Casmael ( Casmael@geddit.social ) to Lord of the memes@midwest.socialEnglish · 3 years agoWhen first party app is very bad and third party app is deadi.imgur.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up1216file-text
arrow-up1216external-linkWhen first party app is very bad and third party app is deadi.imgur.comCasmael ( Casmael@geddit.social ) to Lord of the memes@midwest.socialEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square11linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBarqsHasBite ( someguy3@lemmy.ca ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 years agoWasn’t that effectively Alien Blue? Until they shut it down of course.
minus-squareBaby Shoggoth [she/her] ( rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 years agoYep! the period of time between when reddit bought alien blue and just paid the developers to keep working on it, and shutting down that app and making an official app, is the closest thing there is to a second party app.
minus-squareCasmael ( Casmael@geddit.social ) OPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 years agoYeah didn’t they buy alien blue to ‘make their app better’ but I don’t understand why they did that because their app is still terrible
minus-squarerubythulhu ( rubythulhu@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 years agoReddit’s definition of “better” is “better for reddit”, not “better for our users”.
Wasn’t that effectively Alien Blue? Until they shut it down of course.
Yep! the period of time between when reddit bought alien blue and just paid the developers to keep working on it, and shutting down that app and making an official app, is the closest thing there is to a second party app.
Yeah didn’t they buy alien blue to ‘make their app better’ but I don’t understand why they did that because their app is still terrible
Reddit’s definition of “better” is “better for reddit”, not “better for our users”.