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by paradox460 1099 days ago
They killed compact a few months ago, in light of recent events probably to drive people to the "official" apps
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Compact was perfect for me and its death really has curtailed my usage of Reddit
Glad you liked it. 13 years ago reddit had an absolutely atrocious mobile experience, and was unusable on my (then new) Motorola Droid (milestone). So it was mostly a labor of "what do I need to browse reddit".

KeyserSosa, reddit's GM at the time and now their CTO, was rather supportive of my development efforts; let me make the crappy little thing I was building an official part of reddit after a conversation on IRC