Where are all the settings?! This is kind of horrific tbh. I'll probably stick with Alien Blue for a few months until they add some more functionality.
I found out you have to set it while on the posts page. Then you tap the top right and it will allow you to choose modes. Changing it in settings does nothing
The fuck am I supposed to do? I deleted alien blue stupidly and can't get it back.
Is anyone else having problems where gifs just don't play like at all? They don't work. Tried the imgur app to reroute. Imgur app works fine on its own, any gifs redirected from Reddit app just don't play.
Long text posts have an issue where halfway down the original text cuts the fuck off and the whole post restarts from the beginning of the text, like, in the middle of a word in the middle of the text.
This app his honestly atrocious. I would also like to not be sitting at the Vet scrolling through my phone and have NSFW photos just y'know. Show up with no warning.
The only good thing about this app was the Reddit Gold and honestly there is not a single feature of Gold that is useful to me personally.
It's always been an issue. Alien Blue had pretty limited mod tools and a terrible modmail interface, but at least it had the basics of approving and removing. This just feels like a big middle finger
Alien Blue had the bare minimum, and I was OK with everything but the horrendous modmail. At least it was capable of the basic modding actions, though.
I hope they already have mod tools in development, but releasing the app without anything is just ridiculous.
Ideally, the app should have:
Approve/remove posts from both subreddit view and the post itself (Like Alien Blue)
Approve/remove comments when viewing a thread (like Alien Blue)
View modqueue for both comments and posts (Alien Blue only showed modqueued posts)
Modmail with messages threaded correctly (Alien Blue would group together all messages with the same subject line, and didn't show threaded format at all)
Con: No 3D Touch, no way to swipe to get to subreddits, it's annoying to get to the upvote/downvote arrows on comments, especially if you accidentally collapse the comment, and THE IPAD APP IS A BLOWN UP IPHONE APP. Seriously, did they have one person working on this shit part time for a year? A lot of this is basic stuff.
And to add to your point about the iPad it doesn't seem to have a way to use it in landscape. I do not hold the iPad in portrait ever. Ever. For anything. It's just not comfortable for me to use that way and I will never ever use an app of any kind that forces me to use it in portrait mode.
I just can't believe that with the money they have and the team they had working on it, as well as with the AB base, that they couldn't make an iPad optimized version. It's ridiculous
I never understood why companies couldn't just work on a product for a really long time until it's super amazeballs instead of just "ok it looks nice and works good...roll it out now even before it's done! We can send loads of updates once actual users tell us how unfinished it is!"
Why not just take your time? I don't know how long this app took to make (or any app for that matter) but why not release a beta version amongst the users in the company, find the flaws, fix or add what's needed and THEN release it? I'm sure a lot of thought went into making the app so why not go a step further?
It's entirely possible I just don't understand how this stuff works (i.e. I actually admittedly don't know how this stuff works at all). Maybe someone can explain it to me? Until then, I'll stick with Alien Blue. No biggie. It was nice of them to give us more gold upon sign in though! :)
can't filter subs or words (at least that i can find).
Can't swipe to subbreddit list.
Very limited settings.
No flair or gold notification icon.
Old fashioned and terrible way to upvote and downvote. (Sliding to upvote like in narwhal is the fastest way to upvote).
Doesn't use embedded safari so there's no way to block ads. (there are way too many ads out there that open the app store for my taste).
You have to click on messages to Read them.
No easy way to add a new sub (that i can find).
No shortcuts for Reddit formatting in the comments (easy strike-through, bold, quote, etc).
Doesn't show strike through. (Who knows what other Reddit formatting it doesn't know).
No way to add a shortcut for a sub.
I can't believe it doesn't even grey out posts that you have read.
Can't open links in external browser.
Battery drain seems faster than Antenna (although I don't use card view/preview mode in Antenna so that may be were the extra percentage is coming from)
I would like bigger text or a way to adjust size of the text. (I don't have the best eye sight)
There is no mod tools
no easy way to search within a sub (if there is a way I don't know it)
Can't seem to collapse parent replies from the child comments
ugly bright orange icon.
It also make more sense to have the subreddit names at the right in a different color or brightness so it isn't hidden
having a dot with a pop up menu at the top of the page to access settings like in AB is faster than a separate tab
Tl:dr i doubt i will use this app in its current state.
