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The official reddit app now has more 1 star reviews than 5 star (edit: on the Play store)
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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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Ok, so what's everyone's honest opinion about the app? I've used it once or twice before switching to rif and never used anything else. My wife has been using the official app and says it's "fine". I switched to lemmy after the API fiasco, so I really have no idea how it functions these days. Is it really that dogshit or are people like me just mad?
Put it like this. I was so mad about losing Sync that I downloaded the reddit app just to give it a 1 star review and then delete it.
When I downloaded the official reddit app, I found that I had already given it a 1 star review a year or two before this whole situation.
The official app is and has always been garbage.
Drinking water is fine, just like the Reddit app is fine. Wait until you try coffee, mango lassi, milk and all the other beverages available.
Actually no, the Reddit app is actively assaulting you with ads and BS notifications, so it’s more like dirty water and it certainly isn’t fine once you’ve tried clean water. However, I still really like mango lassi, but too bad Reddit chopped down all the mango trees.
I actually prefer water over any drink
Reddit’s official app is ocean water
I would say is more like waste water
Now with more bile!
The more I use Lemmy apps (favorite is Infinity), the more I realize what an awful experience the official Reddit app is. It's so sluggish in a subtle way, it makes me tired to scroll. Plus, there's tons of clutter, nothing is where it should be (e.g. r/all is at the very bottom of the left slider menu), and the app behaves in weird little ways (e.g. if you unmute a video, all your videos are now unmuted even if they're autoplaying in the feed).
Biggest offender is the ads. All over the feed and comments, created on purpose to blend in so you don't immediately realize you're being advertised to. But other than that, the official Reddit app is enshittification by a thousand little shitty design decisions.
The video player rarely works properly, ads are pretty egregious, it's hard to navigate with so much stuff bloating the UX, there are literal NFTs, and the app is generally much slower in general. And that's just the app itself.
I patched it using revanced manager to remove ads. But it's a buggy mess. The only good "feature" is inline image comments.
I guess your wife is also using Windows and a web browser without ad blocker. People get used to having ads and messages thrown in their face constantly.
But once you try Lemmy, you see how nice things can be.
It's funny how if you browse lemmy, you might be under the impression that Linux is some huge portion of the market share of OS's.
You know, rather than the reality which is less than 3% of users due to most people just wanting an OS that works without having to have a CS degree.
Since when do you need CS degree to use Linux? Oh that's right, you don't. You just have to actually give a shit about what you personally want, and not what big corporations want you to think.
Cool, you won't convince anyone like that.
There's no need to convince anyone. Anyone who wants to be there is there.
If you have to convince them to come in then you end up getting stuck with supporting them.
It's like the Reddit to Lemmy conversion. If people are going to consider the unknown and impassable barrier entry, they're probably better off where they were at.
I get it, but then the other dude is just being an asshole, belittling people that find hard the transition.
Either they suck at presenting a good argument about their platform or they are just an asshole that belittles other who find it hard to use their platform. I prefer to think the first one although I know that chances of the second are higher.
It's their loss.
Someone that misrepresents a topic with such confidence when they quite obviously have no idea what they are talking about doesn't really deserve a better response in my opinion. My tech illiterate wife uses Linux, and so does my 80+ year old grandma. It doesn't require a CS degree, anyone can use it.
Linux is great for very average users that do everything in the web browser and use a few basic applications. It is also great for advanced users that actually know how a computer operates. The problem comes from Windows power users that like to think of themselves as computer experts, but then realize that they are actually just Windows power users. Then they get butthurt and insecure and lash out at Linux when the problem is actually between the chair and keyboard.
Fine is a good description of it. I used to use it and it was fine, not excellent not horrible, just fine. Then after quite some time I looked into 3th party apps, mostly because I got tiered of how all ads became more and more disguised as normal posts.
I liked Infinity so I stuck with that for some time. Then I switched back to the official one as reading posts on the browser from mobil got worse and worse and I couldn't open the links in Infinity. The official app was ones again fine, a lot worse then Infinity but it was fine.
Then I figured out that you can make Infinity open reddit links and I switched back to Infinity again.
Then Reddit did what it did and now I use RedReader to read some communities that didn't move.
I think it’s a huge battery drain compared to all the alternatives, liftoff for example with Lemmy despite using it just as much as I did the official app in testing consumed less than half the battery life. Apollo also consumed about half of the official Reddit app while using Reddit so I dunno.
Also the constant promoted posts are just horrible to deal with.
For me the worse thing is that you are browsing your front page and they add posts from other subs, ads, etc, so at the end it feels you are browsing all. Maybe for some that is not a big deal, but for me it is.
por que no los dos?
It's much slower. And the small font makes it a pain to read long posts and comments.
Oh god does it not even have adjustable font??
It sucks to use for one reason. The comment chains are difficult to look at since they're not colored (I used Reddit's app months ago so it might have changed).
It was dogshit since release yes
I was fine with the official app until my main feed got filled with junk from places I didn't want follow or want to follow. Once I switched to a third party app I saw how cluttered the offical app looked and never wanted to switch back.
For some reason, it was using all the data I had when browsing