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The official app is hot garbage (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years 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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[–] kemsat@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

The apps made by small teams and solo devs can be better because large teams at companies can get bogged down by politics & greed.

[–] BitingChaos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm using an early Mlem beta and it already seems better than the official Reddit app.

[–] Chronoman@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago

The thing that killed the official Reddit app for me was the battery drain. It felt like three hours of browsing would be enough to drain my phone's battery. Also the video player was trash. So I jumped on a third party app. I later deleted it, as I felt I was spending too much time on Reddit, and stuck to accessing it on web browser more sparingly. Then I hear that Reddit is experimenting with preventing people from using a mobile browser to access it... Yeah, I'll break from them before I bend for their IPO.

[–] yarr@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The real question is... how many ads did you see?

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