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Reddit Acquires Alien Blue, the Most Popular Unofficial Reddit App

439 points by ajacksified 12y ago

spicyj 12y ago
> One thing to note: if you’ve already downloaded the app, you’ll need to download it again — a side effect of them transferring the app from Morrisey’s App Store developer account to reddit’s. I was under the impression that Apple allowed transferring apps between accounts without wiping out the history…
- Noted 12y ago
  They're also offering a free upgrade to the paid version for the first week, but you need to get it this week. From the blogpost on reddit "Current Pro users, please make sure to get the new Pro upgrade now (free for one week). Unfortunately, due to the limits of the app transfer system, we have no other way to verify, credit, or transfer your old Pro account."
- pat2man 12y ago
  They do.
- schneidmaster 12y ago
  One of the reddit admins said that it would have been prohibitively difficult because of something relating to ownership rights: https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2jd7wa/the_alien_has_landed/clamav4?context=1 https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2jd7wa/the_alien_has_...
  - ja27 12y ago
    There are a couple things that could prevent it. Did Alien Blue maybe use In-App Purchase subscriptions for Pro? https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/iTunesConnect_Guide/Chapters/TransferringAndDeletingApps.html https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Langua...
    - girvo 12y ago
      It did, yes.
      - eridius 12y ago
        Subscriptions? Surely not. It wouldn't make any sense to use an IAP Subscription for that. Surely it's just a normal non-consumable IAP.
        KnightHawk3 12y ago
        It was just a normal IAP. (I bought it)
- eridius 12y ago
  They do. I'm very confused as to why Reddit didn't just go through that process to transfer the app. It would have saved a lot of people a lot of trouble.
  - craigching 12y ago
    I'm a hobby iOS developer, could you provide a link explaining how you can do this? I seem to remember reading something about Apple enabling this at one time, but I don't remember the reference now.
    - eridius 12y ago
      I've never had to do it, but I know Apple has an official process for transferring apps, and I believe they've even made it easier to do these days than it used to be. Had I the need to do it, I'd probably go looking through the iTunes Connect documentation.
      - koko775 12y ago
        Doesn't apply to iCloud/IAP
        coob 12y ago
        IAP transfers fine - iCloud may be another matter.
    - megablast 12y ago
      Did it about 5 years ago, just had to contact apple, they contacted the developer, Boom! It was all done.
    - unepipe 12y ago
      there's a link that says "Transfer App".
britta 12y ago
I moderate a midsize subreddit where many of the 35k daily readers use Alien Blue, and this is a bit of a headache because Alien Blue makes it hard to find the subreddit sidebar, where we list important FAQs and rules. Our sticky post is dedicated to explaining how to find the sidebar in Alien Blue (http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/2ic349/how_to_see_the_useful_rjailbreak_sidebar_in_alien/ http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/2ic349/how_to_see...). I actually installed a bunch of other iOS Reddit apps to see if I could find one that supported sidebars better, so that I could officially recommend that app to my subreddit instead. The other ones didn't support sidebars at all though! What I want most is for Alien Blue's tiny arrow buttons that lead to subreddit sidebars - http://i.imgur.com/ygWOV91.png http://i.imgur.com/ygWOV91.png - to be detail disclosure buttons instead, with a tiny "i" (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/Controls.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006556-CH15-SW4 https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userex...). I believe that icon makes more sense and will help readers realize they should tap there for sidebar information.
- yarone 12y ago
  To your point: I didn't even know you could pull up the sidebar content on Alien Blue.
  - stouset 12y ago
    You can also view the sidebar by clicking on the blue dot in the top-right corner while browsing the subreddit.
    - chrisgd 12y ago
      I don't see it. I have message, settings, new post and gallery
      - wattson12 12y ago
        you can scroll that view sort of horizontally
rebelidealist 12y ago
Is Reddit going to make Jason Morrissey move to SF from Melbourne?
- deminature 12y ago
  Non-US employees are apparently not required to relocate: https://twitter.com/micheletitolo/status/522531272258621443 https://twitter.com/micheletitolo/status/522531272258621443
  - goatforce5 12y ago
    Australians are eligible for E3 visas which are relatively easy and quick to get. It might be more amusing to go for the EB1 "alien of exceptional ability" visa though.
    - mesozoic 12y ago
      Lol I'd put Alien of Exceptional Ability on my resume.
  - toomuchtodo 12y ago
    So you can keep your Reddit job by moving outside of the US vs moving to SF?
    - burkaman 12y ago
      I don't think that's really feasible, unless you have family in another country or something. It would be pretty tough to get a work visa so you can remotely work for a company back in the US.
      - jontas 12y ago
        I'm sure you are correct, but thinking about it from the perspective of the host country, it seems like allowing this might actually be in their best interests. They get the income/sales/real estate/etc taxes from the new resident, without the resident taking up a local job that a native might hold instead.
TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
Remember when Twitter bought one of the more popular iOS clients, and ever since, people have just known of it as Twitter for iOS? I think it'll just become Reddit for iOS. The default, official client. The one 90% use.
- macrael 12y ago
  Funny though that they didn't change the name to "Reddit"
  - TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
    Perhaps they will eventually.
Terpaholic 12y ago
You can upgrade to Alien Blue Pro for free this week: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alien-blue-reddit-official/id923187241?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alien-blue-reddit-official/i...
- pimlottc 12y ago
  Hmm, I can see it on computer but I can't seem to bring it up on my phone.
  - craigching 12y ago
    Yep, takes a bit to make it's way to the device from experience. Remember to check it tomorrow ;) And possibly the next day as well. EDIT: And I should mention, you could download it now and sync it to your device if you really wanted to.
    - pimlottc 12y ago
      Looks like it's not (back) in the US store yet.
    - jstan 12y ago
      Just open the link on your phone and it will open directly to the app in the itunes store.
- mu_killnine 12y ago
  I just bought ABP about two weeks ago. Ugh.
  - maccard 12y ago
    Guess you'll just have to live with the fact that you spent half a coffee on supporting an independent developer to create something you use every day. You monster.
3rd3 12y ago
They should buy the Reddit Enhancement Suite too.
- christiangenco 12y ago
  Then integrate it, with a user preference toggle for keyboard shortcuts. Same with HN and HackerNew[1]. 1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlndihpmbbgmbpjohilcphbfhddd?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...
  - icpmacdo 12y ago
    That looks very good but I may never be productive again if I could endlessly scroll HN.
- hanley 12y ago
  I'm surprised they haven't implemented many of the features that RES has. I certainly don't use RES to it's full extent, but I find several of the features crucial to my Reddit experience.
  - robszumski 12y ago
    I hope hope hope they come out with a feature to hide stuff you've already clicked on. I don't get why you'd still want to see something you've already clicked on. At least offer a toggle.
    - stingraycharles 12y ago
      I think that's too personal a preference to make the default, and people would get confused. Imagine someone wanting to show a friend a funny video he found on reddit, and now it's gone. They have already implemented something similar with the 'hide' button, which allows you to hide a story.
    - PChop 12y ago
      There's a very configurable script for fading seen/hovered/clicked links and it works on multiple sites including Reddit obviously and HN as well. This is more or less right up your alley: https://github.com/Farow/userscripts/blob/master/reddit-fade-seen-links.user.js https://github.com/Farow/userscripts/blob/master/reddit-fade...
epmatsw 12y ago
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...
- Nk26 12y ago
  Yah the only issue I ever had with Alien blue is the LONG update interval. Hopefully now bug fixes will come much faster.
  - epmatsw 12y ago
    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.
- rickymetz2 12y ago
  Reddit Sync is a fantastic Reddit client for android. I prefer it to the actual website.
  - epmatsw 12y ago
    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.
    - redacted 12y ago
      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.
    - bradyo 12y ago
mirsadm 12y ago
I use Alien Blue on my iPad Mini and it is the best Reddit app for iOS that I've tried. Oddly enough I find the Android Reddit Sync app to be quite a bit better and easier to use. I say oddly enough because it's probably the only category of apps where I've found the Android version to be better than the iOS.
- lockyc 12y ago
  "Reddit is fun" is one of the better Android Reddit apps
  - StavrosK 12y ago
    Also RedReader.
  - unicornporn 12y ago
    Yeah, nothing I've tried feels better than this app.
- StuieK 12y ago
  I helped write a comparison of the Android Reddit apps here (http://www.slant.co/topics/1157/~what-are-the-best-reddit-clients-for-android http://www.slant.co/topics/1157/~what-are-the-best-reddit-cl...)
- wnevets 12y ago
  I like reddit now on my nexus 5 and alien blue on the ipad
untog 12y ago
Reddit is following the Twitter path, then. I wonder if they'll end up blocking other third party clients some day.
- mercer 12y ago
  I don't think that's a given. It might be the case, but it's not like one 'bad' example is enough to assume so, or have fears about this.
mmahemoff 12y ago
Reddit launched their own first app just last month. I wonder if they'll be closing down AMA now that they've negotiated this deal. http://www.redditblog.com/2014/09/announcing-official-reddit-ama-app_2.html http://www.redditblog.com/2014/09/announcing-official-reddit...
- beefsack 12y ago
  It seems that their AMA app is targeted at non-Reddit users and will coexist with this new one.
  - ajacksified 12y ago
    Indeed, it has a completely different target. In fact, it was built as an experiment to see what could be built using reddit data without being Yet Another reddit Browser.
frewsxcv 12y ago
Any word on whether it will be open sourced? I'm satisfied with my current app I use with reddit https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader which is open source