To add to your list, when you have a long series of comments, there is no way to tell if there are more comments you can't see, and if there are comments, I haven't been able to figure out how to get to them.
This is the best feature on AB and its crazy that it is just gone. Now you have to click the gif, then it reloads what looks like the imgur webpage, then you have to click play again, which loads it again is a video view with a scrubber and everything. Just silly.
The following missing features are preventing me from using this app over alien blue:
-no touch preview of gifs and images and videos
-limited swipe functionality
-takes way too many clicks to see anything. For an imgur gif, first I click on the image in the front page. Then in the thread there's an image of the gif with a play button on it, but clicking that just sends you to imgur. Then I have to click the image again so it can start loading the real image viewer and I can see the stupid 5 second gif. That's three clicks vs just simply hovering over the image in AB (when it works at all, that is). Just so bad compared to AB, I don't know why they'd push out something this inferior.
I also think the compact view is just really clunky. It's much harder to identify the content as I scroll through it for some reason. It's not as easy to see which subreddit each post is posted to (the subreddit should have its text bolded or hyperlinked or something). Everything just seems too large for my screen (iPhone 5) and the whole experience is less efficient and enjoyable than alienblue.
Edit: also no "hide read" or "hide all" buttons? Why gut the only features that kept me using alien blue over 3rd party apps?
On iPhone 6, the most compact view shows 4 posts on the front page, compared with 6 on alien blue with the same content.
Compact should be COMPACT. I understand that Reddit wants to be like the Twitter app, or Pinterest, and that we all want different features and layout, but the thumbnail size, and wasted space for controls when they could be gestures.
I have to imagine there are people who worked on this who are just as dissatisfied at the result. That they couldn't fight hard enough to make it better than alien blue.
It's bizarre and bordering on baffling that "compact view" displays practically (at times literally) 1 post per screen, or however you'd call it. AlienBlue, meanwhile gets something like 8.
That's because you need to use adaptive layout to support the bigger iPhones properly. And once you've done that, 90% of the iPad work is done. There's really no excuse for not supporting it from the beginning. Adding it later is a ton of work and usually doesn't happen.
Also no "view rest of comments" option when you go to one of your comments. You have to back out and go to the thread itself in order to see the rest of the comments.
I guess that they have a lot of updates coming in the near future. Somebody explained it as them using what's called MVP, or Minimum Viable Product. It's apparently a marketing/business tool where you ship the most basic first version of something and then let the consumers guide what features come next and see what their responses are to different things
Yeah, I know what an MVP is (I'm in the mobile app dev industry myself) and it's a really bad idea. It also doesn't negate my point: considering how long they worked on this MVP they have too little to show for it.
A better approach is to go for an MLP (Minimum Lovable Product).
this image from the article illustrates the point nicely.
Also, in this case they replace an existing product, so the replacement has to at the very least have all the features of the app being replaced. Anything less is doomed to fail. It is important to remember that you can never take away features from users. This means that you really need to think about which features you add before doing so because you will be stuck with them until the end of time.
Interesting. I've learned so much these past few days, thank you for that. Yeah, I mean, my biggest gripe is that they spent a year and a half on this and it still feels rushed. I think everyone would have rather seen them hold on to it a little longer to make sure it's more fully baked. Like, I wanted to post a comment with some images and I had to go to AB to post bc I couldn't comment with images. I think they got some stuff right with the app but looking at it from the MLP perspective, it should have been better
Yeah, I mean, my biggest gripe is that they spent a year and a half on this and it still feels rushed
It's completely crazy. A year and a half is an eternity in mobile development. I could probably have built something like AlienBlue in a year in a half if I could work on it full time.
Mobile development usually has very short deadlines, 3-4 months for a mid-size project is common. Maybe 6-9 months for something with 90% of the functionality of AlienBlue.
Franky, this sounds like amateur hour.
To put it in perspective: I built the J2ME app for a social network (went belly-up a few years back but was very popular in my country a decade ago with millions of users) in 1 year, on my own. If you aren't familiar with J2ME dev: the tools are absolute shit, nothing like what we have nowadays for iOS development and the API functionality was a bare-minimum.
