I only ever used the official app never the website or any 3rd party apps so what were they like and why do people miss them so much.
I used Reddit Is Fun for over a decade. It made Reddit usable on mobile for me. The UI for the mobile site and the official app make poor use of screen real-estate, IMO, and are designed to force you to continue scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. They’re attention vampires.
RIF and other third-party apps had much cleaner UIs, that made it easier to find the content I was actually interested in, hide content that I didn’t care to see, and interact with comments in a way that made sense for me. It was also easier to customize my notifications so that I would only be alerted by things I cared to be distracted by.
Without the third-party apps, I’ve reduced my Reddit usage tremendously. I used to spend probably a few hours a day just reading through Reddit, but now that I can’t do that from my phone in a way that works for my use-case, I just simply don’t use Reddit as much anymore. I only ever access it from my laptop now, and I only ever use my laptop while I’m on the toilet.
My Reddit use has been reduced to literal shitposting. Fuck Spez.
I’d love to eventually find some user data after July 1st because I’ve been similar. Spending a few hours reading each day via different subreddits now suddenly to zero.
Losing a big chunk of nearly million users just from Apollo let alone the other apps must show up somewhere in the data.
As one of the most active moderators across multiple subreddits for the past couple of years, I could only Moderate on my iPad because of Apps like Apollo.
Apollo worked, and it worked well. Where as Reddit’s Official App is broken more than it works and until very recently didn’t even have many of the core moderation features you would want.
A laptop on the throne? That’s a new one. I’m usually escaping with just my phone and pretend flushing. Hehehe
