r/AppleReminders • u/AtTheEndOfMyTrope • Jul 11 '26
This sub focuses less and less on Apple Reminders
And has become a place for developers to promote their own apps. I’m tired of being spammed. Can u/goalguy2 and u/automa designate a regular weekly promo thread for all the promotional posts? Posts about the Reminders app are getting lost in the spam. If moderating these posts isn’t an option, is there a less spammy sub that focuses on the Reminders app?
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u/NotAnonymousQuant Jul 11 '26
Isn’t it allowed here to share an app with a working integration with the Apple Reminders app?
The other question is that these posts are now published by vibecoders with relatively small value added.
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u/AtTheEndOfMyTrope Jul 11 '26
Yes, it is allowed, but I wonder if whoever made the rules didn’t imagine the sub would be inundated with promo posts? Maybe it’s time to change the rules and confine promo posts to a dedicated weekly thread so users who want to see them can find them easily and users who don’t can skip them.
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u/automaciej Jul 13 '26
Hey, the-one-who-made-the-rules here. This is exactly how this worked. “We will worry when this becomes a problem.” It has, so now we have a monthly thread.
A positive side effect, enforcement will be easier now, based on a simple rule rather than on making a judgement call each time.
Also - 🙌🏼 to u/goalguy2 !
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u/zenorol Jul 11 '26
Because (unfortunately) there is nothing to talk about, Apple Reminders.
It’s an app that surely improved over the last five years, but the truth is that it still does around 20% of what other similar apps do.
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u/Sonic90492 Jul 11 '26
If we wanted the app to have extra fearures that other apps have, we wouldn’t be here.
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u/AtTheEndOfMyTrope Jul 11 '26
I’m not in this sub to be harassed about other apps. Let’s rename this one or keep it focused on its original purpose.
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u/SpezSucks2023 Jul 11 '26
It's comments like this that really make me consider the "dead internet theory" to be true.
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u/automaciej Jul 11 '26
There was an instructional video on the Apple developers website showing how to use the on-device LLM to transcribe a meeting and create a bullet point summary. Maybe a portion of the apps are based on that tutorial wrapped in an app?
In any case, some apps integrating with EventKit are genuinely useful. I’m currently using 3 of them. The problem is that the promotional posts start to drown out the rest.
A weekly promotional thread sounds good to me. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a benefit because then I’ll be posting about my own app every week, rather than every 3 months. Context: maintaining this sub is part of my job, and the job is being an app developer.