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My own bad experience was when they rushly announced the death of third party apps. I tried to give the official app a try back then, used rif since 2012 before.
I couldn't even log in due to an error. The app was deleted minutes later and with the API-kill I moved to lemmy.
Same exact boat here. RIF was the shit. Damn shame about all that.
I joined the Fediverse after Reddit shut down the 3rd party apps, with it my beloved RIF. Tried out the official app and recoiled in disgust. SO. MANY. FUCKING. ADS. Been browsing Reddit with mobile Firefox and uBlock Origin ever since. Still had some issues with pages repeating themselves after the 5th page or so, but still sufficient for the occasional scroll.
Well, as you guess it: Mobile UI redesign. Pages take 10 seconds to load, shift 5 times as my poor poor ad blocker is forced to take up overtime. And the ads are terrible, I saw a user complaining about NSFW medical gore ads and they were asking how to disable them. The answer was simply: You can't opt out of that selection, buy premium.
At least I found out how to get RIF back into working order again, using the ReVanced Manager. Even completely without ads. Reddit will get no penny from me ever again. I'll keep browsing it and using their bandwidth, but never comment or vote anymore.
As a car mechanic, I frequent a lot of tech support subs and like helping people. I still do that, but in DMs. This way Reddit can't use my content to display more ads. I have no beef with the people using Reddit for help. My beef is solely with their management and u/spez specifically.
Obligatory fuck u/spez.
It was the first that popped up back in 2012, when I got my first smart phone. It stayed by my side till the end. RIP rif 🫡
I feel you there. I have since switched phones, but I didn't have the heart to delete the app from my last one after it stopped working. Left it on my home screen and everything, it just felt wrong to replace it.