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

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      Yeah, seems like this poll is missing an important “I did before leaving Reddit” option.

      • MadMaurice
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        31 year ago

        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        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.

  • @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    Define “currently”… I still have rif on my phone but I haven’t used Reddit in a week

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    131 year ago

    I use Infinity and have found it to be absolutely excellent. I wish I could continue to use it rather than leave altogether.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        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.

        • ds12
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          21 year ago

          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.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    I’ve been using boost for a little over a year. I have not be on since the blackout started.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      The Boost developer has been unusually quiet on this entire scenario. It’s possible he might not be shut down?

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        I got an app update just yesterday that cleaned up visuals a bit. Either they are sticking it out, or wanted to push some stuff out of the pipeline to finish on a high.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          Caught me by surprised a bit. Been with Boost ever since release and will be sad if it goes.

  • comicallycluttered
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    101 year ago

    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.

    • tool
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      31 year ago

      I desperately want a RiF clone for interacting with Lemmy. If RiF does actually shut down at the end of the month, I really hope talklittle open-sources it.

        • tool
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          1 year ago

          I’ve been a RiF diehard for about a decade, but I’ll definitely give Sync for Lemmy a try when it’s available.

          What I’m really interested in is this. If this gets completed, theoretically any existing third-party reddit app could update the API URL it hits and their app would pretty much “just work” with Lemmy, they’d just need to add an option for the user to input their home instance’s URL and their credentials. It was started by @derivator

            • tool
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              01 year ago

              Unfortunately I don’t know shit about Rust. I use Python/PowerShell/Bash/some C#/etc daily for my job, but I haven’t touched Rust at all.

              What would you say the learning curve would be based on the languages I’ve worked in?

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                The one thing that takes a bit to get used to is the borrow checker. Advice there is don’t fight it. Trust the compiler to tell you your code is wrong. Once you understand the ownership/borrowing rules, it’s honestly just a joy to code in. Static typing protects you from the inevitable mess that every large python project becomes, and the borrow checker gives you the comfort and safety you’ve come to expect from memory safe languages without the overhead of a garbage collector.

                • tool
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                  21 year ago

                  Ok. I’ll give it a try some time this weekend, thanks for the tip. Hopefully I can contribute in the future.

  • capnminus
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    91 year ago

    Sync for reddit pro for years, now using a browser for kbin.social.

  • bliss
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    91 year ago

    Use Apollo and now only open/upvote posts and polls about the resistance.