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How many of you use a 3rd-party app to browse Reddit?

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

Always used RIF, the stock Reddit app has always been unusably terrible.

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

Used Reddit is Fun. Obviously not anymore.

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

I use Redder on iPad for the last several years. It apparently hasn’t been updated in 2 years, and I have no idea if there is a userbase of any size.

Just bought the Mac version of Redder about two months ago….

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

Apollo (and Alien Blue before that back in the day).

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

I did, Apollo, before leaving Reddit for good. It was the reason why I used Reddit in the first place.

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

I was using Sync for years and years. This month, I deleted all my Reddit accounts. That was a well polished app and I'll definitely miss it, but I'm not really missing Reddit itself.

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

On Android I used boost and reddit is fun. On iOS I used Apollo. Haven't been browsing reddit since then but did move to setting up an rss for two subreddits to use with feedly.

The two rss I set up being

http://teddit.net/r/buildapcsales/?api&type=rss http://teddit.net/r/gamedeals/?api&type=rss

Tried to at least lessen any benefit I might have to them by using a reddit front end to get feeds.

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

Apollo user here.

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

Boost user here, sad to see it go :(

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

I use teddit, a privacy frontend for reddit. Doesn't support logging in, but I haven't had a reddit account for a few years now.

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

I used bacon reader for a couple years before switching to relay and staying there for like 10 years or something like that. Tried others here and there but always quickly went back to relay for one reason or another. I'll be sad to see it go

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

I used a variety of 3rd party reddit apps (reddit is fun, slide, and infinity), but deleted my account after the API mess. I've been using Jerboa with Lemmy the last week or two

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

Former Apollo user here.

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

I used Apollo for over 5 years. Before that, I had an Android, so I used Baconreader and later Relay. Before THAT, I used Alien Blue.

Ever since the blackout, I have only visited Reddit once. Definitely making Lemmy my primary forum nowadays.

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

Never was a heavy user. I was using infinity, uninstalled before api change was announced actually.

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

I used Apollo until roughly a week ago or so when I started to detach from Reddit. Now it‘s since been uninstalled.

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

Apollo still works. I will use it until it does not. And then - cold turkey.

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

Apollo for years. I check in on Reddit occasionally and will until month end.

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

Reddit didn't have a third party app (just the compact and mobile interface) when I used it, so I picked up an app and never left.

I mostly use Alien Blue and Apollo, both of which are almost certainly on the chopping block. I tried the official Reddit app for a little bit, but my iPad Mini 2 is too old and slow for it, so it tends to crash almost instantly, or run rather poorly.

On my phone, I started with relay, but moved to Redreader and Infinity, since they were open source, and have better performance compared to Relay. I still keep relay around for the message notifications, since they're better than the other two apps.

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

Well I did use sync, now using jerboa of course. Would be neat if sync or other apps could be remade for the fedverse. An app that could bridge different fedverse apps more easily like lemmy and mastadon for instance but keep everything easily readable and sortable would be cool.

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

Not sure if the responses to the poll are skewed, but the vote suggests vastly different numbers than Reddit would lead you to believe

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