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Addressing the new video player(self.changelog)
TL;DR: The new video player has launched on iOS with a lot of bugs and mistakes that we're not proud...
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Way I see it, is that the reddit mobile app has become a user hostile app that only has one goal. When reddit started, it was a great place to connect people with common interests. Slowly but surely, reddit was expanding. It had to change its goals from servicing users, to servicing growth.
With this latest series of updates; the only goal I can see is finding ways to keep the user entranced in the app, and keep them from leaving. The more viral content the admins can pump into the screen of the user is another share and another possible user down the road.
At the expense of the user experience reddit has continued to grow. As this app has become more and more hostile throughout the years, I’ve deleted the app and moved to Apollo. The Apollo developer cares about the user experience and lets that gain users on it’s own merit.
TL;DR I’m so disappointed in the way that the reddit mobile app has developed, at the direction of management and developers, that it’s been deleted and replaced with Apollo, which feels like old reddit.
They should be ashamed
This change was also the push for me to move to Apollo. Much better experience. It wasn’t even the bugs from the new video player, it was the fact that it’s an obvious TicTok clone.
Probably won’t be long before Reddit goes after third party apps though. Honestly I’m surprised they allow Apollo to operate at all.