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Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by majkeli@lemmy.world to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] Clbull@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe I can elaborate.

As somebody who uses the official Reddit app (Android), it's complete dog shit and ridden with bugs. Tapping links will often direct you to a completely different thread, videos often don't play or if they do, audio is disabled, sometimes comment threads don't load at all, etc. I would 100% recommend using a third-party app for browsing Reddit and the only reason I ditched BaconReader was because I had some compatibility issues a few years ago.

If the official app wasn't a vastly inferior alternative to browsing the site and like a worse version of New Reddit, a lot of people would be less pissed off at Spez over this.

[–] gotofritz@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Oh don't take me wrong, I am not saying they are handling this well. Specifically on the app, it's idiotic to force people off unofficial apps without the official app being if not better at least comparable in quality. That's why I use the web version - that and the fact I don't want apps collecting location and sensor data as I go about my day. I am not sure why people assume the Apollo devs are trustworthy and are not selling your data like everyone else does.