How many of you use a 3rd-party app to browse Reddit?
- MadMaurice ( @madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de ) English43•1 year ago
Well… Not anymore I don’t
- Hexorg ( @Hexorg@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
Same. Used both RIF and Apollo through the years. Haven’t used anything for a week now.
- MadMaurice ( @madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de ) English4•1 year ago
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.
- Hexorg ( @Hexorg@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Honestly I just picked up reading books and it’s so nice
- fiberandcolor ( @fiberandcolor@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
I’m reading a lot more too.
- Cstrrider1 ( @Cstrrider1@beehaw.org ) English34•1 year ago
I use Infinity since its open source
- derived_allegory ( @derived_allegory@beehaw.org ) English9•1 year ago
Also available on fdroid (until July 1st, of course)
- Thalyssa ( @Thalyssa@kbin.social ) 30•1 year ago
RiF for 10 years.
- LoamImprovement ( @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
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.
- deephurting ( @deephurting@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
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.
- TexMexBazooka ( @TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ) English18•1 year ago
This will be an insanely biased poll
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) English17•1 year ago
Define “currently”… I still have rif on my phone but I haven’t used Reddit in a week
- chinpokomon ( @chinpokomon@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
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.
- blackstrat ( @blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk ) English16•1 year ago
I use Infinity and have found it to be absolutely excellent. I wish I could continue to use it rather than leave altogether.
- innermachine ( @innermachine@lemmy.one ) English10•1 year ago
I am also a long time infinity user, Jerboa feels fairly similar to me.
- blackstrat ( @blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk ) English4•1 year ago
Using that too now. Could do with collapsing threads and skipping to next / previous top level comment and I’d be a little happier. But otherwise quite pleased.
- ds12 ( @ds12@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
What do you mean by collapsing threads? Currently if you clicked on a comment, it should collapse said comment and any children of the comment.
With regards to navigating to the next/previous top level comment, worth putting that as an “issue” on Jerboa’s GitHub as a feature request if one doesn’t exist for this feature already.
- blackstrat ( @blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk ) English2•1 year ago
Haha, you’re right. I was trying to long press the comment to collapse it. I didn’t think of short tapping it!
Turns out there’s already an open issue on the prev/next buttons: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/542
- Lodion 🇦🇺 ( @lodion@aussie.zone ) English16•1 year ago
When I was using reddit, I used Boost.
- TechyDad ( @TechyDad@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Same here. I might go back to Reddit for two subreddits that I can’t get elsewhere, but for all the other subreddits I used to frequent, I’ll be sticking with Lemmy via Jerboa.
- sirvesa ( @sirvesa@beehaw.org ) English16•1 year ago
RiF since I found Reddit so many years ago. I’ve tried others but they never stuck.
- tool ( @tool@r.rosettast0ned.com ) English3•1 year ago
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.
- esty ( @est@tech.lgbt ) 3•1 year ago
- tool ( @tool@r.rosettast0ned.com ) 2•1 year ago
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
- esty ( @est@tech.lgbt ) 2•1 year ago
@tool @derivator that could be awesome, any way to bring over the apps that made reddit great
- derivator ( @derivator@feddit.de ) 1•1 year ago
Still working on this, help is welcome :)
- tool ( @tool@r.rosettast0ned.com ) 1•1 year ago
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?
- derivator ( @derivator@feddit.de ) 2•1 year ago
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.
- tool ( @tool@r.rosettast0ned.com ) 2•1 year ago
Ok. I’ll give it a try some time this weekend, thanks for the tip. Hopefully I can contribute in the future.
- Mr_Grumpy ( @Mr_Grumpy@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English15•1 year ago
When I was using Reddit, I used RIF.
- sjm ( @sjm@vlemmy.net ) English15•1 year ago
I used apollo, but I’ve not been on it since the protests started. Not going back to Reddit either now
- HisNoodlyServant ( @HisNoodlyServant@beehaw.org ) English15•1 year ago
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.
- farllen ( @farllen@beehaw.org ) English13•1 year ago
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.
- flynnguy ( @flynnguy@programming.dev ) English13•1 year ago
Currently? No, because I quit reddit.
But when I was on reddit, I used Relay For Reddit Pro.
- Gatsby ( @Gatsby@lemm.ee ) English4•1 year ago
I had the same thought
- bliss ( @bliss@kbin.social ) 13•1 year ago
Use Apollo and now only open/upvote posts and polls about the resistance.
- CapnJimby ( @CapnJimby@beehaw.org ) English12•1 year ago
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.
- lotanis ( @lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de ) English7•1 year ago
Yeah, after I started using Sync and they did the redesign, desktop browsing felt so slow. Even old.reddit felt clunky compared to Sync.