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The official app is hot garbage (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Thalyssa@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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On a whim I decided to give the official app a try because a lot of people will be forced to use it, if they decide to stay on Reddit.

Holy hell, it's just slow. Can't scroll through a subreddit without annoying hitches and stutters. Comments aren't any better also.

On the other hand, Sync is just fucking gorgeous and runs immensely better than the encumbered official app.

How can apps made by small teams or even a single person be better optimized than one supposedly made by a larger team with a larger development budget?

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[–] May@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Don't download it just to try! It has trackers be careful. Is better not to ever download it really.

[–] TheEntity@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The people that stay never knew they could have something better. It's like people that don't mind the ads, on Reddit or otherwise. If they never got exposed to the pre-ads Internet or to a good ad blocker, they don't even know they could complain about this experience.

[–] genoxidedev1@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

It's crazy to me that people still don't know of adblockers in 2023 but there's an absolute shit-ton of those people.

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I tried it over a year after its initial release, thinking they’d have time to sort out the biggest problems. I thought other redditors were possibly exaggerating, or recalling their experiences with an earlier version. It couldn’t be that bad, right?

Yeah, it could. Wow. They’re trying to encourage people to use an app that’s utter shit. It’s an… interesting strategy.

[–] WytchStar@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Reddit's priorities aren't the same as someone developing an app for ease of use, readability, accessibility, etc. Reddit only cares about the backend tech that helps them control and serve ad space. And if you want to believe the bts tea that recently spilled, Reddit doesn't even structurally prioritize coding and development in the first place.

I was an rif die-hard. Such an elegant, useful app. It's nothing like its source site.