- ajacksified 12y ago
  https://github.com/alienblue/alienblue https://github.com/alienblue/alienblue
  - aroman 12y ago
    ...hasn't been updated in over four years. It's effectively closed-source.
    - ajacksified 12y ago
      Oh, you're right, I didn't even look at the dates :x My hope's that it gets open sourced, but I haven't heard anything in either direction about it.
craigching 12y ago
Ugh! Ok, I shouldn't complain, but I originally chose the iAlien app only to run into the scam that that developer put on by claiming a takedown based on the name by Alien Blue (IIRC, I'll try and provide a source if someone requests it) requiring users to buy the new app. I was really happy with iAlien, but I wasn't going to pay the extortion for the "new" app. Only about 6 months ago I bought Alien Blue + Pro, now I have to do it again. It appears that if I get it this week I will probably be able to save $4, so that's good, but I feel a bit scammed by the iAlien developer that I don't trust some of these apps anymore. I do trust that reddit is a good thing, so I'm probably set from here on out. And, in the end, I know it's only $8, but I hate being scammed, it's the principle. Alien Blue is a good app so I'm happy for Jase the developer and I forget why I originally chose iAlien over Alien Blue now, but hopefully we get some good advancements in the mobile interface which is my primary means of accessing reddit. EDIT: Adding links to controversy here as well: http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/1wk2n3/the_ialien_developer_is_scamming_users_and/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/1wk2n3/the_ialien... http://www.reddit.com/r/ialien/comments/1wbtqe/ialien_has_been_removed_from_app_store_please/ http://www.reddit.com/r/ialien/comments/1wbtqe/ialien_has_be...
- JustinAiken 12y ago
  iAlien has nothing to do w/ Reddit, they just use the API...
  - craigching 12y ago
    Yes, I know that and that wasn't my point. And neither does Alien Blue for that matter. My point was that I didn't want to pay for iAlien's "new app" which was anything but a new app. I am happy to pay for new features, but there weren't any new features and the iAlien developer was claiming he had to re-submit the app (and require everyone to re-buy the Pro features) due to (IIRC) Alien Blue claiming naming issues which seemed pretty suspicious to me. And now I just went to the app store to check on iAlien and it appears to be available again as iAlien and has been updated. Maybe whatever the problem was was resolved and it wasn't actually a problem in the first place? I wish someone who knew what was going on could explain, would be enlightening ;) EDIT: Nope, there was definitely some controversy: http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/1wk2n3/the_ialien_developer_is_scamming_users_and/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/1wk2n3/the_ialien... http://www.reddit.com/r/ialien/comments/1wbtqe/ialien_has_been_removed_from_app_store_please/ http://www.reddit.com/r/ialien/comments/1wbtqe/ialien_has_be... Apparently some iAlien lovers with their head in the sand are harassing me here ;)
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benatkin 12y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html
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notastartup 12y ago
how much was it acquired for? Undisclosed figure of Reddit Gold.
bubble_boi 12y ago
They should buy http://www.bubblereader.com/ http://www.bubblereader.com/ too!
- throwawayornot 12y ago
  this is cool, thanks for sharing!
cjbarber 12y ago
Reddit is a vital product in my life. Necessary move by reddit. If someone was going to be able to compete with reddit, and succeed, Alien Blue had a very good shot. Cool to see reddit making moves since their new round of funding, too. Semi-related segue: Since this $50mm funding round happened, I've recommended to a couple people that they apply for jobs at reddit. [1] Reddit has maintained impressive growth since 2005. I'm expecting them to be doing very interesting things over the next 5-6+ years. [1]: http://www.breakoutlist.com/reddit/ http://www.breakoutlist.com/reddit/
- GuiA 12y ago
  Can you expound on the "vital product in your life" part? I go on reddit every once in a while to read a few silly posts, abd would like to understand how it is vital to some people.
  - mjmahone17 12y ago
    I follow a bunch of niche interest groups, such as r/nycbike which keep me up to date on major news that may affect my daily commute. Just from that subreddit, I've learned a few better routes to bike, been warned when the police are changing tactics, gotten some tips on winter biking in the city, and kept up to date on the latest injury and accident statistics.
  - trose 12y ago
    It's the new message board for many people. You can go join subreddits for any hobby you can think of. You can use subreddits to research new interests and meet others that share your interests. Once you get off the front page, there is a lot of great content.
  - craigching 12y ago
    > I go on reddit every once in a while to read a few silly posts I don't find reddit "silly" in the slightest, but it probably depends on the sub-reedits you follow. I'm following arduino, raspberry_pi, python, R, Prolog, MachineLearning, Clojure, board gaming, gamedesign ... you get the picture. I find the information posted to be extremely useful and illuminating, but it depends on the sub-reedits you follow. As an aside, I also follow /r/minecraft and my kids love to look at minecraft screenshots and imagine the things we could do in-game. This is probably my most invaluable use of reddit, identifying and commuting with my children :)
