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The only downside for me is the ad trackers. If those get disabled when we pay for no ads, then it would be perfect

Not saying that doesn’t happen, I just don’t know…

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Something I wish back on Boost for Reddit was a separate free app and a paid separate app without ads and trackers, but it’s something Google apparently doesn’t allow anymore. Reddit is fun was able to have reddit is fun gold because they had the separate app before the rules went into affect.

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Damn, that’s sad, I love when they make the separate since usually I can put the paid app on my family library.

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This is an interesting question. Maybe Ruben can answer? Or Google it and see what other apps have to say.

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Apparently the ad tracking is disabled when you launch the rocket. Also, I deleted the other apps pretty much right away 🤣

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16 points

Even the beta version is more usable and way faster than other released apps. Incredible!

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Yup, paid for the add removal from the get. Love Boost.

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13 points

It doesnt appear to be released for Android yet. Why you gotta get my hopes up…

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you have to click the link the dev sent on the pinned post in order to be able to access it

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Thanks, I had only checked the store. Didnt realize it was an early access thing

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I hate to say it, but I’m on Android and using Boost right now… Have you checked the community, there is some good info on how to get access to the Beta

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Link please; I am tired.

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I’ve been using the Photon front-end on both desktop, and mobile, pretty much since it became available on this instance, after trying a dozen different mobile apps, that weren’t an obvious 3-day hack, just to fill the niche. Boost is superior than all of them, combined, without any exaggeration

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photon is an obvious 3-day hack? ☹️

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My guy, why would I say that I use photon if I didn’t like it lol.

I’ve taken a minute to look up who you are. Thanks for the hard work c: I suppose i didn’t get the point across in the main post, but Photon had been my frontend of choice

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My post was sarcastic, don’t worry

Boost is quite a good client.

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Photon is amazing

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It’s been so long that I’m fused to Liftoff. I don’t want to readapt to something new now 😩

Maybe if I knew more about what features it has that Liftoff doesn’t I could be coaxed into it.

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There are countless of QOL features. You can customise all the app’s colours, there’s a bunch of different view types for posts and you can set default views per community, you can favourite communities, select and copy on a comment, search through comments, highlight comments of the same user, … and much more! Most importantly there are a ton of settings you can toggle. If you can see it you can likely tweak it or hide it. It takes a while to change everything to your liking, but I think it’s worth it.

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Not sure what features it has that Liftoff doesn’t (though it packs a bunch). But for me the selling point is the pretty and efficient user interface. All the gestures and buttons feel natural and intuitive, media rendering is smooth etc.

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