never switched to another app
Honestly I barely used it. If you use dark patterns to try to make me use a thing, the last thing I’m going to do is use that thing.
I mostly used RiF, but installed the official app during a trip last year to do logistics with someone who was using the built in chat.
I don’t tend to always have data on my phone, because WiFi is everywhere, and just add some when I’m going on a trip like this. I’d loaded up a fiver’s worth the morning we left, which usually sees me through an entire month in these situations.
Woke up after the first night away to an alert that my data was all used up. And on further investigation, guess which app was the culprit? Just literally sitting there overnight while I was asleep, gobbling up a month’s worth of data to do god knows what.
I uninstalled the app.
Yes, you are the one person in the world who used it.