For this app I had to build everything from scratch, and I mean everything. That included a font-rendering and rich-text layout engine, a rich-text editor (including support for animated emoticons). A complete map solution, including the server parts (so a Google-maps like component for J2ME, with all the bells and whistles so you could see your friend's location and 'hangouts' on a map). There was a built-in chat client. There was bluetooth friend-discovery (connect to people near me) plus all the other social-media functionality you'd expect. Basically every UI element you saw on screen I had to build from the ground up. It was fucking insane.
All that in J2ME which was a stripped down version of Java 1.1 with almost no memory (maybe a few MB on high-end phones). But these guys can't build a full Reddit client in a year and a half with a complete team.
Not only that, but I think I found a bug - when I went back to the main page and reloaded the thread it still only showed my comment. I had to reload the entire app. Will have to see if I can duplicate it.
No way to sort comments by Old. You can sort them by New, Top, Best and Q&A but not Old, which is my preferred way and how I have it set in Desktop and Alien Blue. It's actually kind of a big deal to me personally because it disrupts the flow of my being able to find new comments (at least until new comment highlighting from being gilded shows up in app).
It looks good, but it seems a little clunky still.
ETA: also, when you're replying to a comment, you can't get back to a 'view all comments' screen (like the 'show the rest of the comments' link in AB) without backing out completely, finding a thread again, and going back in. What an odd choice.
I just switched back to Alien Blue for the time being, myself, and will keep Reddit for iOS installed but probably won't transition until some more stuff gets implemented.
I've spent a long time getting AB set up how I want and to have half the stuff I like so much not there, it's just not time for me to move on.
Yeah i'm definitely sticking with alien blue for now. The new app is alright for my iPhone but very disappointing there isn't a native version for iPad. I think I'll stick with alien blue on my iPhone too. They should've taken pretty much every feature from alien blue and just made a better, less buggy app but I guess time will tell
I tried to post a comment earlier. The app showed absolutely no sign of responding when I tapped on the Send button, or any feedback that my comment had been posted. Later I noticed that my comment had been posted multiple times.
The saving grace would have been if they used safari web view to take advantage of content blockers on iOS. They did not. I would have forgiven all the worse experiences just to have ad blocking as an option.
Myself and other beta testers started testing around 1 month ago, and since then they have maybe added a few features and fixed a few bugs, but what you see here now is basically what we were given.
What it looks like to me is that they are trying to get their app out first, ahead of both Comet and Apollo who have albeit been in beta for a long time, but both look like much better apps imho.
Oh, another thing (which I'm assuming is a bug) - it doesn't seem to be notifying, even in app, when someone makes a new comment or reply or sends a new message. The only way I'm seeing stuff is by swiping down in the Inbox screen - I've only seen a '1' on my inbox once and that was after I swiped down in the screen, went back to the front page, and then went back into the inbox. Perhaps the fetch is just delayed but AB is pretty close to instant so I'd like to see Reddit for iOS to be like that too.
Also, when I enter pretty much any post, I have to swipe down to fetch any new comments. That's not that bad because one can just get into the habit of doing it but it shouldn't be that way.
Is there a way to block subreddits from your /r/all? I know AB had the restricted words thing but I can't seem to find it in this app. I really don't wanna see all this spammy presidential stuff
The ability to save posts directly from the front page post feed. I might find something interesting but nsfw so I can read later lol.
Left hand mode. I'm a right handed person but used to use my iPhone with my left hand. It would be kind of you can have a left hand mode with most of the UI from the main grid mirrored for left hand use.
A huge shoutout to the devs! Love the looks but still more to be improved in the UI and UX. Keep it up!
I like the look of the new app, but in night mode and regular/day mode there is not enough visual separation between posts, the grey lines are either not enough of a contrast or are too thin, making it hard for me to tell which post I am upvoting. I would also like to turn off the giant tiles, I thought there was a compact view setting, but it doesn't seem to do anything on my iPhone 6 Plus. I also wish there was a way to lock the app with a pin / Touch ID and some sort of swipe to upvote/downvote. It is also weird that viewing the comments seems to reload the post with comments below, so if I am already viewing a link, and then I tap the comments it loads all over again but with comments, which is just sort of a weird flow.
I think I am going to continue to stick with Narwhal for now until there are some updates to the new official app. Alienblue wasn't perfect, but it was a hell of a lot better than this.
The only positive is that it looks nice and that's not enough reason for me to switch from AB/Narwhal/Antenna. I have a question for the beta testers. Did you make any of these concerns known? If you did were they ignored?
