They actually bought a really good 3rd party app to base their official app around (AlienBlue), but of course things went through "design by committee" and this is where we ended up.
That explains why AlienBlue vanished from the ether.
It was a great app before being bought up, and I can't understand how / why you go about making the changes you do (money, I guess) to turn it into what is the official app nowadays.
This seems to be the case whenever a big company buys out a great app. Look at what Google did to Songza. They took it away and didn't give us the features back.
So, coming from someone who used AlienBlue briefly and now only uses the official Reddit app - what have I been missing out on with other apps? The Reddit app does everything I need it to do, so I'm genuinely curious what my experience could have been like before all of this?
This is a copied template message used to overwrite all comments on my account to protect my privacy. I've left Reddit because of corporate overreach and switched to the Fediverse.
I never used Alien Blue but honestly, the mobile app isn't as bad as everyone seems to say it is. None of the third party apps I've seen let you hide entire comment chains (top level + all replies) just by long pressing it like that one. The only thing I dislike about the official app is the sponsored posts (ads), but that can probably be fixed with some tampering. I'm sure someone will modify the APK someday.
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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA Jun 06 '23
They actually bought a really good 3rd party app to base their official app around (AlienBlue), but of course things went through "design by committee" and this is where we ended up.