Reddit is one of my most used website. I am preferring many subs over established forums, eg r/apple, r/ipad over Macrumors, sometimes r/programming over HN, very often r/javascript and so on. I welcome Reddit's new native clients. Who knows, maybe we see soon some more and significant innovations than just being another Reddit client which employs the standard API.
Thank you, greenspot! The team has been working very hard on mobile and we're aiming for this to be the first of many updates. Meet some of the folks behind it and hear how we're thinking about it: https://youtu.be/6IWMbdAuy1M
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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...
Hmm, works for me. But fair enough, I see the point.
Reddit (as a page) is still up and running for everyone. I can't see how an app would be more controversial.
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#53Would it have hurt them to include a single phone running Android in their announcement?
I've no confidence that this won't be some sort of half-assed browser-based app which doesn't follow Android's conventions.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If they do that, they would break every 3rd party reddit app, which reddit said they wouldn't do. Of course, that doesn't mean their position will change in the future.
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#55I thought the whole point of not doing mobile apps themselves was because it's a waste of engineering time since there's a massive community that will do the work for them. I would much rather see them focus on making the site better.
It's another case of "Not Invented Here" syndrome. It's a good indicator of bad management.
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#56HTC One M8 not eligible for install! What?
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#57The last progressive web thread on HN mentioned this app for HN: https://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ and I love it. Does anyone know of something similar for Reddit?
There's http://reedditapp.com/about/
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#58Earlier 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…
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)
Exactly, so far as I know Reddit already responsibly complies with subpoenas. Secret is designed to defeat that process and is completely unlike Reddit.
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#59With 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 agree with a lot of your points, especially comment flair and swiping gestures (I used the quick swipe left to collapse comment threads 100s of times a day). I'm not a mod so I never used those features of Alien Blue.
However, I like the organization of the app more. Pictures are automatically displayed in the feed and require no clicks (gif/gyf support is badly needed, though), it has infinite scrolling, and there are essentially two browse sections: one for the front page and the other for browsing individual subreddits. It's nice to be able to switch to a specific subreddit and then go back to the front page exactly where you were.
It also seems faster than Alien Blue. With AB I would encounter "dead" links that wouldn't load many times a day, and I haven't seen one with the new app. Pages and images load much quicker than AB.
I'm switching to the new app and hope they add new features soon.
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#60What 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...
Well everyone is using the official Twitter app so I think it did. No one cares about API availability except a very small subset of developers.