I’m desktop-only user and never had any experience with Reddit/Lemmy apps, and the sentiment towards them confuzes me.
I can imagine that the third-party apps for Reddit were better (?not bugged?) than the official one. But what made you to love them? Was the experience even better than desktop use?
Feel free to write about both Reddit and Lemmy apps in your responses.
I would say a good mobile client’s user experience is indeed better than desktop. Desktop websites are second class citizens in this day and age.
As a mainly desktop user I agree. Nearly everything is designed/built around portrait mode nowadays, and landscape is merely a secondary concern… if at all. Understandable considering a lot of traffic is from mobile, but it can make things feel a bit clunky and fit poorly on a wide screen.
Recall that 3rd party mobile apps came before the official Reddit Mobile app. For many people, especially Reddit’s oldest users, their 3rd party app was Reddit for them.
Exactly. On the very rare occasion I needed to hop on desktop, it felt like a totally different place. I didn’t use Reddit. I used RiF.
Reddit official mobile app, and New Reddit in general, is just awful for a certain kind of user. Everything is in huge bubbles, tons of wasted space, ads everywhere. I literally cannot bring myself to use it.
I was an RES desktop/RiF mobile user. I’ve decided that I can get most of what I liked out of Reddit out of Lemmy. The content volume is less than what I’m used to, but it’s enough to hold my attention through my lunch break at work.
The only thing I still use Reddit for is porn - none of the nsfw Lemmy instances I’ve found have really been what I’m looking for.
The Lemmy web on mobile is actually surprisingly good. I’m building a addon that’s emulating the slide out community (sub) picker from RIF and it’s pretty dang familiar.
Reddit app has ads to click between every few posts. Didn’t see them with the third party apps. Reddit has a premium you can pay to remove the ads but it was far more expensive and IMHO they want the money for themself.