Re:Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one...
by officeplant on Friday June 16, 2023 @02:00PM
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Just like the new site, I can't comprehend how people like the official app. Although I've been using Reddit since 2008, having access on a mobile phone has always been vastly more convenient for me personally. Redditisfun, Diode, BaconReader, Apollo; all of these third party apps kept me going to reddit.
For me reddit without the superior functionality of a group of competing third party apps just isn't worth participating in anymore.
But I recognize a lot of people don't care, or won't be bothered by the changes. For me it just gets added to the list of sites I watched crumble to a shell of their former selves. I was addicted to Reddit in 08/09 and had many sleepless nights digging around niche subs for interesting stories. But like my daily slashdot habit from the early 2000's I move on when its time to give up on a site.
The lifecycle of website enshitification rolls on.
For me reddit without the superior functionality of a group of competing third party apps just isn't worth participating in anymore.
But I recognize a lot of people don't care, or won't be bothered by the changes. For me it just gets added to the list of sites I watched crumble to a shell of their former selves. I was addicted to Reddit in 08/09 and had many sleepless nights digging around niche subs for interesting stories. But like my daily slashdot habit from the early 2000's I move on when its time to give up on a site.
The lifecycle of website enshitification rolls on.