Reddit’s official app and new reddit are awful experiences and actively hostile to the user. It’s nice to see a site that understands this.
I hate new reddit so much. I just opened it. On my 1440p monitor I see 3 posts. Old reddit I can see 18 posts on one page.
But there’s more space for the beautiful ads
There are different layouts available on new reddit, you don’t have to use Card, switch to another one, there is even a compact one.
I never understood this argument. I can’t read more than one post at a time anyways and images are not immediately visible in the list view. What makes you want 18 posts visible at once?
So you can select the post you want to actually look at instead of having to scroll and scroll to find one that interests you. Like in a classical forum post, essentially.
Agreed. It makes the posts you don’t want to see much easier to ignore. Even my favorite subreddits have posts I don’t care about, like r/fantasy posts praising Mistnorn for the billionth time.
I don’t want giant images in my face right away, either, without warning of what they contain, especially if browsing unfamiliar or large subreddits.
That and I have tendonitis so less scrolling past crap I don’t care about means I have less pain / no pain.
About a decade ago, Logitech had this awesome mouse with a freewheel spinning middle mouse button. It allowed for a long spin after release and was excellent for up and down scrolling on a large page. Sadly they don’t seem to be made anymore. They were really fun.
I had one of those. They were pretty fun.
I hate the official app with the fire of 1,000 suns. So if my only options are using the official app or leaving the site completely I’m leaving completely✌️
Reddit is too popular now. They’re going to have an IPO eventually and then it will really go down hill.
Might as well get on the ground floor of something new.
Yeah pretty much. I just stand can’t advertising.
Advertising is literally big corporations trying to change the shape of your brain. I dislike that very much. I hope lemmy works out for me, I can’t use reddit if I have to slog through their ads. Plus, I probably already see a ton of bots that I don’t even realize are ads.
you soon of a removed, I’m in
You son of a removed, I’m in too.
[removed]
hopefully 21 miles of cromulent posting
it would be amazing if a site could replicate that early day reddit feeling
This is coming close, I gotta admit.
As someone who joined reddit around 2015 its pretty cool seeing a site this empty for some reason. Feels like early internet in a very cool way
The current internet is shit now. There’s too much noise and not enough depth. I like the vibe here so far. This is my first post hello world etc.
I joined earlier today as well, welcome:)
I agree there is so much noise on Reddit, and just mobs of downvotes and harassment. The slower pace here is breath of fresh air, even with an exodus of people coming, it will be a long time (or never) when it gets as bad as reddit is today.
Same feeling 😄
Same
Yup. I’m here out of spite 😆
@Rhabuko @amortized_cost
Same. The API business was the push i needed to join the Fediverse. Screw em.
Part of the Digg exodus and on Reddit for ~14 years, Old.Reddit + Reddit Enhancement Suite for PC and Reddit is Fun on Android are the only reason I lasted so long.
Exactly the same! Except I never really liked and used Digg. Other than that: RIF on my phone and old Reddit plus RES for way over a decade. Cheers!
When RIF stops working that will be the end of Reddit on my mobile. I’ll never use that pile of hot garbage they call a client. I can’t say for sure I’ll never use it on the desktop again, at least as long as old reddit keeps working. If they kill old reddit though, yeah I’ll never go back.
And before you know it there will be quite a bit more than just jerboa on mobile
I’m only a 6 year clubber on Reddit, but using RIF for most of it, couldn’t stand how the app was going. Nowadays it’s the content as well. Going to be exploring around here now
8 years of Reddit. My only regret was ever making quality content over there.
Exactly why I’m here, except I was on Reddit longer. But rif is what made it barrable
Because Lemmy is open source once the mass migration happened expect a bunch of new mobile apps for it instead of just jerboa
Fuck the reddit app it sucks cock.
wait, maybe I should give it a shot…
I would actually be willing to pay a small, reasonable monthly fee to not have to see ads and to be able to continue using Boost for Reddit like I have been for the last 7 years with the experience unchanged. What I will not do is pay to use reddit’s official app without ads simply because it’s going to be the only choice with their horrible fee structure that will kill all third party apps. As soon as they kill Boost, my account there goes dark…
The Apollo dev comment on this. They have a subscription model already, but would need to more than double the cost just to meet the cost of the API.
They worked it out as $2.50 per month for the average user. But I’d be willing to bet that you’d have less users using it more if it cost that much, so it would need to be higher. And then you add taxes. And even then it’s all going to reddit, the dev gets nothing.
