I have been with you from your creation now to your grave. You were never really the most popular Reddit app, but you were my Reddit app. I will miss you.
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Still using it for today as I want to use it till it’s last moment but tomorrow will be sad
Bacon reader forever
GOT IT :(
So many Reddit apps I’ve never even tried, and yet I feel sad seeing these kinds of posts.
It was great app. Many miles were scrolled…
I feel sad seeing all of these goodbye posts from these developers that have put so much work into these apps only to have Reddit just spit in their face and not even be willing to negotiate any type of agreement
Are any app developers other than Sync moving to Lemmy? I like that that one will be more of a new beginning than an end.
I really hope so. I haven’t heard of any other than sync. I know the Apollo dev is taking a break and doesn’t have any plans of developing an app right now but I do hope that changes. I can say though that the developers that are making apps for Lemmy right now are very impressive.
Check out https://wefwef.app, it’s an apollo-like web client for Lemmy that you can log in to and use like an app. Your browser should let you install it on your phone like an app (normally you click the menu icon and find the “Install” option but it depends on your browser.
Infinity for Reddit is being converted to Lemmy.
Is it? Last thing I heard is that they were switching it to subscription only in an effort to try and afford to continue.
Pretty sure I saw something about it…
BaconReader was one of the first Android apps I paid money for, IIRC. It was that good of an experience on mobile way back when.
Boost was my app of choice. As with others in the community, I launched the rocket (donated money) to say goodbye. It’s honestly weird and bittersweet, I really like Lemmy but I’m going to miss Boost for Reddit. Fuck u/spez.
I just saw that Boost for Lemmy was announced!
That’s great news! I thought that the dev for Boost wasn’t going to work on a Lemmy version, seeing this in the app store makes me feel a good deal better.
May it rest with dignity and some day be reborn for lemmy.
Baconreader’s final message
No such message from Sync For Reddit, just stopped working this morning (full page pop up advert still came up though).
That’s honestly kinda sad
RIP baconreader, I never understood your name but used you every day.
Old Reddit used to be obsessed with bacon. To be fair much of the internet was at that time.
A call sign you could use to identify a redditor in person was to ask “when does the narwhal bacon” with the response “it bacons at midnight”.
Hence where bacon reader derives its name from.
So there was a time where the most common phrase among redditors was “the narwhal bacons at midnight” and during this time redditors were concerned about non-redditors pretending to be redditors to seem cool.
It was less about trying to find posers, and more about trying to find fellows. If you’ve ever played a semi obscure game and then seen someone with a bumper sticker or decal of that game you’d get the picture.
That’s at the whole thing was very silly. Honestly the entirety of the internet at the time was much less serious and dour.
much less serious
EXCEPT when it came to grammar and spelling! Honestly, I miss that kind of pedantry from the old days.
I remember when instead of getting downvoted for having a slightly different opinion you’d get downvoted for the minorest of grammar/spelling mistakes.
Ugh seeing this message last time I opened the app made me so sad. Baconreader was the major way I used reddit for the past what, decade maybe? The devs really knocked it out the park, it was so full-featured and just such a wonderful user experience. I’ve been hoping they would make a baconreader for Lemmy but I don’t think that’ll happen. I’m using Jerboa and - no offense to the Jerboa devs because I know this is still an early product! - but it’s like downgrading from broadband to the Pony Express.
I’ll miss reddit but I have lemmy now. I actually think I’ll miss baconreader more!
I was having too many problems with Jerboa, so I installed Connect for Lemmy this morning and have been liking it so far. Might want to give it and others a test run to see what you like best.
Same, except I switched to Liftoff. It’s a little hard to find in the Google Play store, but the app itself is great so far!
Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll check it out.
I’m using Jerboa and - no offense to the Jerboa devs because I know this is still an early product! - but it’s like downgrading from broadband to the Pony Express
This is a very important point that people seem to gloss over here. The reddit app is crap, but the current Lemmy apps (and software) is very buggy as well. This is to be expected, but it will turn a lot of people off from switching over.
The big difference is how it is expected to evolve. Lemmy and associated apps will only get better over next months and years. Reddit will continue to get worse and the app more bloated.
I’ve just been using the mobile website
