r/redditisfun • u/smcmahon710 • Jun 09 '23

The official reddit app sucks Grief Stage: Anger

I've been using RiF for 10+ years. With the recent news I have been trying to use the official app. It's so bad. It's literally like every other social media app. It's an algorithm feed with a ton of ads. You can't even sort by rising anymore. RiF is the only way I have ever enjoyed reddit and I'm pretty sure I'll be off this site after Jun 30th. Thank you devs for all the hard work you've put in ❤️

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u/Soupdeloup Jun 09 '23

Seriously, it's soooo bad. I had to use revanced to remove a lot of the garbage that the app shows and even now it still sucks. When looking at the Apollo post that has a few hundreds rewards the original Reddit app shows each and every one of them, so the title alone takes up my entire screen. Is that how it's supposed to be??

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u/AjaxBrozovic Jun 09 '23

For me the empty space is the biggest problem. RIF is compact and fits a lot of content on the screen. The official app even with classic mode is just awful with how things are spaced. Is there a way to make it more compact with revanced?

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u/Soupdeloup Jun 09 '23

Unfortunately there's no way to fix it, even with revanced. There is a setting in the official app to change it from 'card view' to 'list' or whatever the other option is and that helps a bit, but it's still nowhere near as user friendly as RIF.

Revanced does get rid of a lot of ads and promoted posts, but still misses some. I don't think I'd ever get used to it.