• D2L@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I’m curious about when the 3rd party apps stop working. I think a whole mass of users were really lost as to what was happening and why. I was also surprised at the number of comments I saw of users who never used a 3rd party app. I felt bad for their experience. It’s like learning that someone doesn’t know what sunshine feels like on their skin, cause they’ve only seen it through glass block.

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      1 year ago

      It’s going to take at least a month to really see the effects. Once the apps go dark on June 30th, the number of mods leaving will rise, and the spam, garbage and low-effort crap they were filtering out will quickly start creeping back. But it’s going to be a gradual thing and a slow decline, not some big abrupt meltdown.

      Reddit’s one of the biggest and busiest websites on the planet, there’s a lot of inertia and it takes a while to even notice when something that big starts to list.

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      1 year ago

      I can’t believe anyone put up with the official app. There were rare moments when I would open it, but overall old.reddit.com on Firefox with an ad blocker was the way to go, or Baconreader Pro. The experience was a night and day difference. I didn’t get a lot of the inside jokes for a while about the ads.