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Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#111

Post by balladeer »

I don't use Reddit actively anymore (just when a link leads me to the site) but the last time used it actively and even today when I have to access the site on mobile my favourite app is Reddit Is Fun.[1]

Its free version[2] is as good. I just bought paid one[2] to support the fantastic app. They also have the source code of an old version[4] available online, though the app's current source is not open sourced I think.

I like this app for its:

- Simplicity

- Speed

- No nonsense approach to serving content

[1] https://www.talklittle.com/reddit-is-fun/

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu....

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu....

[4] https://github.com/talklittle/reddit-is-fun

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#112

Post by spike021 »

jscheel wrote: post #30
asd wrote: post #25

I think I now know why Reddit was so generous with all of the Gold. The app, although very fast and responsive on iOS, lacks many of the features that Alien Blue had. I could find zero integrations with any third party services. The cool thing about Alien Blue is, if I was a stoplight and didn't have time to read a linked article, I'd just add it to Pinboard and get back to it later. Another major failing - there isn…

I know Alien Blue is feature-packed, but I have always found it difficult to use.

I think the GUI wasn't that great, but the features were quite usable and helpful.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#113

Post by rpgmaker »

minimaxir wrote: post #34
morley wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This new app got released minutes ago. It's not going to be perfect out of the gate. Give it some time.

This app is not a one-week MVP of a side project released by a developer with zero resources. It is, however, an app with legitimate substitutes, so an incumbent must be equal or significantly greater.

On android, 'reddit is fun' is great. Because of it I was never wanting for an official app and I knew that whatever they released officially wasn't going to be that good. Not out of the gate anyways. So far the release of the official app has just been mildly inconvenient for me, 'reddit is fun' had to be slightly renamed and the icon changed. But whatever.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#114

Post by karmelapple »

ihuman wrote: post #10

With the purchase of AlienBlue over a year ago, I had high expectations for an official Reddit app. Seeing how hyped Jase (the developer behind AlienBlue) was about this app, I was expecting a less buggy version of AB with more features. Instead, what we got was a reddit app with less features. Here are my main issues with it: 1. No moderator support. With AlienBlue, we could read all of the Mod Mail, and remove post…

I'm guessing Alien Blue, as great as it is (I paid for it years ago!), was built on a foundation in need of major refactoring.

They probably made the call that many of us think about doing - though we rarely do it - of throwing everything out and starting from scratch, building from the ground up with all the past lessons learned.

If so, I think the ultimate measure of their success will be speed of iteration.

Even if it doesn't include everything alien blue has today in, say, 6 months, it will likely introduce plenty of other nice features, and for many users will be either a wash or nicer and more stable.

I'm curious to see what happens!

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#116

Post by School-Cotton »

alexcharlie wrote: post #32
zamalek wrote: post #4

> This item isn't available in your country. It's an app for Reddit. Go figure. I'll be sticking with Sync (Android), which doesn't have this bewildering region restriction, has tons of features and faithfully follows Material.

Countries can lean on Google and Apple and say "Get this app out of my country." We are rolling out one by one so that we can stay on top of the content reports. Reddit has a lot of potentially controversial content and countries have various levels of sensitivity to that. It would be counter productive to go global now, get banned in a bunch of places, and then have to fight protracted battles in a bunch of differen…

You opened it in exactly the set of Anglo-Saxon countries (minus New Zealand). You're saying this was a coincidence?

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#117

Post by School-Cotton »

794CD01 wrote: post #62
notatoad wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember Google doing the same thing when they launched their "Chromebooks are for everyone" ad campaign - you could only purchase one in the UK or the US. It's like companies are actively trying to annoy the region's they geo-block.

No, it's like what's actually true - that they don't think about those places and therefore do things like write slogans with the mindset that such people don't exist.

Even more likely: whoever wrote that copy isn't the same person as whoever decided on the geo-locking policy.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#118

Post by bmeckel »

ihuman wrote: post #10

With the purchase of AlienBlue over a year ago, I had high expectations for an official Reddit app. Seeing how hyped Jase (the developer behind AlienBlue) was about this app, I was expecting a less buggy version of AB with more features. Instead, what we got was a reddit app with less features. Here are my main issues with it: 1. No moderator support. With AlienBlue, we could read all of the Mod Mail, and remove post…

Jase has done VERY little work on the new app as far as I know. Pretty much all new devs.
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