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My biggest problem with the official Reddit app is the inefficient use of space. I've been using Reddit is Fun (RiF) for many years now and moving to the offic

My biggest problem with the official Reddit app is the inefficient use of space. I've been using Reddit is Fun (RiF) for many years now and moving to the official Reddit app feels like having desktop zoom permanently enabled. Aside: The recommendation feature is completely broken... By default it injects completely inappropriate content from seemingly random subreddits right in the middle of everything. Example (looking at the app right this second) I see posts from /r/AskReddit, /r/plumbing, and /r/linux_gaming then "similar to /r/other communities" (wasting vertical space) is a post from /r/PeopleFuckingDying titled, "sICk FuCkS INJecT cAt WiTH PEptO bisMal". So unless you turn off the "recommend other subreddits" setting (on by default, could've been a useful feature) you're going to get that, "Random bullshit, go!" stuff injected into your feed constantly every few pages of posts. It'd be fine if they just recommended the subreddit but they include the day's top post from that subreddit and if you have NSFW posts enabled you may need to regularly visit /r/EyeBleach

feoren 3y ago
To be fair, /r/PeopleFuckingDying is all about totally normal, innocent videos "subverted" by their insane captions. It will be things like a baby lightly falling over on a bed with the caption "cHilD FuCKiNg SMoTHERed AftER tERriBLE FalL". I was curious, so I watched that particular one, which is a cat harmlessly receiving an injection from a veterinarian, of a medicine that happens to look a bit like Pepto Bismol. This is kind of a Reddit thing; look at /r/MarijuanaEnthusaists for instance (it's about trees. Actual trees). You'd get the same thing with any app. But I agree that the Reddit app is awful.
- NekkoDroid 3y ago
  The thing with r/MarijuanaEnthusaists is: it swapped places with r/trees Kinda same thing with r/worldpolitics and r/anime_tiddies (just worldpolitics is now/was a lawless land where almost anything was posted, instead of just being about anime tiddies)

feoren 3y ago

To be fair, /r/PeopleFuckingDying is all about totally normal, innocent videos "subverted" by their insane captions. It will be things like a baby lightly falling over on a bed with the caption "cHilD FuCKiNg SMoTHERed AftER tERriBLE FalL". I was curious, so I watched that particular one, which is a cat harmlessly receiving an injection from a veterinarian, of a medicine that happens to look a bit like Pepto Bismol. This is kind of a Reddit thing; look at /r/MarijuanaEnthusaists for instance (it's about trees. Actual trees). You'd get the same thing with any app. But I agree that the Reddit app is awful.

NekkoDroid 3y ago
The thing with r/MarijuanaEnthusaists is: it swapped places with r/trees Kinda same thing with r/worldpolitics and r/anime_tiddies (just worldpolitics is now/was a lawless land where almost anything was posted, instead of just being about anime tiddies)