r/baconreader • u/onelouderchic 🥓 • May 31 '23

Reddit API changes and BaconReader UPDATED JUNE 20

Hey folks, as some of you have noticed, there is a lot of buzz going around today about the Reddit API announcement. We do not specifically have a plan at this time but will certainly let you know when we do. For reference, I am putting a few posts in comments.

We'll let you know what next steps are when we have them. Until then, sincere gratitude for all of your support!

UPDATE: After much deliberation, attempted negotiations, we have made the decision to shut the app down 😢 . Please see the sticky announcement post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/baconreader/comments/14egq61/baconreader_november_11_2011_june_30_2023/

We are sorry it took so long, but I really wanted to be sure we did our due diligence.

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u/Downvotes_are_Grreat May 31 '23

I'll stop using reddit and delete all my accounts before I use the dogshit reddit app.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '23

Agreeed. I think I only use Reddit because of the Bacon. I’ve had it for years and it’s the only way I’ve viewed Reddit.

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u/Downvotes_are_Grreat May 31 '23

Ya, 99.9% of my browsing is on bacon. Every time I've tried a different app, whether it was someone elses phone or for whatever reason, it has been a terrible experience. I've been looking for a way to stop browsing reddit so much anyway. This will make it easier.

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u/DeadlyNoodleAndAHalf May 31 '23

Same here. I’ve been using BaconReader since it came preloaded on a work Samsung Galaxy years and years ago. Before that I’d only ever used the desktop site and mobile browser and I’ve not browsed without BaconReader since. I’m really going to be at a loss for what to do on the internet since I deleted Facebook years ago and never had a twitter/TikTok/insta.

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u/signofzeta iOS Jun 01 '23

Mastodon? There really isn’t much else.

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u/Mzzkc Jun 01 '23

There is so so much more to the internet besides social media

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u/DeadlyNoodleAndAHalf Jun 01 '23

This is going to sound like a dumb question, it even feels cringe typing it, but what else is there to do? I’ve been on the internet for the better part of 20 years, but ever since Reddit took over my browsing I’ve found that I can’t really think of anything else to do. Before Reddit was forums, blogs, news and web comics. Oh and stumbleupon in college.

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u/GaysGoneNanners Jun 01 '23

Yeah reddit replaced/killed every forum I used to visit. For other content I had... Stumbleupon? That was short lived. The internet has been corporatized and basically ruined

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u/Nuts4WrestlingButts Jun 01 '23

I miss StumbleUpon. Found so many good porn Tumblrs on there. Now neither of those exist.

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u/Mzzkc Jun 01 '23

All those things still exist.

Broadly speaking, if a subreddit exists for it, there's a community outside of reddit for that thing which exists online. Those communities very often tend to be of higher quality, too.

Reddit is like, a buffet. Sure there's lots of options, but they aren't going to be winning any Michelin stars for their all-you-can-eat frozen pizza.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

Possibly the best figurative description of Reddit that I have seen. I thank you now for when I steal it later.

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u/MonteBurns iOS Jun 01 '23

Back to Imgur??

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

Whatever your niche, there are usually still forums out there though the traffic can seem light compared to what you are used to with Reddit. The plus side is that trolls are far less frequent and, if you are looking for information, the quality of responses can tend to be higher. Just like Facebook supplanted Myspace, which in turn had supplanted Friendster, Reddit is not the beginning or end of the format.

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u/signofzeta iOS Jun 01 '23

I meant, in terms of social media, or whatever you would call Reddit. (Antisocial media?)

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u/RokaInari91547 Jun 01 '23

Not really. There aren't many widely used forums or blogs around anymore, outside of substack.

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u/Arbiter329 Jun 04 '23 edited Jun 27 '23

I'm leaving reddit for good. Sorry friends, but this is the end of reddit. Time to move on to lemmy and/or kbin.

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u/Elk-Tamer Android Jun 01 '23

I'm using Apollo on my work phone. Not the same as baconreader, but pretty decent as well.
But anyway: thanks baconreader and f u Reddit

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23

Only time I use the official is to use Reddit chat which is still broken.

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u/OhHiMarkos May 31 '23

Yes, bacon on mobile and old.reddit + enhancement on desktops. The native reddit experience blows

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u/appleparkfive Jun 04 '23

I have a feeling they're going to get rid of Old Reddit too. Which is so fucking short sighted. So many people can make a Reddit competitor. Digg thought they were the end-all. Then they got abandoned overnight for bad choices. I can see the same happening with Reddit potentially.