hiby007 12y ago
Congratulations to the developer.
MrBra 12y ago
Just a note to check if there are any like-minded people: Everytime I approach Reddit, I got a feeling of being overwhelmed by the interface complexity, to the point that a part of me wants to know more and finally get to use it, and another part, simply feels frustrated. The latter has always won so far, even after forcing me to create an account. It just doesn't click with me. And I don't want to read no freaking 101 guide, because a clearly done interface needs no guide. Anyone feels like that?
- burkaman 12y ago
  Is there a particular piece that you find confusing? I've never had any trouble, and it never really occurred to me that other people might. Upvote, downvote, click reply to reply to a comment. Scroll down to see more. You can pretty much ignore everything else if you want to.
  - MrBra 12y ago
    For first: all those categories at the top of the page: who creates them? Are they the most active or are just random or arbitrarily selected? I go to https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/ https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/ and I see I am automatically subscribed to some sub-reddits and I'm offered the chance to unsubscribe? Why!? When did I subscribe? I don't even have an acocount! What the hell are sub reddits anyway? Then I look to the right and I see: "multireddit of your subscription" ? (my language) Ok... I scroll down to half of the page, and among all the headers for news there is one in bold. Just one. It titles "A subreddit for rage comics and other memes with a girly slant." It has 97.597 subscribers. But the item just before it has 234.297 subscribers. And it's not bold. That was the only bold one in the page. Why. Let's pick a random subreddit (if they are what I think they are) let's click on https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/ Ok is this a subreddit? How do I know ? Does this gather pics from all the sub reddits, or it just that single place where you go posting pics? Is this some sort of chan-like area then? Why can't I find answers to all these questions just by looking at the screen!?? Ok, anyway I notice that now we have an "r" in the URL which stands for? Let's have a guess: Reddit. But it only appears in sub-reddits. Fine. !!!!!!!!!... Ok let's calm down and not be too picky here... Uhm.. let's see.. I might want to post a pic. I look to the right, there is a ridiculous amount of small sized lines of text about posting rules. Ok, well can't you just say "hey anything depicting violence, abuse, blablabla - same old stuff - is not allowed here?" Ok, let's leave it for later, let's just see what people is posting. ...I understand that I am on "popular" selection right now, let's go to "ALL". No wait, that is not a switch for selecting that. What is it then? I click it, I get the same thing, and I am not offered any option to see what I might alternatively get. Ok let's click one of those categories up above. Let's pick "AskScience". Ok new graphic. Am I still on Reddit? Yes. But.. there are different rules to the right? What the? ..Moderators? Is this a forum? And.. after it's going on like this for a while a voice starts screaming into my head: "WHY DOES IT NEED TO BE SO COMPLICATED ????" And I usually end up with the feeling that I am browsing a virtual giant mall which tries to make everyone happy at the same time. And then I leave.
aikah 12y ago
Congrats to Alien Blue,their app is great!
8ig8 12y ago
Here's Reddit's official announcement on their blog... http://www.redditblog.com/2014/10/the-alien-has-landed.html http://www.redditblog.com/2014/10/the-alien-has-landed.html ...and here's Jase's (the developer's) announcement on /r/alienblue... http://www.redditblog.com/2014/10/the-alien-has-landed.html http://www.redditblog.com/2014/10/the-alien-has-landed.html Android version in the works? http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2jd7wa/the_alien_has_landed/claloxv http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2jd7wa/the_alien_has_l... What about Windows phone? http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2jd7wa/the_alien_has_landed/clam0q4 http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2jd7wa/the_alien_has_l... iPad version? Do I pay for it? http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/2jdcao/alien_blue_241_ipad_is_now_available/clankir http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/2jdcao/alien_blue... How to transfer settings to new app. http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/2jdcao/alien_blue_241_ipad_is_now_available/clanvxp http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/2jdcao/alien_blue...
netcan 12y ago
I wonder if Reddit can, at this stage, have big hairy ambitions for what they might still become. Thinking back about 8 or 10 years when "social networks" and online communities were becoming something obviously substantial there were a lot of excited ideas about what they would become. Ning's idea of basically extending forums and creating lots of online communities seemed attractive. When they're first taking on online communities are exciting. But, they seem to age. It's almost like being in the same conversation forever. What can Reddit still accomplish?
- maxmwood 12y ago
