How many of you use a 3rd-party app to browse Reddit?
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 use Infinity since its open source
Also available on fdroid (until July 1st, of course)
Goodbye, infinity. It was good while it lasted. 🫡
RiF since I found Reddit so many years ago. I’ve tried others but they never stuck.
I desperately want a RiF clone for interacting with Lemmy. If RiF does actually shut down at the end of the month, I really hope talklittle open-sources it.
I’ve been a RiF diehard for about a decade, but I’ll definitely give Sync for Lemmy a try when it’s available.
What I’m really interested in is this. If this gets completed, theoretically any existing third-party reddit app could update the API URL it hits and their app would pretty much “just work” with Lemmy, they’d just need to add an option for the user to input their home instance’s URL and their credentials. It was started by @derivator
@tool @derivator that could be awesome, any way to bring over the apps that made reddit great
Still working on this, help is welcome :)
Unfortunately I don’t know shit about Rust. I use Python/PowerShell/Bash/some C#/etc daily for my job, but I haven’t touched Rust at all.
What would you say the learning curve would be based on the languages I’ve worked in?
The one thing that takes a bit to get used to is the borrow checker. Advice there is don’t fight it. Trust the compiler to tell you your code is wrong. Once you understand the ownership/borrowing rules, it’s honestly just a joy to code in. Static typing protects you from the inevitable mess that every large python project becomes, and the borrow checker gives you the comfort and safety you’ve come to expect from memory safe languages without the overhead of a garbage collector.
Ok. I’ll give it a try some time this weekend, thanks for the tip. Hopefully I can contribute in the future.
This will be an insanely biased poll
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.
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.
Use Apollo and now only open/upvote posts and polls about the resistance.
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.
Sync for reddit pro for years, now using a browser for kbin.social.
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.
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.
Boost for Reddit is awesome!
Even if by some miracle the 3rd party apps survive, too late.
Fuck Spez… I’m out. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
When I was using Reddit, I used RIF.
I used Baconreader, Relay, and in 2014 got Sync pro and have used that ever since.
I stopped using reddit for the blackout and have been trying Jerboa and /kbin since then.
Love me some baconreader. The official app is just not pleasant to use.
I was a baconreader person too but I deleted it and moved 100% to beehaw when things started getting weird at that other place
Sync all the way
