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Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#41

Post by spacehunt »

greenspot wrote: post #5
skrowl wrote: post #2

The official Reddit app for Android is pretty feature poor so far. It only offers a default theme and a dark theme. It only offers a default layout and a compact layout. No customization beyond that. No option to always view links in external browser and Imgur links aren't opened in the Imgur app (etc for other sites). It's nice that they've finally released an official app, but to use this instead of Bacon Reader /…

Not sure. Today, I was installing all your mentioned Reddit clients and deinstalling them right afterwards. While the first impression is good and they seem to offer lots of features they lack one important thing (at least the free versions)—to save a sub in a favorite list which is easy to access. Something which is essential and they don't offer it or hide it away in the paid version. Something btw which the Now Re…

I've never paid for Reddit is Fun, and I have easy access to subscribed subs and multireddits through the sidebar. Do these not do what you want?

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#42

Post by Mithaldu »

tokenizerrr wrote: post #36
zamalek wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That is until they pull a Twitter and kill those clients.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#43

Post by jbob2000 »

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…

This doesn't make any sense. If they would ban the app, wouldn't they also ban the website?

Secret is a different case, the purpose of the app is to anonymous communication, I can see why Brazil has a problem with it (mass protests recently, protestors probably using secret, amongst other things)

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#44

Post by k_lander »

alexis wrote: post #6
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.

We're now available in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia. Launching apps in other countries requires a little bit more diligence than just making a website available globally. I'm sorry it's not available in your country -- we're planning on getting it out everywhere.

"Launching apps in other countries requires a little bit more diligence than just making a website available globally"

could you expand on this?

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#45

Post by tokenizerrr »

Mithaldu wrote: post #42
tokenizerrr wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That is until they pull a Twitter and kill those clients.

They claim they are committed to supporting that free API[1]. And if they kill it, it would also kill all those reddit bots. There would be a massive outrage since many large subreddits rely on them for advanced automated moderation. There's AutoMod which they've integrated, but it's often not enough.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4dqxgt/reddi...

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#46

Post by basch »

asd wrote: post #40
basch wrote: post #29

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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.

k good. i never really liked that alien blue was sort of half and half. and the save picture button was broken, but the ios share save picture worked.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#47

Post by fwn »

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…

Let's keep in mind that you also didn't release it in much more open countries than the UK or the US.

If you worry that countries like Germany or Switzerland might censor you out of the market because of reddit controversities you'd probably overestimated reddits emotional potential.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#48

Post by Desustorm »

greenspot wrote: post #5
skrowl wrote: post #2

The official Reddit app for Android is pretty feature poor so far. It only offers a default theme and a dark theme. It only offers a default layout and a compact layout. No customization beyond that. No option to always view links in external browser and Imgur links aren't opened in the Imgur app (etc for other sites). It's nice that they've finally released an official app, but to use this instead of Bacon Reader /…

Not sure. Today, I was installing all your mentioned Reddit clients and deinstalling them right afterwards. While the first impression is good and they seem to offer lots of features they lack one important thing (at least the free versions)—to save a sub in a favorite list which is easy to access. Something which is essential and they don't offer it or hide it away in the paid version. Something btw which the Now Re…

Sync for reddit is very good! I have very few issues with it and it has the feature you mentioned out of the box.

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#49

Post by chroma »

fwn wrote: post #47
alexcharlie wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Let's keep in mind that you also didn't release it in much more open countries than the UK or the US. If you worry that countries like Germany or Switzerland might censor you out of the market because of reddit controversities you'd probably overestimated reddits emotional potential.

Their concerns seem grounded in reality, as Germany does censor Reddit[1].

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChillingEffects/comments/3gw9g1/201...

Re: Reddit for iOS and Android

#50

Post by jbob2000 »

ihuman wrote: post #37
jbob2000 wrote: post #31

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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.

They can shut it down by changing the reddit API so it no longer works, thus forcing users to switch to the new app.
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