How many of you use a 3rd-party app to browse Reddit?
I use Infinity since its open source
Also available on fdroid (until July 1st, of course)
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Well… Not anymore I don’t
Yeah, seems like this poll is missing an important “I did before leaving Reddit” option.
Same. Used both RIF and Apollo through the years. Haven’t used anything for a week now.
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.
Honestly I just picked up reading books and it’s so nice
I’m reading a lot more too.
RiF for 10 years.
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.
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.
That poll isn’t going to get good results because a lot of 3PA users have already left reddit
Currently it says 76% of votes use a 3rd party app.
Polls are biased toward people with strong opinions.
Ok, should we go with your personal opinion then? What percentage of that 76% of votes would you say is accurate? It doesn’t matter anyway because the only ones who know for sure are reddit insiders and they won’t release that info, they only break it down by app and website not 3rd party vs official.
Bias isn’t a personal opinion. It is more likely that a person sees this poll coming from lemmy than from reddit, and people coming from lemmy are more likely to have left reddit due to using a 3rd party app that will shut down. On the same note, someone who is on reddit still is less likely to have seen this poll, and if they’re still on reddit, are more likely to not be using a third party app and thus less likely to care.
This is heavily skewed towards more technical users who are more likely to care and use a 3rd party app
Your response reminds me of the people on reddit during early covid. People commonly were using metrics for mortality like # of deaths/# recovered or # dead / total cases and then refused to think otherwise, perferring a invalid metric because the numbers early on fit what they expected rather than realize they may be wrong.
I’d think it would actually skew in the opposite direction of what that user thinks. I’ve used RIF for 9 years, but now I don’t use reddit, so my honest answer would be one of the “no” options.
Define “currently”… I still have rif on my phone but I haven’t used Reddit in a week
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.
I use Infinity and have found it to be absolutely excellent. I wish I could continue to use it rather than leave altogether.
I am also a long time infinity user, Jerboa feels fairly similar to me.
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.
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.
Haha, you’re right. I was trying to long press the comment to collapse it. I didn’t think of short tapping it!
Turns out there’s already an open issue on the prev/next buttons: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/542
I used apollo, but I’ve not been on it since the protests started. Not going back to Reddit either now
Use Apollo and now only open/upvote posts and polls about the resistance.
When I was using Reddit, I used RIF.
Boost is still my favorite. I’m done after the third party apps are gone. Going to block Reddit in my router to stop me on desktop haha.
This will be an insanely biased poll
Currently? No, because I quit reddit.
But when I was on reddit, I used Relay For Reddit Pro.
I thought the same thing
Sync IS Reddit to me since I haven’t used my desktop for primary browsing of the site in years. It’s a shame Reddit is disappearing shortly.
Yeah, after I started using Sync and they did the redesign, desktop browsing felt so slow. Even old.reddit felt clunky compared to Sync.
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.
I have used Boost on Android for years.
I had restarted using apps because the mobile webpage had become toxic with pushing me to the official app that I knew from reputation was toxic for UI. It kept forgetting where I was and reloading the whole page, uncompacting the threads I’d finished reading.
Reddit quite deliberately drove me off the mobile web interface, I just didn’t go where they wanted, just to boost and bacon reader. I’ll see if they still work tomorrow, but I’m enjoying using lemmy more, because it seems to be where all the sane people who like good conversation went.
The new update is gorgeous. Shame.
It’s unfortunate timing. I’m going to give it an overdue glowing review. And hint that a lemmy conversion would be well received.
Same here, Boost has been my ride or die app for ages now. :(