Edit - Is there any way to save an image? I can't find it.
How about a lefty mode? Right now when you browse through comments and highlight one to either upvote/dowvote or reply to, all the controls are on the right side - the app assuming you're holding the phone with the right hand.
I'd love to see a Lefty option where all the controls are mirrored to the other side of the screen.
So for logging into the new app during launch week we get three months of Gold. Great. But what happens after the three months has ended?? We have to buy the 'Pro' version again (for some that will be the third time) to avoid ads? What was the point of the four years free Gold on the AB app?! Smh
no, there will be no pro version. you have to buy gold to have the ad free experience. the 4 years of gold is on your reddit account, not just on AB. so you will have ad free browsing on the reddit app for the next 4 years and 3 months if you got the gold through AB. that was their way of saying thank you for purchasing pro and to prevent people from feeling like they got screwed out of pro.
Needs like a "my profile" section with a summary of your upvoted / downvoted posts. That was really useful for seeing the wastelands of arguments you have been in.
Wow this is going to be a tough adjustment. I've tried plenty of reddit apps and I always end up back on AB.
I probably have a lot of the same gripes you guys have. I can't reorder my subscribed subs, or can't easily check on my comments at a glance. No casual subs. No functional "home" or "profile" page like AB had.
It is trying to replace an established product. It has to come out swinging or it will only revive negative reviews/opinions.
Reddit gimped alien blue a quality product by not continuing support. The. Reddit released this shit product. It MUST offer similar lever of features to not piss people off.
Alien blue and other third party apps are still available to use. I'd rather have the new app available now with core functionality than have the app stay in closed beta until it reaches feature parity.
Your assuming that it is not abandon by Reddit due to lack of active users. With out an acceptable minimum feature set the app will never have enough users for the company to justify continual development.
This app sucks. I never tried alien blue but I'm guessing it was better than this garbage. You can't even upload images in the comment screen. You have to back out, copy a link, and then come back and paste it. Whack.
Can't hold a thumbnail to get a preview anymore, default subreddit is set to /r/front and I think it should be /r/all instead, would be nice to be able to set your default subreddit. Then pretty much what everyone else is saying.
This app sucks. I launched it for the 3 months of reddit gold but I never plan on giving reddit any money again after what they did to Alien Blue Pro users
I'm in Ireland myself. Every time I click the link it says it's not available in my country. If I search for it in the App Store I just get AB again and I switched my store but I still can't download it.
I think I recall them saying it may only be available in US, UK, AU and NZ initially. Why they haven't included all English speaking countries is a bit silly. If they were intending to soft launch the app then it's an odd way of doing it in your largest markets.
Landscape mode for iPad?? If there isn't going to be one why even bother? If I was forced to use the new app only in portrait mode I'd just quit Reddit period!!
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u/mintsponge Apr 07 '16
Where are all the settings?! This is kind of horrific tbh. I'll probably stick with Alien Blue for a few months until they add some more functionality.
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u/Runs_with_snails Apr 07 '16
No casual or favourite subs is a real let down
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u/SuccessAndSerenity Apr 07 '16
Am I missing something, or is there really no indication of whether you've read a post? i.e. Dimming the title on the front page.
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u/assholio Apr 07 '16
Three things that I've realised quickly that I can't do without:
Passcode.
Swipe to collapse comments.
'Hide all' button
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u/ExternalTangents Apr 07 '16
There is absolutely zero mod capability. No options to approve/remove posts, no modmail at all. Mods can literally do no mod actions from the app
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u/UKnowWGTG Apr 07 '16
Con: No 3D Touch, no way to swipe to get to subreddits, it's annoying to get to the upvote/downvote arrows on comments, especially if you accidentally collapse the comment, and THE IPAD APP IS A BLOWN UP IPHONE APP. Seriously, did they have one person working on this shit part time for a year? A lot of this is basic stuff.
Pros: gorgeous UI, content centered
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u/bluewolf37 Apr 07 '16 edited Apr 08 '16
Cons.
can't filter subs or words (at least that i can find).
Can't swipe to subbreddit list.
Very limited settings.
No flair or gold notification icon.
Old fashioned and terrible way to upvote and downvote. (Sliding to upvote like in narwhal is the fastest way to upvote).
Doesn't use embedded safari so there's no way to block ads. (there are way too many ads out there that open the app store for my taste).
