I’m desktop-only user and never had any experience with Reddit/Lemmy apps, and the sentiment towards them confuzes me.
I can imagine that the third-party apps for Reddit were better (?not bugged?) than the official one. But what made you to love them? Was the experience even better than desktop use?
Feel free to write about both Reddit and Lemmy apps in your responses.
For pooping.
Mobile apps for any service allow said service feel more native to the mobile device it is running on.
For instance, UI wise, it’s like a desktop browser UI vs a mobile browser UI.
Sure, you could have a desktop UI on mobile, but it wouldn’t look good, and wouldn’t adapt to the screen size to make things easy.
Recall that 3rd party mobile apps came before the official Reddit Mobile app. For many people, especially Reddit’s oldest users, their 3rd party app was Reddit for them.
Exactly this. I exclusively used reddit on mobile through Boost, so without it it’s like I’m on a different platform.
There is a feeling of loyalty. Sync was a mainstay on my phone for close to a decade.
Exactly. On the very rare occasion I needed to hop on desktop, it felt like a totally different place. I didn’t use Reddit. I used RiF.