  I don't believe Reddit will be the last big social news website but I don't expect them to accomplish much more. They seem afraid of making changes and losing users like what happened to Digg. It leaves the whole market open to whoever else can do a better job. I doubt anyone is going to leave seemingly overnight like Digg -> Reddit but if someone was to start small and grow.. there's a lot of room to accomplish better things. I'm working on something like this with a couple of others but it's too early to say whether we'd ever be a viable competitor. There's certainly a possibility though.
  - pjc50 12y ago
    The next challenge to solve is anti-abuse, and it's much harder than anti-spam.
    - maxmwood 12y ago
      Just curious, what do you mean by anti-abuse?
      - pjc50 12y ago
        Something similar to what Jeff Atwood meant by "civilised discourse": http://blog.codinghorror.com/civilized-discourse-construction-kit/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/civilized-discourse-constructio... There are problems both of the form of abuse within services, and use of services as an organising platform for abuse campaigns. Reddit is host to some brilliant stuff. Reddit is also host to some terrible stuff. It semi-deliberately makes no delineation between the two beyond a thin figleaf of "NSFW". Some of the stuff behind NSFW is merely porn, some is a useful safe space for sex discussions, and some is well into the "cannot unsee" category. The "randNSFW" button is rather dangerous. Users aren't bounded either, so you have a lot of people with obscene usernames commenting in otherwise sensible subreddits. And posters themselves encourage cross-pollination. The "creepshots" people eventually got banned, but the only thing you really can't post anywhere on reddit is child porn. Racism is widespread. Twitter is a brilliant platform for both entertainment and protests. However, it has very poor anti-abuse features, so users may be subjected to large volumes of abuse (Caroline Crialdo-Perez, for example) about which they can do little. Hacker news prefers to flag "controvertial" topics off the front page, which at least causes arguments to be starved of pageviews and die down. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8458865 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8458865
pknerd 12y ago
Great. I use Alient Blue day and night on iPad and without any doubt it's an awesome Reddit Client.
nitin_flanker 12y ago
Now Jase can make it even more awesome.
xasos 12y ago
Flow is a really good Android reader.
EricBart 12y ago
I'm probably in the minority, but on mobile I use i.reddit.com What's the future for that?
- JTon 12y ago
  I'm speculating, but there seems to be a trend among service providers to provide a native experience for the big 2 (android, iOS) and let the rest use their service over the web. So perhaps they will continue to support i.reddit.com for users outside of the big 2 ecosystem
- comex 12y ago
  I'm also probably in the minority, but I just use the desktop site in mobile Safari, despite being a heavy Reddit user. It's an information-dense design, and I can read the small text without a lot of zooming, so it's probably more efficient for me, or at least I never saw a reason to switch. I should test out Alien Blue, though.
smackfu 12y ago
Maybe they'll dial back some of the quirkyness. I use it, but some stuff that should be really easy is messy, like subscribing to reddits. And their iOS 8 update (which was the first update in forever) has all sorts of "unique" interface ideas.
- bitdestroyer 12y ago
  The diagonal post context menu "ribbon" is such an odd design choice to me. I suppose it's for using it left handed given the context toggle at the bottom, but still. Seems like something much simpler would also be much more usable.
- wmeredith 12y ago
  I agree whole heartedly. The Ribbon action interface is goofy as hell.
- lord_quas 12y ago
  The ribbon makes it really easy to use one handed on a 6+
resca79 12y ago
I love when a company acquires a small app or startup in general. Basically because it allows us to dream to build something that a big company can incorporate in some of its famous product or just it will become famous itself. After an acquisition like that, I ask to myself : Does Reddit have smart developers to build a mobile app like that? Why do they need to do an acquisition to get a good app? The questions seem trivial, Reddit has great developers, but looking forward the last acquisition by Apple( that never done before), I think that in the next future the company employees will be no single person, but startups.
- pradn 12y ago
  They actually also hired the guy who wrote this app.
skrowl 12y ago
Title misleading. "The most popular unofficial reddit app FOR iOS" (which is 1/5th as used as Android). Presumably there are more popular unofficial reddit apps out there when you start counting Android.
- tobylane 12y ago
  There are comment chains in random threads of default subs where Alien Blue and Reddit is Fun users announce their sides, and it is definitely overwhelmingly AB. It's about 95% those two.
PiracyIsAwesome 12y ago
Reddit is complete garbage , filled with heavy moderation from all sides , your mods , your admins , your mod bots , and the community of reddit , and finally the shadow bans designed to waste your time for a LOL. It's the absolute worst place to post anything you want to say. I don't know why people keep using it. Reddit also likes to spam top youtube videos with solicitation attempts to get people to go to reddit.
needle0 12y ago
I'm reminded of the time when Twitter bought Tweetie and its developer to make it its official iOS app. Sure hope it won't follow similar paths.
- bytecoin 12y ago
  What happened ?