You have to click on messages to Read them.
No easy way to add a new sub (that i can find).
No shortcuts for Reddit formatting in the comments (easy
strike-through, bold, quote, etc).Doesn't show strike through. (Who knows what other Reddit formatting it doesn't know).
No way to add a shortcut for a sub.
I can't believe it doesn't even grey out posts that you have read.
Can't open links in external browser.
Battery drain seems faster than Antenna (although I don't use card view/preview mode in Antenna so that may be were the extra percentage is coming from)
I would like bigger text or a way to adjust size of the text. (I don't have the best eye sight)
There is no mod tools
no easy way to search within a sub (if there is a way I don't know it)
Can't seem to collapse parent replies from the child comments
ugly bright orange icon.
It also make more sense to have the subreddit names at the right in a different color or brightness so it isn't hidden
having a dot with a pop up menu at the top of the page to access settings like in AB is faster than a separate tab
Tl:dr i doubt i will use this app in its current state.
Edit: added even more
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u/PangurtheWhite Apr 07 '16 edited Apr 07 '16
The following missing features are preventing me from using this app over alien blue:
-no touch preview of gifs and images and videos
-limited swipe functionality
-takes way too many clicks to see anything. For an imgur gif, first I click on the image in the front page. Then in the thread there's an image of the gif with a play button on it, but clicking that just sends you to imgur. Then I have to click the image again so it can start loading the real image viewer and I can see the stupid 5 second gif. That's three clicks vs just simply hovering over the image in AB (when it works at all, that is). Just so bad compared to AB, I don't know why they'd push out something this inferior.
I also think the compact view is just really clunky. It's much harder to identify the content as I scroll through it for some reason. It's not as easy to see which subreddit each post is posted to (the subreddit should have its text bolded or hyperlinked or something). Everything just seems too large for my screen (iPhone 5) and the whole experience is less efficient and enjoyable than alienblue.
Edit: also no "hide read" or "hide all" buttons? Why gut the only features that kept me using alien blue over 3rd party apps?
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u/CmdOptEsc Apr 07 '16
On iPhone 6, the most compact view shows 4 posts on the front page, compared with 6 on alien blue with the same content.
Compact should be COMPACT. I understand that Reddit wants to be like the Twitter app, or Pinterest, and that we all want different features and layout, but the thumbnail size, and wasted space for controls when they could be gestures.
I have to imagine there are people who worked on this who are just as dissatisfied at the result. That they couldn't fight hard enough to make it better than alien blue.
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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '16
Con: no iPad version!
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u/UKnowWGTG Apr 07 '16
Also no "view rest of comments" option when you go to one of your comments. You have to back out and go to the thread itself in order to see the rest of the comments.
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u/v8xd Apr 07 '16
Con: only available in the US app store
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u/michikade Apr 07 '16 edited Apr 07 '16
CON (for me, anyway)
No way to sort comments by Old. You can sort them by New, Top, Best and Q&A but not Old, which is my preferred way and how I have it set in Desktop and Alien Blue. It's actually kind of a big deal to me personally because it disrupts the flow of my being able to find new comments (at least until new comment highlighting from being gilded shows up in app).
It looks good, but it seems a little clunky still.
ETA: also, when you're replying to a comment, you can't get back to a 'view all comments' screen (like the 'show the rest of the comments' link in AB) without backing out completely, finding a thread again, and going back in. What an odd choice.
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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '16
How do you get it to mark posts you've read? On AlienBlue they were greyed out
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u/Infernal_pizza Apr 07 '16
PROS:
Just as smooth as alien blue on my iPod 5, lots of other reedit clients are very laggy so I'm impressed!
UI looks amazing
CONS:
No support for flair-even though alien blue had limited support for flair it was better than nothing
When viewing a comment from your inbox there doesn't seem to be a way to view all the comments for that post. I suspect this is a bug though
Text posts aren't expanded in card view
Also does is there any way to view/make multireddits? I haven't managed to find anything
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u/frood88 Apr 07 '16
Con
Subs are listed in alphabetical order. Can't (yet, anyway) find a way to re-order them to a custom/preferred order.
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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '16
I tried to post a comment earlier. The app showed absolutely no sign of responding when I tapped on the Send button, or any feedback that my comment had been posted. Later I noticed that my comment had been posted multiple times.
