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Reddit’s only free iOS app icons are ugly now (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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tl;dr: They locked the original icon behind Reddit Premium.

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[–] ericisshort 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

These new ideas are exactly why they had to kill 3rd party apps. If they hadn’t, this sort of change would just push more people to adopt them.