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Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#31

Post by jbob2000 »

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…

They were generous with the gold because they're probably going to shut AlienBlue down. AB doesn't have any ads, they can't make money off those users.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#32

Post by alexcharlie »

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 different places to get back into those stores. See: Secret in Brazil.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

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Post by sschueller »

What I don't understand is why is reddit putting so much effort in their own apps now when there are very good 3rd party apps available?

Is the end goal to take control of mobile and close down the API so they can shove ads down peoples throats?

It didn't work out well for twitter...

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#34

Post by minimaxir »

morley wrote: post #27
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…

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.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#35

Post by ihuman »

morley wrote: post #27
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…

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

I wasn't expecting it to immediately have every single feature that AlienBlue had. With the amount of time they had been working on it (and the number of developers working on it), I was expecting it to have at least half of them.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#36

Post by tokenizerrr »

zamalek wrote: post #20
Mithaldu wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your failure here is not that you are not making it available, but that you failed to communicate this limit in ability. The flow for me was "hey neat", click link to reddit page , "ok, this looks good", click link to google play store , click green Install button , 'none of your devices are compatible', "what in the ever-loving ...?", go to hn comments , "oh goddamn, not again". That could've been MUCH shorter and M…

Additionally, it's highly unlikely that potential users will bother continuously checking to determine if the restriction on their region has yet been lifted - given that they can continue to use the competition. Tomorrow I will have forgotten about this app. This should have been sorted out before the launch.

Yep. Was going to try this app, but can't. Don't think I'll ever bother again, I'm happy with Relay for Reddit after all.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#37

Post by ihuman »

jbob2000 wrote: post #31
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…

They were generous with the gold because they're probably going to shut AlienBlue down. AB doesn't have any ads, they can't make money off those users.

They're not shutting AlienBlue down, but they removed it from the App Store, and they are not updating it anymore.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#38

Post by notatoad »

Mithaldu wrote: post #21
werid wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://twitter.com/reddit/status/718067681438539778 "Reddit anywhere with our app for iPhone & Android" Replies are filled with people from countries where they can't get it.

Wow, "anywhere" makes it actively worse.

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.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#39

Post by Mithaldu »

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…

Thanks for the details on why you're doing it slowly. Can you please also explain why you did not do either of the things i mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447494 Or maybe say whether you even plan to do any of them. It's easy to go "yeah they're just self-focused", but it would be nice to know what the actual process was.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#40

Post by asd »

basch wrote: post #29
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…

would you prefer homebrew integration or standard ones through the ios share apis?

Ideally, the iOS share apis. I use the Pinner app and they have two ways to save to pinboard via the share apis- a "quick pin" method where you click once and forget it (what I usually do) and the regular way, where you can add tags, etc.
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