How many of you use a 3rd-party app to browse Reddit?
I use Infinity since its open source
Also available on fdroid (until July 1st, of course)
Goodbye, infinity. It was good while it lasted. 🫡
Well… Not anymore I don’t
Yeah, seems like this poll is missing an important “I did before leaving Reddit” option.
Same. Used both RIF and Apollo through the years. Haven’t used anything for a week now.
I had grown quite fond of the app Infinity over the past years. I uninstalled it last Sunday. I’ve also deleted all my Reddit content yesterday. Honestly I had thought it would be more painful to see all that go down the drain. But after a week away from Reddit I didn’t even care about any of it anymore.
Honestly I just picked up reading books and it’s so nice
I’m reading a lot more too.
RiF for 10 years.
Same, until they announced it’d be shutting off at the end of the month. Damn shame, but oh well, it beats sticking around waiting for the end.
I’ve always used RiF - it duplicates the desktop layout better than the others, along with so many other features. Wish its developer was moving on to a Lemmy app, but he’s cranking out one for Tildes instead.
I still use it to lurk - the shitstorm over there is quite amusing, read the latest announcement at r/videos. Yes, nothing but John Oliver videos - but the screed this is delivered with is a thing of beauty.
Define “currently”… I still have rif on my phone but I haven’t used Reddit in a week
Yeah, “currently” is the wrong adverb to use. Relay and Boost were common apps I used and pretty much the only means I used to access Reddit. I only touched the desktop web app when I got a web search link.
I use Infinity and have found it to be absolutely excellent. I wish I could continue to use it rather than leave altogether.
I am also a long time infinity user, Jerboa feels fairly similar to me.
Using that too now. Could do with collapsing threads and skipping to next / previous top level comment and I’d be a little happier. But otherwise quite pleased.
What do you mean by collapsing threads? Currently if you clicked on a comment, it should collapse said comment and any children of the comment.
With regards to navigating to the next/previous top level comment, worth putting that as an “issue” on Jerboa’s GitHub as a feature request if one doesn’t exist for this feature already.
Haha, you’re right. I was trying to long press the comment to collapse it. I didn’t think of short tapping it!
Turns out there’s already an open issue on the prev/next buttons: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/542
I mean, kind of…
I use Sync and still have it installed, but now it just aggravates me when I open it. Not because of Sync, but because Reddit is just… bleh.
Maybe I’ll uninstall it later, but I’m tired and lazy. Not like I have a longtime account to delete since I coincidentally did that over a month ago for other reasons.
Do need to delete the one a I made a few weeks ago for NSFW shit. I’m sure Reddit will really miss having that 3 karma account.
Sync IS Reddit to me since I haven’t used my desktop for primary browsing of the site in years. It’s a shame Reddit is disappearing shortly.
Yeah, after I started using Sync and they did the redesign, desktop browsing felt so slow. Even old.reddit felt clunky compared to Sync.
Boost is still my favorite. I’m done after the third party apps are gone. Going to block Reddit in my router to stop me on desktop haha.
This will be an insanely biased poll
I use(d) Infinity
Currently? No, because I quit reddit.
But when I was on reddit, I used Relay For Reddit Pro.
I had the same thought
I’ve used RIF for nearly 10 years. I can’t stand the current state of the official app. It spends far too much time harassing you with useless notifications/info/recommendations for my taste and it’s a laggy mess.
Use Apollo and now only open/upvote posts and polls about the resistance.
I have used Boost on Android for years.
The new update is gorgeous. Shame.
It’s unfortunate timing. I’m going to give it an overdue glowing review. And hint that a lemmy conversion would be well received.
I had restarted using apps because the mobile webpage had become toxic with pushing me to the official app that I knew from reputation was toxic for UI. It kept forgetting where I was and reloading the whole page, uncompacting the threads I’d finished reading.
Reddit quite deliberately drove me off the mobile web interface, I just didn’t go where they wanted, just to boost and bacon reader. I’ll see if they still work tomorrow, but I’m enjoying using lemmy more, because it seems to be where all the sane people who like good conversation went.
Same here, Boost has been my ride or die app for ages now. :(
I’ve been using Relay for maybe 10 years? It’s a bit of an underdog and doesn’t get spoken about a lot, but over the years I’ve tried a bunch of Reddit apps and Relay is the one I liked the most.
It used to be called “Reddit News” until Reddit cracked down on apps using “Reddit” in their name. Their rules changed to only allow “for Reddit” at the end of the name, so Reddit News became “Relay for Reddit”, rif (Reddit is Fun) became “rif is fun for Reddit”, etc.
I’m the same. Relay is so slick and I’m gutted about what is happening. Even if the dev manages to keep Relay going, I don’t want to support a company like Reddit who seem happy to shit all over their userbase in pursuit of profit.
That’s the exact same boat I’m in right now. I’ve been a big fan of Relay for years and I think it’s great that the developer will probably be able to keep the app going with a small monthly fee. I would even be willing to pay a small monthly fee, but I don’t want to support Reddit anymore. I haven’t pulled it up since the protest started.
It used to be Relay for me as well. Other apps had neat features I wish Relay had gotten as well, but I couldn’t get away from its neat UI and UX even though I tried pretty much every third-party reddit app there was.
I’m certainly sad to leave a handful of my favorite communities behind but Reddit overall can burn down for all I care. Even before the API BS and Huffmann lying through his teeth the Reddit experience had gotten more and more annoying aside from the coziest of subreddits.
Time to move on and perhaps some of the app devs try their hand at a sleek threadiverse app with all of the QoL goodies.
