Re:Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed
by highmastdon on Sunday February 16, 2020 @12:22PM
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I’m still using Alien Blue. The reader mode for external websites and the multireddit categories is what I’m missing most in other Reddit apps
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Re:Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed
by iamthatis on Sunday February 16, 2020 @12:40PM
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Yo, Apollo dev here. Could you clarify a bit? There's a setting to make Apollo always use reader mode for websites, and you can create/edit/view multireddits in Apollo as well, I don't think Alien Blue even had multireddit support? (https://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/2kd9yz/does_alie...)
Re:Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed
by rlad on Monday February 17, 2020 @12:31AM
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Alien Blue works better than Apollo in reader mode in several very significant ways:
- In AB dark mode there is no white flash! The screen stays black while the page is loading. In Apollo the screen goes white until the page is finished loading.
- In AB the reader mode forces all sites into reader / minimal HTML mode whether or not the website wants to allow reader mode
- In AB the reader mode seems to get more images and other content which is left out of reader mode by websites. It also seems to be less confused by some websites that display something other than the main content when reader mode is selected.