Well... Not anymore I don't
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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Yeah, seems like this poll is missing an important “I did before leaving Reddit” option.
Same. Used both RIF and Apollo through the years. Haven’t used anything for a week now.
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Define "currently"... I still have rif on my phone but I haven't used Reddit in a week
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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.
I use Infinity and have found it to be absolutely excellent. I wish I could continue to use it rather than leave altogether.
I am also a long time infinity user, Jerboa feels fairly similar to me.
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This will be an insanely biased poll
RiF since I found Reddit so many years ago. I've tried others but they never stuck.
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Use Apollo and now only open/upvote posts and polls about the resistance.
Apollo was great while it lasted
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.
Yeah, after I started using Sync and they did the redesign, desktop browsing felt so slow. Even old.reddit felt clunky compared to Sync.
I've been using boost for a little over a year. I have not be on since the blackout started.
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I use(d) Infinity
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.
Before all this kerfluffle with the API, I have used Reddit is Fun for mobile for several years. I will be really bummed to see it go.
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I mean, kind of...
I use Sync and still have it installed, but now it just aggravates me when I open it. Not because of Sync, but because Reddit is just... bleh.
Maybe I'll uninstall it later, but I'm tired and lazy. Not like I have a longtime account to delete since I coincidentally did that over a month ago for other reasons.
Do need to delete the one a I made a few weeks ago for NSFW shit. I'm sure Reddit will really miss having that 3 karma account.
Rif. Working on understanding this ui
I used apollo, but I've not been on it since the protests started. Not going back to Reddit either now
RiF for several years!
Boost for Reddit is awesome!
Even if by some miracle the 3rd party apps survive, too late.
Fuck Spez... I'm out. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
When I was using reddit, I used Boost.
Currently? No, because I quit reddit.
But when I was on reddit, I used Relay For Reddit Pro.
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Sync all the way
I used Baconreader, Relay, and in 2014 got Sync pro and have used that ever since.
I stopped using reddit for the blackout and have been trying Jerboa and /kbin since then.
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I used RIF for over a decade, it did everything I wanted so I never sought out an alternative.
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I've been using Relay for maybe 10 years? It's a bit of an underdog and doesn't get spoken about a lot, but over the years I've tried a bunch of Reddit apps and Relay is the one I liked the most.
It used to be called "Reddit News" until Reddit cracked down on apps using "Reddit" in their name. Their rules changed to only allow "for Reddit" at the end of the name, so Reddit News became "Relay for Reddit", rif (Reddit is Fun) became "rif is fun for Reddit", etc.
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Currently? No I deleted my accounts, when I still had them though I used infinity
Sync for reddit pro for years, now using a browser for kbin.social.
Relay. The official app can go fuck itself.
infinity
There's no way this poll is accurate. Just looking at the Play Store the official app has 100M+ downloads. The bext closest, rif, has 5M+. I think people underestimate how many casual users go straight to the official app and don't care about any of this is.
I mean, I also thought there is probably not that many people... BUT your comment made me actually think otherwise. RIF's 5% is actually huge!! And that is just one app; we don't even know how many are using FOSS apps through F-droid... so I'd say the third-party app ecosystem is probably very, very big, I'd say easily at least 30 % of mobile users are third-parties.
How many millions of users actually installed the official app and went "oh, god, nope", or found out about better apps later on... I'd say that is also pretty big. And not happening the other way around.
So, pure speculation here, but this is probably Reddit's desperate move to change a very possibly growing tendency of third-party app users.
Keep in mind that rif has been around since 2010, and the official app launched in 2016. I think the opposite is true, anecdotally I've noticed discussion of 3PA has gone down in the past 5 years. People used to talk about it all the time, I didn't hear much until this controversy. Most redditors are not power-users, I don't think many of them would know what F-Droid is let alone use it. I'd personally guess that 3PA usage is under 10%.
I think this change was mainly sparked by cracking down on AI scraping bots, and killing 3PA was a two-birds-one-stone side effect to prepare for their IPO.
When I had an iPhone 3+ years ago, Apollo was the only way I interacted with Reddit. Once I switched to Android, I cycled through the choices before settling pretty happily with Boost. I don't intend to access or use Reddit on mobile at all once June 30th rolls around, and after the CEO's public comments since the protest, I don't really want to access it on desktop either.
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I was using rif for years, I don't see myself ever downloading the reddit app partly because it sucks but now I have a bad taste in my mouth after all this. If they had of just improved their own app and left the third party ones alone I probably would have used it.
Reddit is Fun for around 10 years, Bacon Reader for around 2 years before that. I have quit Reddit since last week and don't intend to ever go again outside of the random Google search result.
When I was using Reddit, I used RIF.
I've used both RiF and Sync, and between the two of them I'd probably say Sync was my favorite. I hope both of the devs land on their feet, they produced amazing apps.
I used Infinity until I deleted my Reddit account in connection with the protests. Now I don't use Reddit at all.
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