I use Infinity since its open source
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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Goodbye, infinity. It was good while it lasted. 🫡
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.
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Define "currently"... I still have rif on my phone but I haven't used Reddit in a week
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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.
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I mean, kind of...
I use Sync and still have it installed, but now it just aggravates me when I open it. Not because of Sync, but because Reddit is just... bleh.
Maybe I'll uninstall it later, but I'm tired and lazy. Not like I have a longtime account to delete since I coincidentally did that over a month ago for other reasons.
Do need to delete the one a I made a few weeks ago for NSFW shit. I'm sure Reddit will really miss having that 3 karma account.
This will be an insanely biased poll
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.
Sync for reddit pro for years, now using a browser for kbin.social.
Sync all the way
Use Apollo and now only open/upvote posts and polls about the resistance.
I used too. Paid for Apollo until Christian started spamming ads for ultra and went back on his word that subscriptions were only to cover ongoing costs like servers for notifications.
So I went to ReddPlanet. Who’s also shutting down.
I haven’t been on Reddit in about a week though. I’m not too keen on the lemmy devs stances politically and will probably move to kbin when the documentation and setup gets fleshed out better.
Apollo was great while it lasted
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 been using boost for a little over a year. I have not be on since the blackout started.
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Boost for Reddit is awesome!
Even if by some miracle the 3rd party apps survive, too late.
Fuck Spez... I'm out. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
I've been using Relay for maybe 10 years? It's a bit of an underdog and doesn't get spoken about a lot, but over the years I've tried a bunch of Reddit apps and Relay is the one I liked the most.
It used to be called "Reddit News" until Reddit cracked down on apps using "Reddit" in their name. Their rules changed to only allow "for Reddit" at the end of the name, so Reddit News became "Relay for Reddit", rif (Reddit is Fun) became "rif is fun for Reddit", etc.
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infinity
I use(d) Infinity
Before all this kerfluffle with the API, I have used Reddit is Fun for mobile for several years. I will be really bummed to see it go.
Relay. The official app can go fuck itself.
RiF since I found Reddit so many years ago. I've tried others but they never stuck.
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When I was using Reddit, I used RIF.
Rif. Working on understanding this ui
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.
RiF for several years!
There's no way this poll is accurate. Just looking at the Play Store the official app has 100M+ downloads. The bext closest, rif, has 5M+. I think people underestimate how many casual users go straight to the official app and don't care about any of this is.
I mean, I also thought there is probably not that many people... BUT your comment made me actually think otherwise. RIF's 5% is actually huge!! And that is just one app; we don't even know how many are using FOSS apps through F-droid... so I'd say the third-party app ecosystem is probably very, very big, I'd say easily at least 30 % of mobile users are third-parties.
How many millions of users actually installed the official app and went "oh, god, nope", or found out about better apps later on... I'd say that is also pretty big. And not happening the other way around.
So, pure speculation here, but this is probably Reddit's desperate move to change a very possibly growing tendency of third-party app users.
Keep in mind that rif has been around since 2010, and the official app launched in 2016. I think the opposite is true, anecdotally I've noticed discussion of 3PA has gone down in the past 5 years. People used to talk about it all the time, I didn't hear much until this controversy. Most redditors are not power-users, I don't think many of them would know what F-Droid is let alone use it. I'd personally guess that 3PA usage is under 10%.
I think this change was mainly sparked by cracking down on AI scraping bots, and killing 3PA was a two-birds-one-stone side effect to prepare for their IPO.
I've used both RiF and Sync, and between the two of them I'd probably say Sync was my favorite. I hope both of the devs land on their feet, they produced amazing apps.
Currently? No, because I quit reddit.
But when I was on reddit, I used Relay For Reddit Pro.
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During my 13.5 years of Reddit, I've used at least these, in possibly this order
- Alien Blue (RIP)
- Bacon Reader
- Reddit is Fun
- Reddit Sync
- Joey, for the last ~6 years
Don't browse Reddit anymore, apps or browser. If I do end up visiting via Google, I use old.reddit.com.
I was using rif for years, I don't see myself ever downloading the reddit app partly because it sucks but now I have a bad taste in my mouth after all this. If they had of just improved their own app and left the third party ones alone I probably would have used it.
I used Infinity until I deleted my Reddit account in connection with the protests. Now I don't use Reddit at all.
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I used RIF for over a decade, it did everything I wanted so I never sought out an alternative.
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Reddit is Fun for around 10 years, Bacon Reader for around 2 years before that. I have quit Reddit since last week and don't intend to ever go again outside of the random Google search result.
I started with RIf for ten first few years and then switched over to Sync. I loved the customization that Sync provides
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