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Awesome for the developer, totally deserving. Alien Blue is pretty unmatched IMO, and I've spent forever looking for anything even close to it for Android. Flow is the closest I've found, but it's not supported any more :( I'd love to see them port Alien Blue, but I don't think the UX would fit very well on Android unfortunately...

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Reddit Sync is a fantastic Reddit client for android. I prefer it to the actual website.

Ooh, that is nice. Definitely improved since I checked it out a couple of years back. I wish it had tap to collapse on comments though. Tap and hold is okay though.

When I originally switched to Android a few years ago I definitely had Alien Blue jealousy, but Reddit Sync has come a long way. Now I have Reddit Sync envy on my iPad. Plus, Alien Blue was so dominant that the competition on iOS was quite stagnant in comparison to Android, where there are several high-calibre clients.

you can tap on the bar extending from the poster's username to collapse the comment.

All that does for me is highlight the comment. Maybe it's broken on the L Preview?

Yah the only issue I ever had with Alien blue is the LONG update interval. Hopefully now bug fixes will come much faster.

True. Though hopefully Reddit will avoid making changes that break Alien Blue now that it's the official app, which should cut down on the bugs.

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