This is based on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/
Yeah, I definitely saw that. The only thing that makes sense to me is that they’re expecting third party app devs to basically be charging what they do for Reddit premium, which is honestly pretty ridiculous. Most people aren’t going to want to suddenly have to pay anywhere near $6/month for what they had been getting for free. Reddit also screwed up by not having a way that their existing Reddit Premium users might continue having API access in third party apps with a personal token instead of making all third party app devs be brokers in the exchange. They’re making the system needlessly complicated IMHO.
They could have drastically simplified the whole issue by decreeing that only premium Reddit accounts may use a third-party app. They get their money and people only mildly groan instead of getting outraged and abandoning ship.
Hey look, a fellow boost refuge.
What I’d actually rather do is have all of reddit pay devs of a federated platform like this one or similar a small amount to have a platform without ads.
I use(d) and love boost! I mostly based the ui in jerboa after it, because it’s so beautiful.
Shame it’s always been closed source.
Just deleted reddit and moved here. Jerboa is clean as fuck. Minor improvements here/there but the fact that its open source cancels that all out. Hell I might even contribute myself
Thanks! I could def use more dev help on it, as I’m spread very thin.
Its had other contributers, but none of them have stuck around.
No wonder I felt right at home as soon as I changed the feed layout to small cards (to better match my Boost preference). You’ve done a fantastic job reproducing the feeling of Boost!
Thanks!
Great job man. You’ve made me forget I’ve switched sites.
Thanks! <3
As a fellow boost user, it’s sad to see us here! If Reddit really is going that way, hope the boost fev makes a Lemmy app…
I did base jerboa’s UI off of boost, because it’s my fav reddit app also.
Enjoying jerboa so far, a couple bugs but despite being so new it’s even more stable than Reddit’s official app. Thanks for your hard work.
No problem.
Reddit’s official app, and in fact Reddit’s official website is a hugely compromised experience, and I suspect the only reason they haven’t gone further is that they don’t want to push people to the alternatives. However this latest move to restrict the available alternatives seems like the beginning of the end to me and their app and site are only going to get worse.
That’s why I’m here at least!
I’d rather crawl the 20 extra miles to a new community (and did) than use that app again. It’s that bad. The reviews on Google Play are very telling. It’s just a buggy mess.
old.reddit.com on a mobile browser is still 100 times better than the “official” reddit app.
Despite it not being available through i.reddit.com, compact mode is still reachable at reddit.com/.i, and I find it even better than old reddit for mobile.
I had no idea. I had never even seen this until today
Always learning ;)
Hopefully reddit won’t take it downtried it out, doesn’t seem to actually be usable for anything other than reading the home page not logged in and links thereof. For example I can’t https://reddit.com/.i/r/Cricket or similar
The ideal is to append that
/.iat the end of the URL. Like so: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/.iEdit: which also works for login: https://www.reddit.com/login/.i
THANKS! Just in time for it not to matter anymore :-P
I gave it a good, genuine try after they killed Alien Blue, because surely they bought that app to do something useful with it, right? Nope. Absolute garbage, and I begrudgingly made the switch to Apollo. Reddit is my last non-Fediverse based social media site and the only thing keeping me on it was the content and excellent app interface - the minute Apollo stops working, Reddit is dead to me. I’d rather post into the abyss than use the official app or website.
Joined lemmy after getting sick of reddit. The community here feels like a breath of fresh air. But disappointed at the lack of the more niche content (mostly motorsport discussion/news) but am sure that’ll change with time.
disappointed at the lack of more niche content
As of now it’s down to the lack of participating users in niche subs.
So, glad to have you here! With enough people starting to create discussions on stuff they enjoy this place will get livelier than ever.
Even Reddit had to start somewhere when the ability to comment was added to the site in 2005, you know.
I was half wondering if it was possible/allowed to create a bot account that “mirrors” content from certain subreddits such as r/formula1 to create an automated newsfeed for lemmy users to browse and comment on? I guess even if it were possible it’d rely on using reddit’s API which is obviously soon to be a no-go
On Mastodon everyone frowned upon the Twitter mirrors, I suspect it would be the same here.
There’s a F1 space on Matrix you could join. They’re pretty active
Cool, do you have a link? Tried searching for it but couldn’t find it
#formula1:matrix.org
The API changes was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. I was on reddit right before the exodus from Digg, before that I used to go to Fark. So much has changed, it is sad to see it, but I guess it was inevitable. As companies grow their user base, they tend to start catering to a more generic (and bland) base and the higher ups demand never ending increase of revenue, quarter after quarter.
So many memories; great ones (Today you, tomorrow me), awful ones (Jolly Rancher), some weird ones (Waffles? Don’t You Mean Carrots?), etc. I only use old.reddit with RES on Librewolf on my PC, and Redreader and Stealth on Android (FOSS apps).
I am hoping to see Lemmy grow, I wish you all reddit refugees the best of luck!
