Reddit's garbage app just keeps getting worse

MyNameIsIgglePiggle, 10 months ago

Get that app outta your phones mouth

altima_neo, 10 months ago

NGL, I had this happen with sync a few times in the past

sploosh, 10 months ago

That’s definitely true, but Sync also fixed it a while back.

DTFpanda, 10 months ago

Sync is also one dev while reddit employs over 50 devs for their mobile app alone.

ikidd, 10 months ago

They’re fucking it up 50X faster than a single dev could accomplish.

Oh, and they have all the access to the backend that no third party app developer has. What a fucking pack of amateurs.

Pandoras_Can_Opener, 10 months ago

I think the number of devs compounds the fuck up rate.

altima_neo, 10 months ago

There’s no way they’ve got 50 devs working on that.

DTFpanda, 10 months ago

You’re right, apparently it’s more like 200.

ljdawson, 10 months ago

I was going to say. Once you were 6(?) replies deep Sync would show “Continue thread” and open in a window so you wouldn’t get that happening…

sploosh, 10 months ago

Thanks for the hard work mate, I hear the next beta is gonna blow us all away. Also I’m looking forward to posting.

TheloniusFuegoRhymes, 10 months ago

This is fucking hilarious dude. And some still wonder why so many people were up in arms haha

Pandoras_Can_Opener, 10 months ago

I’m slowly reaching the point where I wonder how the majority of mobile users apparently always used reddit official “app”. Like… there’s more effective ways to torture yourself if you’re into that…

Aagje_D_Vogel, 10 months ago

As a solution, you can always have it being read to you by the accessibility feat- ohh wait.

Imgonnatrythis, 10 months ago

You should try Lemmy bruh. Since you already installed it, write a one star playstore review then delete and never look back.

CoolSouthpaw, 10 months ago

r/softwaregore lmao

But also, I know Sync is gone but there are other third party apps still clinging on like Relay. So why are you still using the official app?

Zuberi, 10 months ago

Why are either of you still on reddit at all?..

viking, 10 months ago

Sync? Gone? Sync moved to Lemmy and it’s gorgeous.

And then there’s the cracked sync client that just works… github.com/Liz-chan/sink-for-everyone/releases/

Apparently it’s using the API key of some official function (or even app?) and spoofs the corresponding user agent, so it can’t be easily detected.

Sync won’t be updated any longer, so once reddit messes with the API again, functions will break eventually. But for now it works.

kn0wmad1c, 10 months ago

The fuck is “3 people are typing”

HonoraryMancunian, 10 months ago

Reddit’s attempt to pique your interest

infyrin, 10 months ago

I think that’s Reddit’s pitiful attempt to make the site seem ‘lively’.

Wav_function, 10 months ago

They should stop

BearPear, 10 months ago

Reddit has typing indicators. I did not know that.

But why?

fede, 10 months ago

Reminds me of old tumblr

LazaroFilm, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

And you notice that because…. YOU WERE ON THE REDDIT APP! Uninstall that crap! (Sorry not sorry for all caps)

koyo, 10 months ago

yeah its so slow and buggy. i was on boost then all this shit happebed.

boost for lemmy when.

DerKriegs, 10 months ago

Not sure I’m going to support it when there all plenty of decent free third party apps. Been using Jerboa since I made the switch, and have enjoyed the interface quite a bit.

I just can’t get behind the idea of paying for the ad free experience. Still support the developer, but it better not be like Sync’s $20.

Okalaydokalay, 10 months ago

If only they had other alternatives to it. Nah, they’ll get it eventually.

Pandoras_Can_Opener, 10 months ago

Any day now.

saltesc, 10 months ago

If you’re that deep into a thread, it ain’t worth it anyway.

cdf12345, 10 months ago

I accidentally reinstalled it a few weeks ago. Never opened it. Today I got a push notification and I’ve never opened the app of logged in. What a bunch of shit.

billy_bollocks, 10 months ago

The hottest of garbage

PM_Your_Nudes_Please, 10 months ago

Yeah, the random push notifications were the main reason I uninstalled it before the whole API thing even started. I was logged in but never used it because I had Apollo. The only reason I even had it was because Apollo’s “Open in Apollo” function didn’t seem to work 100% of the time.

The official app would send me push notifications for trending posts on subs I wasn’t even subscribed to. I quickly got tired of it, and uninstalled it after like a week. Never looked back, and switched entirely to Apollo. Once the API shit hit the fan, I walked away and haven’t missed it. Looking back at all the background activity that the official app had, (it’s horrible for battery life because of all the massive amounts of telemetry it sends) I’m half convinced that the push notifications were simply an attempt to keep the app open in the background. Like if you force-closed it, they’d occasionally send you notifications simply to get you to open the app for a second so it can run in the background again.

dragoness, 10 months ago

I was getting emails also. All of a sudden reddit decided I needed to know what subreddits were trending via email. I’d tell it to quit sending me that shit and it would send them again after like 2 weeks.

fluke, 10 months ago

At least for Android you can turn off push notifications. Long press the notification in question on the top pull down menu and pick your options.

Applicable for all apps, not just Reddit. Somhandy to silence irritating Uber Eats or Twitter crap.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please, 10 months ago

You can do that in iOS too. But having notifications enabled for messages was nice. The problem was that the app didn’t have an obvious way to disable only the spammy notifications.

OpenStars, 10 months ago

I dunno, it seems like it accomplishes its primary purpose well enough? Too bad for you that purpose is to deliver ads to the user to see while doomscrolling...and nothing else.:-(

Zoldyck, 10 months ago

Well, delete it?

Bipta, 10 months ago

And don't forget to leave it a negative review.