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Slightly OT. Speaking of Reddit, I am genuinely curious, do developers of the Android app never test the app or something? I was nagged into installing the app (sorry, I am not as persistent as your typical HN user), but it is actually so much slower than the website, and the content usually just don't load altogether. To be clear, I am on very fast Internet.

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Reddit is the only service I know of that seems to want to sell you ads, but also goes out of your way to make your life much worse.

If you've got a good amount of bandwidth available you should try Sync. It's an unofficial app but it's built around the ability to prefetch posts and comments. It seems to batch requests in some way, so when you've got a good connection you can get quite a lot of stuff loaded for when your connection dips later (i.e. a train).

That said, there's still more waiting involved than with visiting HN but that's probably because Reddit is much more graphics focused.

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