Most of them will get removed due to ““hate spam”” anyways
By definition, iPhone owners don’t mind paying ridiculous prices for things they can get for free.
If you are on an iOS device, be sure to rate the lower starred reviews as “helpful”.
- find the app in the App Store
- tap show all reviews
- sort by most critical, or most recent
- long press on a review to select helpful/not helpful
On Play Store there’s a Yes or No “Was this review helpful?” question below each review.
Despite the API protests, the Official Reddit app sucks anyways. It uses a ton more data and battery than third party apps, so I’d never use it again. The app also has a bunch of tracking built in.
Ok, so what’s everyone’s honest opinion about the app? I’ve used it once or twice before switching to rif and never used anything else. My wife has been using the official app and says it’s “fine”. I switched to lemmy after the API fiasco, so I really have no idea how it functions these days. Is it really that dogshit or are people like me just mad?
Put it like this. I was so mad about losing Sync that I downloaded the reddit app just to give it a 1 star review and then delete it.
When I downloaded the official reddit app, I found that I had already given it a 1 star review a year or two before this whole situation.
The official app is and has always been garbage.
Drinking water is fine, just like the Reddit app is fine. Wait until you try coffee, mango lassi, milk and all the other beverages available.
Actually no, the Reddit app is actively assaulting you with ads and BS notifications, so it’s more like dirty water and it certainly isn’t fine once you’ve tried clean water. However, I still really like mango lassi, but too bad Reddit chopped down all the mango trees.
The more I use Lemmy apps (favorite is Infinity), the more I realize what an awful experience the official Reddit app is. It’s so sluggish in a subtle way, it makes me tired to scroll. Plus, there’s tons of clutter, nothing is where it should be (e.g. r/all is at the very bottom of the left slider menu), and the app behaves in weird little ways (e.g. if you unmute a video, all your videos are now unmuted even if they’re autoplaying in the feed).
Biggest offender is the ads. All over the feed and comments, created on purpose to blend in so you don’t immediately realize you’re being advertised to. But other than that, the official Reddit app is enshittification by a thousand little shitty design decisions.
I guess your wife is also using Windows and a web browser without ad blocker. People get used to having ads and messages thrown in their face constantly.
But once you try Lemmy, you see how nice things can be.
It’s funny how if you browse lemmy, you might be under the impression that Linux is some huge portion of the market share of OS’s.
You know, rather than the reality which is less than 3% of users due to most people just wanting an OS that works without having to have a CS degree.
Since when do you need CS degree to use Linux? Oh that’s right, you don’t. You just have to actually give a shit about what you personally want, and not what big corporations want you to think.
Fine is a good description of it. I used to use it and it was fine, not excellent not horrible, just fine. Then after quite some time I looked into 3th party apps, mostly because I got tiered of how all ads became more and more disguised as normal posts.
I liked Infinity so I stuck with that for some time. Then I switched back to the official one as reading posts on the browser from mobil got worse and worse and I couldn’t open the links in Infinity. The official app was ones again fine, a lot worse then Infinity but it was fine.
Then I figured out that you can make Infinity open reddit links and I switched back to Infinity again.
Then Reddit did what it did and now I use RedReader to read some communities that didn’t move.
I think it’s a huge battery drain compared to all the alternatives, liftoff for example with Lemmy despite using it just as much as I did the official app in testing consumed less than half the battery life. Apollo also consumed about half of the official Reddit app while using Reddit so I dunno.
Also the constant promoted posts are just horrible to deal with.
It’s much slower. And the small font makes it a pain to read long posts and comments.
It sucks to use for one reason. The comment chains are difficult to look at since they’re not colored (I used Reddit’s app months ago so it might have changed).
