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by wvenable 3724 days ago
Why not make AlienBlue the official reddit app? They bought it! This is a very strange course of action.

This is one of "Things You Should Never Do" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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robwilliams 3724 days ago
Well it was the official app before this one. Considering how good AB is I think there's some technical reason to redo the app. Who knows.
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kennywinker 3724 days ago
My guess: AlienBlue was developed with power users in mind and this new app was developed with showing people ads in mind.

A major re-design gives them the excuse to remove and never re-add many features and tune the app for a different type of user and a different type of interaction.

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robwilliams 3723 days ago
Inserting ads into the Alien Blue feed would have been easy. You may be right about the different target user, though.
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joshschreuder 3724 days ago
AB was developed by one person (who is still on the app team) - it's possible AB isn't suited to having a team work on it, or they want to follow new best practices (eg. Swift)
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