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What do people use for Reddit on mobile these days (other than the official app?)

I got logged out a couple of months ago and have been weaning myself off that toxic, stupid timesink but there are a couple of subs that are actually useful to me and that I can't quite quit yet.

On desktop I just force old reddit with a browser extension and have been OK so far, but mobile is unusable.

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Apollo on iOS.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575

Apollo is a great client. Far better than what Reddit themselves did when they took over Alien Blue

On Android I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laurenceda... with https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.laurencedawson.redd... which IMO is the best mobile reddit experience that I've ever had.

Adding to this one. I've been a paying user for years and I am fully satisfied. Sync is very actively developed, deeply customizable, and smartly designed.

I just stopped using Reddit. The new design, the hostile behaviour, it's just not worth the trouble. Occasionally I will end up on reddit when I Research something on Desktop, and then I have a browserextension which automatically redirects to old.reddit.com. That's as much work I'm willing to invest for this site now.

I agree. I stopped using Reddit when I saw that even if I avoided the new design, its culture of discussion was being formed by 95% of people being on the new site. The new interface has only exacerbated problems with memes replacing substantial discussion, and an Eternal September-like feeling because the sidebar (with its possible FAQ and links) is hidden, leading to newbies asking the same questions over and over.

Someone shared teddit.net few months before here and it works for me well in the browser.

on Android: rif is fun (formerly known as reddit is fun but they had to change the name)

I'm thinking I should just delete my account and it would show me garbage subreddits and the new UI (you can select the old UI if you're logged in), the new UI sucks so much that it would make me visit them less and less.

I can confirm this worked for me. The new UI is unbearably slow to use, and I strongly dislike the most popular subreddits.

I go back and forth between Apollo and https://i.reddit.com.

there's a Firefox extension that will autoredirect you to i.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/android/addon/compact-reddi...

(bit of a faff to get loaded on mobile but works fine once you've done that)

I quite like Infinity, available on F-Droid

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