cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247
Finally tried the official Reddit app. It's as bad as they say.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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I'm gonna be honest with ya'll, even before all this 3rd party app stuff I never understood why anyone would use an app to view a fucking website. It's like thinking "yes, let me seek and purposely download spyware on my phone to have a worse user experience and see the same thing I can see in my browser without ads"
The beauty of these 3rd party apps is that they had features that made it look and behave much better that any official app that objects ads, forces certain “promoted content”, etc. I loved using Apollo and haven’t visited Reddit since the 30th. Currently using Memmy on iOS. Not a huge fan of mobile sites as they don’t seem to ever function as well, though wefwef seems to be amazingly close.
Some companies makes their apps a lot better than their website and you often get more and better features from a mobile users point of view. But I also prefer the browser because I don't want to fill my phone with apps I use only once a week or less and I can use adblocker. But it is pretty nice to be able to jump between apps instead of jumping between tabs. I have a lot of tabs open instead of downloading their app and also stuff I want to remember or pages I use often. I try to clean it up but I always have an infinity icon instead of a number for my tabs 😂 I tried using bookmarks but it is easier to find the right page as a tab (big thumbnail)
I'm of a similar mindset. In theory there could be some advantages to users for some kinds of apps but companies tend to need to develop and maintain a good mobile version of the site anyway.
And some of the advantages might not be wanting features like notifications or location data. Neither are probably great for reddit, at least how a lot of people use it.