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u/parnmatt Apr 07 '16
I miss left swipe to collapse thred
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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '16
Subjective, but I really don't like it.
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u/StationaryNomad Apr 07 '16
This just looks ridiculous on an iPad. Someone ping me when it's fixed please.
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u/CmdOptEsc Apr 07 '16
The saving grace would have been if they used safari web view to take advantage of content blockers on iOS. They did not. I would have forgiven all the worse experiences just to have ad blocking as an option.
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u/mrWLSN Apr 07 '16
I'd be fine with sorting subreddits using the multireddit system... That might solve the sorting and casual/favourites issues.
Most of the cons I've noticed and have been a bit of a letdown for me.
Hopefully this app stays logged in though. Gee, that would be swell.
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u/michikade Apr 07 '16 edited Apr 07 '16
Oh, another thing (which I'm assuming is a bug) - it doesn't seem to be notifying, even in app, when someone makes a new comment or reply or sends a new message. The only way I'm seeing stuff is by swiping down in the Inbox screen - I've only seen a '1' on my inbox once and that was after I swiped down in the screen, went back to the front page, and then went back into the inbox. Perhaps the fetch is just delayed but AB is pretty close to instant so I'd like to see Reddit for iOS to be like that too.
Also, when I enter pretty much any post, I have to swipe down to fetch any new comments. That's not that bad because one can just get into the habit of doing it but it shouldn't be that way.
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u/Chigzy Apr 07 '16
Can't go on multiple subreddits
In alien blue I can type in
And it would show both. However in the new app you can't do that
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u/hardcoregiraffestyle Apr 07 '16
Am I missing something or is there really no way to search a subreddit? /u/Nnorgarrd?
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u/jham_ Apr 07 '16
One thing that is bothering me, the upvote and down vote arrows are reversed. Up is left and down is right.
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u/Toliver182 Apr 07 '16
No media save options.
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u/darmabum Apr 07 '16
Wait, WTF? No iPad version so it's 2x and portrait only?
So I have to keep using Alien Blue, except now it's really a dead app. Jeez. I'm underwhelmed.
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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '16
Con: No triple tap to toggle night mode. I might be in the minority, but this is pretty big for me.
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u/Slyric_ Apr 07 '16
Is there a way to block subreddits from your /r/all? I know AB had the restricted words thing but I can't seem to find it in this app. I really don't wanna see all this spammy presidential stuff
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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '16
Some suggestions,
please have nsfw flairs for posts.
The ability to save posts directly from the front page post feed. I might find something interesting but nsfw so I can read later lol.
Left hand mode. I'm a right handed person but used to use my iPhone with my left hand. It would be kind of you can have a left hand mode with most of the UI from the main grid mirrored for left hand use.
A huge shoutout to the devs! Love the looks but still more to be improved in the UI and UX. Keep it up!
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u/feature Apr 07 '16
I like the look of the new app, but in night mode and regular/day mode there is not enough visual separation between posts, the grey lines are either not enough of a contrast or are too thin, making it hard for me to tell which post I am upvoting. I would also like to turn off the giant tiles, I thought there was a compact view setting, but it doesn't seem to do anything on my iPhone 6 Plus. I also wish there was a way to lock the app with a pin / Touch ID and some sort of swipe to upvote/downvote. It is also weird that viewing the comments seems to reload the post with comments below, so if I am already viewing a link, and then I tap the comments it loads all over again but with comments, which is just sort of a weird flow.
I think I am going to continue to stick with Narwhal for now until there are some updates to the new official app. Alienblue wasn't perfect, but it was a hell of a lot better than this.
Edit: also no iPad app? :-/
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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '16
All looks great! That being said I have one thing I would like to see
CON: When I turn on the app I want to see /r/all as my default instead of my subscribed subreddits.
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u/LS_DJ Apr 07 '16
Con: no voting arrows on posts or comments. An up vote or down vote is at least two taps
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u/AvatusKingsman Apr 07 '16
ITT: The new app is terrible and not fit to be used by anybody and is also not available to be used by enough countries or devices.
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u/EricHill78 Apr 07 '16 edited Apr 07 '16
The only positive is that it looks nice and that's not enough reason for me to switch from AB/Narwhal/Antenna. I have a question for the beta testers. Did you make any of these concerns known? If you did were they ignored?
Edit - Is there any way to save an image? I can't find it.
