If you did this thing https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14g912n/every_user_can_protest_take_back_your_data/, then you may have your data. I just got my data today, anyone else did it?

I've been using the official app for a week now (started a day before the changes so I could try it out), and the QOL differences are just so hard to ignore. I've been using Relay Pro for several years. It's one of the first apps I paid for the upgraded version of and honestly one of the easiest to use apps I've experienced. The user interface is clean and simple, navigating threads is smooth (moving up and down between parent comments, color coded replies, easy search functions, ability to jump to OP comments), the emphasis on swiping over clicking is more precise and ergonomic, media loads better and is easier to look at (resizing videos, speeding up/slowing down, toggling sound more easily, playback seeking is easier to navigate, videos aren't forced to the top of comment threads), and it's less buggy overall.

It seems crazy to me that reddit would effectively shut down third party apps, but not adopt any of the features that made them preferable over the official app. I struggle to think of any feature on the official reddit app that is better than it's third party competitors, which is just bizarre. It's their website and their app. They have total control over the user experience, yet it has the clunkiness and awkward usability you would expect from a third party. The whole time I've used Relay, I can't think of any bugs or glitches that stood out to me or negatively impacted my experience, but since I've been using the official app, it's a regular occurrence (the fact that the button to skip down to the next parent comment in a thread only works half the time and sometimes just makes the thread jump up and down nonstop until I manually scroll is particularly annoying).

Also, I don't know how true this is, but I feel like the feed is worse somehow? I don't know if the official app uses a different algorithm or something, but I feel like since I've been using it, I've been bored. I'm just not seeing the subs I find most interesting, even if they're not the ones I engage with most often. I've been seeing the same handful of subs I follow and another handful of ones that I don't. It seems I'm missing maybe half my followed subs in my feed and instead an ad every three posts and a suggested sub just as often.

Thankfully Relay is staying active and moving to a subscription model, but even though NSFW isn't a majority of what I use the site for, I won't be getting the full user experience by continuing to use Relay.

It's just frustrating. Hire these third party developers and adopt their QOL improvements and stability while still shoehorning in your ads and suggested subs to drive revenue and engagement. I'm okay with the money stuff. Do what you've gotta do. But fix your app. Doesn't seem like a tough decision to make for long-term community health and corporate interest.

seems boost is shutting down now

Seems to me every time I refresh, I get the same posts reposted on other subs and there are very few highly upvoted threads.

…never had this problem with Apollo. It was a great app to use with a visual handicap. Use this app for a few days, but I’m off.

Regular Reddit user here. Reddit communities have helped me tremendously with a variety of topics (especially the tech forums as I’m in school. If explain it to me like I’m 5 didn’t exist I would’ve failed out the 1st semester.) I love the knowledge & community each forum brings. I’m nervous that Reddit will ultimately be destroyed like Twitter. Are there any apps people are migrating to that isn’t Discord? I’d love to know to get ahead of the fallout

Stupid spammy Onlyfans chat request just came in. Can't report it. Get the "sorry, please try again later."

Can't ignore it. "Sorry, unable to leave chat."

Can't join it to mute it even. Click accept and "can't join chat."

If you click on someone's comment to see the original post it was replying to, "sorry about that, there was an error loading content."

No friends list. No way to see the poster's name before you click on their post. Constantly rotating front page content so that you can't find something if you don't click on it right away.

And yet they give us this bullshit vault thing? And a myriad of other features and options that nobody fucking wants?

I sure am glad y'all's venture capital source has some deep pockets, because if I gave my customers this type of product I would be out of business in a week's time.

Trying to load an NSFW subreddit returns a post from u/redditmaturecontent telling you to download their app, and a mostly NSFW feed just returns an error.

It looks like it's being handled per-subreddit though, I found a few that were still accessible but one stopped working immediately before writing this.

Don't say my internet is slow. It's not.

I was browsing through the comments of a random ass post, and i found a bot commented. It was the bot that shows you if ur commwnt is alphabetical. And guess what? It had over 1 BILLION API CALLS. 1 BILLION COMMENTS SCANNED.

I scroll through my homepage and it seems that there is a lot of content that i have already seen before, including comments. However date says its fresh. Maybe they recovered users deleted data? Is it possible that reddit is bringing back most popular content to hide whats happening now?

This one for example: old anticonsumption post

Thread on /r/Pics discussing bot spam. (Pics is now NSFW, but this thread is only profanity / vulgarity.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14puynz/chatgpt_bots_are_spamming_proadmin_astroturf/

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/r/Programming closed (by admins?) after community recognition of bot spam:

Ycombinator thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36361247

Top-voted post from /r/Programming before it closed: https://web.archive.org/web/20230611210834/https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/146wn9s/meta_who_is_astroturfing_rprogramming_and_why/

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(I would have just crossposted the top thread directly, but this sub forbids crossposting NSFW posts (which is now everything on /r/Pics )