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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by gowld on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:08PM (#19088612)
There's no "better experience" in an app, unless it relies on native features like low-level high performance graphics, accelerometer/sensors, and other physical phone attributes not yet exposed to browsers.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by saagarjha on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:11PM (#19089266)
Specific native features that you're missing are platform controls, better UI performance, and support for APIs like notifications.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by simple_phrases on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:01PM (#19089781)
A comments section on a news site doesn't need high performance UI controls or native notifications.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by saagarjha on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @06:43PM (#19091269)
The fact that Apollo exists and is popular (though, I personally don't think its controls are native enough) means that this isn't really true.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by Spivak on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:59PM (#19092824)
And Sync and AlienBlue if they're still around. It blows my mind that one dev is able to push out such a high quality product where the official app feels amateurish by comparison. It really highlights the difference between development that serves Reddit vs development that serves the user.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by ric2b on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @08:35AM (#19094909)
Yup, Reddit Sync is great, Relay for Reddit also! The official app is such a disappointment in comparison.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by hombre_fatal on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:41AM (#19093419)
I found Apollo last year and was so impressed that it inspired me to finally get into iOS development.

Until then, not being much of a phone user at all, I'd been convinced that mobile experiences were always worse than desktop ones.

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