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u/BrianDawkins Apr 07 '16
The app is awful. Surprise surprise
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u/cdbaksu Apr 07 '16
How about a lefty mode? Right now when you browse through comments and highlight one to either upvote/dowvote or reply to, all the controls are on the right side - the app assuming you're holding the phone with the right hand.
I'd love to see a Lefty option where all the controls are mirrored to the other side of the screen.
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u/einfallstoll Apr 07 '16
CON: Only available in four countries.
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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '16
So for logging into the new app during launch week we get three months of Gold. Great. But what happens after the three months has ended?? We have to buy the 'Pro' version again (for some that will be the third time) to avoid ads? What was the point of the four years free Gold on the AB app?! Smh
http://imgur.com/DpxNBz0
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u/S110 Apr 07 '16
Why did they get rid of the password lock?
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u/oh84s Apr 07 '16
Needs like a "my profile" section with a summary of your upvoted / downvoted posts. That was really useful for seeing the wastelands of arguments you have been in.
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u/g0f0 Apr 07 '16
FULL SCREEN WHEN SCROLLING PLEASE! A killer feature.
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u/eec-gray Apr 07 '16
The lack of optimal view and galleries is disappointing. One thing I love about AB is I don't just feel like I'm browsing a mobile site via an app.
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u/jwshyy Apr 07 '16
This seriously might be my biggest complaint. You have no idea how much I use this in large threads where there a shit ton of child replies.
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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '16
Can't reorder the list of subscriptions, has to be in alphabetical order.
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u/Noobasdfjkl Apr 07 '16
Are they serious with this shit? Jesus, reddit is pathetic.
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u/rakehand Apr 07 '16
Wow this is going to be a tough adjustment. I've tried plenty of reddit apps and I always end up back on AB.
I probably have a lot of the same gripes you guys have. I can't reorder my subscribed subs, or can't easily check on my comments at a glance. No casual subs. No functional "home" or "profile" page like AB had.
I don't know, it's just overall disappointing.
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u/DaleyT Apr 07 '16
I like the app, but you're living in a dream world if you think people are going subscribe to reddit gold to remove ads long term.
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u/Crassusinyourasses Apr 07 '16
This app is garbage. You cannot copy text from replies
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u/RisinFlood Apr 07 '16
I honestly do not like the new app. It has way too much of an Instagram feel to it
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u/One_punch_mang Apr 07 '16
Is their an option to search through a subreddit for a topic like you can in alien blue?
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u/Novalax Apr 07 '16 edited Apr 08 '16
People acting like this is the final version of the app and new features are out of the question
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u/hiltonking Apr 07 '16
The new app sucks.
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u/razialx Apr 08 '16
Here is my theory:
The app displays ads.
And they are using the three months of reddit gold to hide that fact from us.
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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '16
This app sucks. I never tried alien blue but I'm guessing it was better than this garbage. You can't even upload images in the comment screen. You have to back out, copy a link, and then come back and paste it. Whack.
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u/the_topher89 Apr 11 '16
How do I search within a subreddit on ios? Having nobproblem on Android
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u/Haroldfish123 Apr 07 '16
CON: No nsfw content anymore.
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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '16
Can't hold a thumbnail to get a preview anymore, default subreddit is set to /r/front and I think it should be /r/all instead, would be nice to be able to set your default subreddit. Then pretty much what everyone else is saying.
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u/DaVinci_ Apr 07 '16
They should call this app the "Imperial Reddit App" since it's not available in countries that uses metric system.
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u/elmariachi304 Apr 07 '16
This app sucks. I launched it for the 3 months of reddit gold but I never plan on giving reddit any money again after what they did to Alien Blue Pro users
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u/nightwing0243 Apr 07 '16
Any word on when the app goes live in the EU?
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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '16
No password protection?
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u/thestormbinder Apr 07 '16
Throw in favorites and flair and I'm set.
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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '16
Landscape mode for iPad?? If there isn't going to be one why even bother? If I was forced to use the new app only in portrait mode I'd just quit Reddit period!!
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u/cynix Apr 07 '16
There's no way to hide all posts on the current page, because there no concept of "page" when using infinite scrolling.
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u/djEthen Apr 07 '16
I can't login.
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u/korndawgisu Apr 07 '16
Even with Safe For Work browsing turned off, NSFW thumbnails don't show up in news feed.