It was one of those few 3rd party Apps that still worked. Apparently dev was in talks with Reddit in obtaining Paid-API-Access, but now they cut of his API-Access mid talks without informing him
Another sign Reddit was never interested in having third party apps at all. They want all mobile traffic through their own app.
Dystopia for Reddit seems like it has the best staying power since it serves an accessibility need that the bloated official app can’t. I’m down to that and Old Reddit. If they kill off both, I’m probably done.
Their mobile site is far superior to their app still. Especially when you switch it to the classic style. If only res worked on a mobile browser it would be perfect.
I absolutely hate their mobile site. It’s nothing compared to the mobile oriented experience I got from Sync.
Exactly. They are trying to monetize everyone they can before their IPO. They don’t admit it, but we all know the truth.
Which would be fine at all, you know. It’s their platform and their servers, and they can do what they want.
Except for the fact that the official app is several orders of magnitude more primitive, inefficient and uncomfortable to use. Even more so for Android than for iOS
The fact that you still can’t change text size on Android, when people were asking for that feature seven years ago, is a travesty.
Oh yeah, the benefit on Android was always the sheer number of third-party Reddit apps in spite of the official one being worse than the iOS version. I missed Relay and Boost once I switched to iPhone.
Now I wonder how they expect Android users to be able to use Reddit on mobile anymore.
Who gives that platform value? Who fills it with content for them to profit off of? Who moderates it for them, for free?
Users.
And they should be able to interact with the site they built up however the hell they please.
Except that they were very friendly to third-party app developers for 15 years and are now claiming they didn’t know third-party apps existed.
It’s telling that they got angry about the recording being released more than anything.
Before this went down, Christian and other app developers had nothing but great things to say about Reddit, especially regarding their communication regarding upcoming changes that could break their third-party apps, so I’m not buying the “We didn’t know they were using the API to download all of Reddit!” argument at all. There are a few YouTubers making that argument as well, that Reddit didn’t know app developers were making third party apps and the API wasn’t intended for it.
I would literally be fine with scrolling past some ads if the shit worked. Their app (and the god awful redesigned site, always used the old.reddit when on a PC) was just so freaking bad. Like I’ll tolerate some corporate bullshit and ads if IT WORKS WELL. You can’t make me consume ads to use a broken half functional product.
Did you know that, new Reddit was designed so user spend more time on Reddit?
Less content on page mean reduce mental fatigue, mean more time spend scrolling.
Less content mean each content will have more of you attention. Meaning that an ads insert in the scroll will get more click.
It’s all so dystopian, I wonder how many people there are in the world whose entire job is to use psychology to benefit the company at the cost of the user
I used the Android app for a long while before I found out there were 3rd party apps. By the time I tried them I was so used to the horrible Reddit app I Just stuck with it. My biggest gripe with it was that they would make huge sweeping changes that changed how the app worked with no warning, no way to go back, and you Just had to change the way you browsed.
Then when I switched to an iPhone every time I tabbed out of the app (to read a link or whatever) then went back into Reddit the app would scroll me all the way to the top of whatever feed I was reading at the time.
Uninspired corporate MBA garbage at its finest
Also for the fact that they lie through their teeth and can’t even give the decency of honest business.
Why the fuck would we trust these idiots with our data/hard work?
Which is why people should scrub their comments. A lot of people are holding on to “The good times.” with their posts and comments. It doesn’t matter if reddit can technically undo the work, I’m still going to check and make sure it stays gone. Without that content, reddit is nothing.
How long before they claim that’s against some of the ToS and restore the comments I wonder?
Good luck with GDPR.
To be honest, I respect that position, but I don’t hold enough contempt against them to do that, and on the other hand I do value Reddit as an archive of online knowledge and debate. I can just leave it if I don’t want it in my life anymore. I would like any comments I made on specific topics I’m knowledgeable about to be accessible and used as reference in the future.
You can request your data in a simple form submission and the ndownload it, all in .csv and other text formats. The request takes about a week.
Afterwards, use Violentmonkey or another script manager to overwrite and delete all your comments.
I’ve already done it on an account that was over a decade old, no regrets.
I requested my data. Moore than a week ago. Nothing happened.
It took me two/three weeks to get my data.
But that’s not the point. I’m not saying I’m super important, but I believe I have helped several people with technical or academic questions on Reddit before, and anyone looking that up could access my comments and they might help other people in the future.
I don’t hate Reddit as a corporation enough to erase what might be useful to someone else in the future, and they can profit off of it if they want, since I didn’t make those comments with my profit in mind anyway.
I understand wanting to erase your data from Reddit, and I realize it’s also a responsible decision, but I personally don’t like the idea of wiping clean one of the greatest hubs of information in the entire internet, even if I disagree with their corporate practices.
I’m sure there are places like the internet archive who have copies, your stuff isn’t gone if you delete it.
Reddit is like the ex who cheated on you, that person isn’t the person you knew. Now you can leave behind your stuff at their place, but why would you? You are rewarding them by gifting your stuff, making them more respectable and credible, than you know they really are.
People say move on. Move on, and take your stuff with you.
Which tool did you use to delete your comments? I used Power Delete Suite but was only able to delete 1700 out of the 4000 total comments I wrote with my account.
I used reddit-shreddit . Only ones it won’t get is from subs that have been disabled.
I appreciate the answer.
Unfortunately it seems it will be down because of the API policies. I hope it’s coming back.
Joey was my go to reddit app, and I’m really sad to read about the developer stressing out. They seemed pretty cool, so it sucks that reddit is doing this to them.
This was the moment I moved to Lemmy. I was hemming and hawing but after Joey I was done. Would love to see a Joey for Lemmy someday.
Gutted about this… thought was just a technical issue yesterday then got the message today directing me to Lemmy so here I am. Reddit is an asshat.
I used Joey for few years. I expected that it will end after API changes, but it’s still sad. I wonder what another project will be about, I signed to newsletter. I guess, it’s time to move to Lemmy more than I did
Joey refugee here. I was registered via vlemmy but that died too so I’ve been ousted from two things I like this week.
What happened to vlemmy?
Nobody knows, they just went dark.
Boost is still working for me. Not sure why.
I think if you were a mod at some point, it will work.
Relay still works too. The dev is also in talks with reddit about paid API access, but hasn’t had it shut off.
Huh, Boost broke for me a week-ish ago. I’m waiting with baited breath for Boost for Lemmy to be up an running.
I’m currently my app of choice (Sync) but patching it with Revanced and using my own API key. It’s super easy and free. Works. Beautifuly for the moment.
Same here. At first, I thought Reddit might be phasing the API changes but doesn’t seem to be the case. After seeing someone’s comments about moderator accounts allowed to have continued access, that seems to be the case testing against a few of my accounts. Only the accounts that were moderators have continued access via Boost.
Joey was the best.
Wow, reddit reaching new levels of suck right here.
It’s a sad day for all of us.
That’s why I’m here now
Me too bro…
Here here
Joey was one of the best, free Reddit apps for Android. It’s a shame they did him in anyway even though he tried to cooperate. Between just using a browser for Lemmy and using the official Reddit app (which is slow, laggy, and has ads), I’d stick to the browser.
I tried getting the browser to work, cuz ya the app is hot garbage between the ads and awful notifications. Even using the browser it was unusable. Gave up after ten minutes of trying to just sign in or browse the front page till I came here.
Hopefully the Joey Dev opens someone similar for lemmy!
I’m here because Joey got shutdown. It was a great app!
it’s sad Joey was a great app.
How hard it is to replace the backend while keeping the experience the same?
Depends on how the code was written, it can vary between “a few days of work” and “it’s easier to write a new one”
