Yup. I used to use Alien Blue heavily and the UI tweaks that Reddit did to it made it a subpar experience from what it was from the start. I preferred the greater information density, I didn’t need to see the thumbnail images as large as they were, it made poor use of space on the iPad, and I couldn’t swipe back and forth anymore. I continued to use Alien Blue as long as I could and then switched to Apollo.
Same for the "new Reddit" website. It's garbage. I exclusively use old.reddit and have since the beginning, on desktop and on mobile. If that goes away I'm done. I like Lemmy, but honestly old Reddit has a better interface. I wish Lemmy didn't confine itself to 50% of the screen width, it's a stupid modern design trend and I hate it. At least give us a wide Lemmy option.
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tsugu@slrpnk.net · 22 pts · 3y
Don't forget that this abomination was made by a paid team of programmers.
Tangentism@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 3y
Wasn't it originally Alien Blue but Reddit bought it out and like all corporate tech companies that subsume smaller entities, they fucking ruined it?
MrsEaves@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y
Yup. I used to use Alien Blue heavily and the UI tweaks that Reddit did to it made it a subpar experience from what it was from the start. I preferred the greater information density, I didn’t need to see the thumbnail images as large as they were, it made poor use of space on the iPad, and I couldn’t swipe back and forth anymore. I continued to use Alien Blue as long as I could and then switched to Apollo.
Tangentism@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
Sounds like it got Yahoo'd!
Azzk1kr@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 3y
Is it THAT bad?
fluffman86@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 3y
It's worse
homelabber@lemmy.one · -5 pts · 3y
People live to shit on the official app but in terms of UI and functionality is good.
It's far from perfect, but it is very usable.
animist@allthingstech.social · 3 pts · 3y
@homelabber @Azzk1kr agree to disagree
CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 3y
Same for the "new Reddit" website. It's garbage. I exclusively use old.reddit and have since the beginning, on desktop and on mobile. If that goes away I'm done. I like Lemmy, but honestly old Reddit has a better interface. I wish Lemmy didn't confine itself to 50% of the screen width, it's a stupid modern design trend and I hate it. At least give us a wide Lemmy option.
argv_minus_one@beehaw.org · 3 pts · 3y
I used new Reddit for, like, a week, before getting fed up with its sluggishness and switched back to old Reddit.