439 points by ajacksified 12y ago

> One thing to note: if you’ve already downloaded the app, you’ll need to download it again — a side effect of them transferring the app from Morrisey’s App Store developer account to reddit’s. I was under the impression that Apple allowed transferring apps between accounts without wiping out the history…

Noted 12y ago
They're also offering a free upgrade to the paid version for the first week, but you need to get it this week. From the blogpost on reddit "Current Pro users, please make sure to get the new Pro upgrade now (free for one week). Unfortunately, due to the limits of the app transfer system, we have no other way to verify, credit, or transfer your old Pro account."
pat2man 12y ago
They do.
schneidmaster 12y ago
One of the reddit admins said that it would have been prohibitively difficult because of something relating to ownership rights: https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2jd7wa/the_alien_has_landed/clamav4?context=1 https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2jd7wa/the_alien_has_...
- ja27 12y ago
  There are a couple things that could prevent it. Did Alien Blue maybe use In-App Purchase subscriptions for Pro? https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/iTunesConnect_Guide/Chapters/TransferringAndDeletingApps.html https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Langua...
  - girvo 12y ago
    It did, yes.
    - eridius 12y ago
      Subscriptions? Surely not. It wouldn't make any sense to use an IAP Subscription for that. Surely it's just a normal non-consumable IAP.
      - KnightHawk3 12y ago
        It was just a normal IAP. (I bought it)
eridius 12y ago
They do. I'm very confused as to why Reddit didn't just go through that process to transfer the app. It would have saved a lot of people a lot of trouble.
- craigching 12y ago
  I'm a hobby iOS developer, could you provide a link explaining how you can do this? I seem to remember reading something about Apple enabling this at one time, but I don't remember the reference now.
  - eridius 12y ago
    I've never had to do it, but I know Apple has an official process for transferring apps, and I believe they've even made it easier to do these days than it used to be. Had I the need to do it, I'd probably go looking through the iTunes Connect documentation.
    - koko775 12y ago
      Doesn't apply to iCloud/IAP
      - coob 12y ago
        IAP transfers fine - iCloud may be another matter.
  - megablast 12y ago
    Did it about 5 years ago, just had to contact apple, they contacted the developer, Boom! It was all done.
  - unepipe 12y ago
    there's a link that says "Transfer App".

britta 12y ago

I moderate a midsize subreddit where many of the 35k daily readers use Alien Blue, and this is a bit of a headache because Alien Blue makes it hard to find the subreddit sidebar, where we list important FAQs and rules. Our sticky post is dedicated to explaining how to find the sidebar in Alien Blue (http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/2ic349/how_to_see_the_useful_rjailbreak_sidebar_in_alien/ http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/2ic349/how_to_see...). I actually installed a bunch of other iOS Reddit apps to see if I could find one that supported sidebars better, so that I could officially recommend that app to my subreddit instead. The other ones didn't support sidebars at all though! What I want most is for Alien Blue's tiny arrow buttons that lead to subreddit sidebars - http://i.imgur.com/ygWOV91.png http://i.imgur.com/ygWOV91.png - to be detail disclosure buttons instead, with a tiny "i" (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/Controls.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006556-CH15-SW4 https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userex...). I believe that icon makes more sense and will help readers realize they should tap there for sidebar information.

yarone 12y ago
To your point: I didn't even know you could pull up the sidebar content on Alien Blue.
- stouset 12y ago
  You can also view the sidebar by clicking on the blue dot in the top-right corner while browsing the subreddit.
  - chrisgd 12y ago
    I don't see it. I have message, settings, new post and gallery
    - wattson12 12y ago
      you can scroll that view sort of horizontally

rebelidealist 12y ago

Is Reddit going to make Jason Morrissey move to SF from Melbourne?