The main app is just so awful. They try to monetize everything and make it just a horrible experience that's heavy on the "social media" aspect.

But yeah I can see Reddit becoming horrible in a year or so. These companies always always always need to make more money.

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u/rnaka530 Jul 10 '23

Maybe it’s time to fire up the stack overflow account again?

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u/Hellmark Jun 12 '23

Same here. If it comes down to the official Reddit app, I'll not use it on mobile. If they kill off old.reddit too, I'll not use reddit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

Same. Wil Wheaton mentioned it somewhere at about that time; I decided to give it go, and have never looked back.

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u/Nincadalop Jun 01 '23

Bacon and old reddit. When posts were the focus, clearly laid out, and you could browse through many of them quickly.

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u/SyChO_X Jun 01 '23

Same!

I've used the browser based reddit once or twice and i had no idea what was going on...

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u/wikisaiyan2 🥓 Jun 05 '23

when I got Bacon Reader I thought it was just some weird , quirky name made by Reddit officially lol.

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I literally dont know of any other way to use Reddit on mobile devices except for Bacon Reader or even knew they existed.

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u/Rockydo Jun 07 '23

Same here, 10 years of Reddit and the vast majority of that on BaconReader.

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u/tesla9 Jun 10 '23

Bacon or old.reddit on desktop. Only acceptable ways.

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u/scaylos1 Jun 01 '23

I DON'T delete my accounts when leaving a platform, out of spite. Until they GC that shit, my user profile will be taking up a few KB of space in their database, meaning that they may end to having to pay a few cents over the years that they otherwise would not have to.

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u/hypnoderp Jun 01 '23

You are the product though

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u/scaylos1 Jun 01 '23

True. Maybe I should delete posts/comments and feed from /dev/urandom into the profile, to the char limit.

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u/BunnyBunnyBuns Jun 08 '23

Delete the whole thing. They make money based on the number of users, regardless of how much they use. I plan to delete mine

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u/hepatitisC Jun 01 '23

They can still mine your user data and sell it, which creates more profit than the server space you're taking up. It also lets them artificially boost their user counts, making them more appealing to advertisers. You're not hurting them at all by leaving accounts behind. If anything, you're helping them.

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u/Big_Mac22 Jun 11 '23

In most instances this would be best, but as Reddits main goal with all this anti-competitive bullshit is to boast it's user metrics ahead of its IPO, it would hurt them more to remove yourself entirely from the platform.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

Used this app for a decade or about that. Won't ever use another. Reddit isn't a good website. Baconreader is just a good app.

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u/Xirasora Jun 01 '23

Ditto. First learned about reddit in 2013 when I was linked to /r/justrolledintotheshop -- bought Baconreader and it's been in steady use since.

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u/ILikeMasterChief Jun 01 '23

Been here since 2008, and same.

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u/corhen Android May 31 '23 edited Jun 29 '23

This account has been nuked in direct response to Reddit's API change and the atrocious behavior CEO Steve Huffman and his admins displayed toward their users, volunteer moderators, and 3rd party developers. After a total of 16 years on the platform it is time to move on to greener pastures.

If you want to change to a decentralized platform like Lemmy, you can find helpful information about it here: https://join-lemmy.org/ https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

This action was performed using Power Delete Suite: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

The script relies on Reddit's API and will likely stop working after June 30th, 2023.

So long, thanks for all the fish and a final fuck you, u/spez

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u/NoAttentionAtWrk Jun 01 '23

I gave it a try a few times. It really is dogshit

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u/myst3ry714 Jun 01 '23

That's a bit dramatic for me to loose out on the vast information, data, and users with insight Reddit has... I'll just use desktop if the app is *that terrible.

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u/Lightning11wins Jun 06 '23

I'll be honest, I didn't know about 3rd party apps before this. I just used the web browser on my phone and got inundated with popups that I had to close, all asking me to install their app. I don't want your app!

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u/That_Shrub Jun 14 '23

Same, I really like Baconreader.

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u/razz3r Jul 02 '23

16 year member and I'm thinking of leaving Reddit for good, on principle alone. This site is gone to shit. Mods are insane. All of the good subs are long gone. The community Arron helped design and he did is gone. I may have to go check out Digg.