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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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[–] Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Reddit app has to cram in those ads, and they don't want you to scroll too fast past those gorgeous ads.

Or reddit is refusing to pay their developers well, while small app projects are made out of passion.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not just ads, but trackers and whatever else they can use to wrangle data from your phone.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yep. It's like adobe acrobat reader.

You can use the official app. Slow and bloated.

You can use something like sumatra or foxit, they're faster and takes up almost no diskspace.

IRC acrobat has trackers and telemetry included, allowing it to send data to adobe about where your mouse hovered, etc. etc.

Same for reddit. Reddit.com doesn't consider users customers. We're product. There to be mined for (personal) data.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apparently some organisations block Sumatra now, which is screwy as hell.

[–] ten4@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Edge can edit PDFs now to fill and sign forms and such, fuck installing anything anymore.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Sumatra is so lightweight though, you literally don't have to wait. IMO it's the best viewer.

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

What??? Why??

[–] 1bluepixel@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ads... Ads everywhere...

It's reaching Facebook levels. I just can't.

[–] zedtronic@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The API pricing is shit, but I care more about how I’m forced into an app with ads. That’s really the straw that made me seek alternatives in earnest.

[–] Thalyssa@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The app also heats up my phone like games do.

RiF and Sync do not. Because they are made by people who care about user experience.

[–] meldroc@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Takes a lot of power to do that data collection...