deminature 12y ago
Non-US employees are apparently not required to relocate: https://twitter.com/micheletitolo/status/522531272258621443 https://twitter.com/micheletitolo/status/522531272258621443
- goatforce5 12y ago
  Australians are eligible for E3 visas which are relatively easy and quick to get. It might be more amusing to go for the EB1 "alien of exceptional ability" visa though.
  - mesozoic 12y ago
    Lol I'd put Alien of Exceptional Ability on my resume.
- toomuchtodo 12y ago
  So you can keep your Reddit job by moving outside of the US vs moving to SF?
  - burkaman 12y ago
    I don't think that's really feasible, unless you have family in another country or something. It would be pretty tough to get a work visa so you can remotely work for a company back in the US.
    - jontas 12y ago
      I'm sure you are correct, but thinking about it from the perspective of the host country, it seems like allowing this might actually be in their best interests. They get the income/sales/real estate/etc taxes from the new resident, without the resident taking up a local job that a native might hold instead.

TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago

Remember when Twitter bought one of the more popular iOS clients, and ever since, people have just known of it as Twitter for iOS? I think it'll just become Reddit for iOS. The default, official client. The one 90% use.

macrael 12y ago
Funny though that they didn't change the name to "Reddit"
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
  Perhaps they will eventually.

Terpaholic 12y ago

You can upgrade to Alien Blue Pro for free this week: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alien-blue-reddit-official/id923187241?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alien-blue-reddit-official/i...

pimlottc 12y ago
Hmm, I can see it on computer but I can't seem to bring it up on my phone.
- craigching 12y ago
  Yep, takes a bit to make it's way to the device from experience. Remember to check it tomorrow ;) And possibly the next day as well. EDIT: And I should mention, you could download it now and sync it to your device if you really wanted to.
  - pimlottc 12y ago
    Looks like it's not (back) in the US store yet.
  - jstan 12y ago
    Just open the link on your phone and it will open directly to the app in the itunes store.
mu_killnine 12y ago
I just bought ABP about two weeks ago. Ugh.
- maccard 12y ago
  Guess you'll just have to live with the fact that you spent half a coffee on supporting an independent developer to create something you use every day. You monster.

3rd3 12y ago

They should buy the Reddit Enhancement Suite too.

christiangenco 12y ago
Then integrate it, with a user preference toggle for keyboard shortcuts. Same with HN and HackerNew[1]. 1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlndihpmbbgmbpjohilcphbfhddd?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...
- icpmacdo 12y ago
  That looks very good but I may never be productive again if I could endlessly scroll HN.
hanley 12y ago
I'm surprised they haven't implemented many of the features that RES has. I certainly don't use RES to it's full extent, but I find several of the features crucial to my Reddit experience.
- robszumski 12y ago
  I hope hope hope they come out with a feature to hide stuff you've already clicked on. I don't get why you'd still want to see something you've already clicked on. At least offer a toggle.
  - stingraycharles 12y ago
    I think that's too personal a preference to make the default, and people would get confused. Imagine someone wanting to show a friend a funny video he found on reddit, and now it's gone. They have already implemented something similar with the 'hide' button, which allows you to hide a story.
  - PChop 12y ago
    There's a very configurable script for fading seen/hovered/clicked links and it works on multiple sites including Reddit obviously and HN as well. This is more or less right up your alley: https://github.com/Farow/userscripts/blob/master/reddit-fade-seen-links.user.js https://github.com/Farow/userscripts/blob/master/reddit-fade...

epmatsw 12y ago

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...

Nk26 12y ago
Yah the only issue I ever had with Alien blue is the LONG update interval. Hopefully now bug fixes will come much faster.
- epmatsw 12y ago
  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.
rickymetz2 12y ago
Reddit Sync is a fantastic Reddit client for android. I prefer it to the actual website.
- epmatsw 12y ago
  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.
  - redacted 12y ago
    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.
  - bradyo 12y ago

mirsadm 12y ago

I use Alien Blue on my iPad Mini and it is the best Reddit app for iOS that I've tried. Oddly enough I find the Android Reddit Sync app to be quite a bit better and easier to use. I say oddly enough because it's probably the only category of apps where I've found the Android version to be better than the iOS.

lockyc 12y ago
"Reddit is fun" is one of the better Android Reddit apps
- StavrosK 12y ago
  Also RedReader.
- unicornporn 12y ago
  Yeah, nothing I've tried feels better than this app.
StuieK 12y ago
I helped write a comparison of the Android Reddit apps here (http://www.slant.co/topics/1157/~what-are-the-best-reddit-clients-for-android http://www.slant.co/topics/1157/~what-are-the-best-reddit-cl...)
wnevets 12y ago
I like reddit now on my nexus 5 and alien blue on the ipad

untog 12y ago

Reddit is following the Twitter path, then. I wonder if they'll end up blocking other third party clients some day.

