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by politelemon 1110 days ago
There are many clients for Reddit but this one is my favourite as it's fast and snappy. It introduced experimental gestures which were highly intuitive which I've not seen anywhere else. Excellent focus on content, I'm going to miss it.

It's sad to see so many apps shutting down regardless of what Reddit decides to do post blackout. I suspect there's also an element of relief among these developers not having to spend so much of their time on this anymore.

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i paid for sync moons ago and have used it exclusively to browse reddit, even going so far as to resign myself to android to use it (and also to use Materialistic) because of how much i favor the experience, configurability, and UX -- it is infinitely better than any app i have tried. admittedly i might be an outlier as i have no interest in browsing on desktop and very much prefer to reddit on mobile.

this is a sad day for me as it likely means my reddit usage will drop to almost zero.

R. I. fucking P.

My reddit usage dropped to zero a few years ago and I can't say I miss it. I occasionally slap a "reddit" at the end of a very specific google search term but even for that it's lately been subpar. Hacker News on the other hand I read every day.
Same. Didn't ditch my Android until Apollo came out.
Same. I still remember the day it came out, and raving about it for months. The offline feature was such a game changer as starving college kid with a 2 hour commute and no data - IDK how I even survived without it.
I never used sync, but what are some of these experimental gestures?