this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I hate the official app with the fire of 1,000 suns. So if my only options are using the official app or leaving the site completely I’m leaving completely✌️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you soon of a removed, I'm in

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You son of a removed, I'm in too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Reddit's official app, and in fact Reddit's official website is a hugely compromised experience, and I suspect the only reason they haven't gone further is that they don't want to push people to the alternatives. However this latest move to restrict the available alternatives seems like the beginning of the end to me and their app and site are only going to get worse.

That's why I'm here at least!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dat Lemmy puss feels so much tighter tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm only a 6 year clubber on Reddit, but using RIF for most of it, couldn't stand how the app was going. Nowadays it's the content as well. Going to be exploring around here now

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would actually be willing to pay a small, reasonable monthly fee to not have to see ads and to be able to continue using Boost for Reddit like I have been for the last 7 years with the experience unchanged. What I will not do is pay to use reddit's official app without ads simply because it's going to be the only choice with their horrible fee structure that will kill all third party apps. As soon as they kill Boost, my account there goes dark...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey look, a fellow boost refuge.

What I'd actually rather do is have all of reddit pay devs of a federated platform like this one or similar a small amount to have a platform without ads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use(d) and love boost! I mostly based the ui in jerboa after it, because it's so beautiful.

Shame it's always been closed source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great job man. You've made me forget I've switched sites.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit's official app and new reddit are awful experiences and actively hostile to the user. It's nice to see a site that understands this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate new reddit so much. I just opened it. On my 1440p monitor I see 3 posts. Old reddit I can see 18 posts on one page.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I never understood this argument. I can't read more than one post at a time anyways and images are not immediately visible in the list view. What makes you want 18 posts visible at once?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you can select the post you want to actually look at instead of having to scroll and scroll to find one that interests you. Like in a classical forum post, essentially.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That and I have tendonitis so less scrolling past crap I don't care about means I have less pain / no pain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

About a decade ago, Logitech had this awesome mouse with a freewheel spinning middle mouse button. It allowed for a long spin after release and was excellent for up and down scrolling on a large page. Sadly they don't seem to be made anymore. They were really fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I had one of those. They were pretty fun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@Gork @t0ny

MX mouse from Logitech has this unlocked scrolling feature.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a question. As most of you probably already know, i reached that level on reddit where karma can be converted 1:1 to dollars (not that hard tbh), but here looks like there's no karma to farm? How can I pay my rent?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This might be added in an future update? This place will change alot coming months for sure.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd rather crawl the 20 extra miles to a new community (and did) than use that app again. It's that bad. The reviews on Google Play are very telling. It's just a buggy mess.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

old.reddit.com on a mobile browser is still 100 times better than the "official" reddit app.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Despite it not being available through i.reddit.com, compact mode is still reachable at reddit.com/.i, and I find it even better than old reddit for mobile.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had no idea. I had never even seen this until today

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Always learning ;)
Hopefully reddit won't take it down

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tried it out, doesn't seem to actually be usable for anything other than reading the home page not logged in and links thereof. For example I can't https://reddit.com/.i/r/Cricket or similar

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The ideal is to append that /.i at the end of the URL. Like so: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/.i

Edit: which also works for login: https://www.reddit.com/login/.i

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

THANKS! Just in time for it not to matter anymore :-P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

hehe x)
Reddit still has a massive legacy worth exploring sometimes, so having a nice way to do it is definitely good. Libreddit and teddit exist as well (I believe they scrape)

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