mercer 12y ago
I don't think that's a given. It might be the case, but it's not like one 'bad' example is enough to assume so, or have fears about this.

mmahemoff 12y ago

Reddit launched their own first app just last month. I wonder if they'll be closing down AMA now that they've negotiated this deal. http://www.redditblog.com/2014/09/announcing-official-reddit-ama-app_2.html http://www.redditblog.com/2014/09/announcing-official-reddit...

beefsack 12y ago
It seems that their AMA app is targeted at non-Reddit users and will coexist with this new one.
- ajacksified 12y ago
  Indeed, it has a completely different target. In fact, it was built as an experiment to see what could be built using reddit data without being Yet Another reddit Browser.

frewsxcv 12y ago

Any word on whether it will be open sourced? I'm satisfied with my current app I use with reddit https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader which is open source

ajacksified 12y ago
https://github.com/alienblue/alienblue https://github.com/alienblue/alienblue
- aroman 12y ago
  ...hasn't been updated in over four years. It's effectively closed-source.
  - ajacksified 12y ago
    Oh, you're right, I didn't even look at the dates :x My hope's that it gets open sourced, but I haven't heard anything in either direction about it.

craigching 12y ago

Ugh! Ok, I shouldn't complain, but I originally chose the iAlien app only to run into the scam that that developer put on by claiming a takedown based on the name by Alien Blue (IIRC, I'll try and provide a source if someone requests it) requiring users to buy the new app. I was really happy with iAlien, but I wasn't going to pay the extortion for the "new" app. Only about 6 months ago I bought Alien Blue + Pro, now I have to do it again. It appears that if I get it this week I will probably be able to save $4, so that's good, but I feel a bit scammed by the iAlien developer that I don't trust some of these apps anymore. I do trust that reddit is a good thing, so I'm probably set from here on out. And, in the end, I know it's only $8, but I hate being scammed, it's the principle. Alien Blue is a good app so I'm happy for Jase the developer and I forget why I originally chose iAlien over Alien Blue now, but hopefully we get some good advancements in the mobile interface which is my primary means of accessing reddit. EDIT: Adding links to controversy here as well: http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/1wk2n3/the_ialien_developer_is_scamming_users_and/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/1wk2n3/the_ialien... http://www.reddit.com/r/ialien/comments/1wbtqe/ialien_has_been_removed_from_app_store_please/ http://www.reddit.com/r/ialien/comments/1wbtqe/ialien_has_be...

JustinAiken 12y ago
iAlien has nothing to do w/ Reddit, they just use the API...
- craigching 12y ago
  Yes, I know that and that wasn't my point. And neither does Alien Blue for that matter. My point was that I didn't want to pay for iAlien's "new app" which was anything but a new app. I am happy to pay for new features, but there weren't any new features and the iAlien developer was claiming he had to re-submit the app (and require everyone to re-buy the Pro features) due to (IIRC) Alien Blue claiming naming issues which seemed pretty suspicious to me. And now I just went to the app store to check on iAlien and it appears to be available again as iAlien and has been updated. Maybe whatever the problem was was resolved and it wasn't actually a problem in the first place? I wish someone who knew what was going on could explain, would be enlightening ;) EDIT: Nope, there was definitely some controversy: http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/1wk2n3/the_ialien_developer_is_scamming_users_and/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/1wk2n3/the_ialien... http://www.reddit.com/r/ialien/comments/1wbtqe/ialien_has_been_removed_from_app_store_please/ http://www.reddit.com/r/ialien/comments/1wbtqe/ialien_has_be... Apparently some iAlien lovers with their head in the sand are harassing me here ;)

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benatkin 12y ago

http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html

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notastartup 12y ago

how much was it acquired for? Undisclosed figure of Reddit Gold.

bubble_boi 12y ago

They should buy http://www.bubblereader.com/ http://www.bubblereader.com/ too!

throwawayornot 12y ago
this is cool, thanks for sharing!

cjbarber 12y ago

Reddit is a vital product in my life. Necessary move by reddit. If someone was going to be able to compete with reddit, and succeed, Alien Blue had a very good shot. Cool to see reddit making moves since their new round of funding, too. Semi-related segue: Since this $50mm funding round happened, I've recommended to a couple people that they apply for jobs at reddit. [1] Reddit has maintained impressive growth since 2005. I'm expecting them to be doing very interesting things over the next 5-6+ years. [1]: http://www.breakoutlist.com/reddit/ http://www.breakoutlist.com/reddit/

GuiA 12y ago
Can you expound on the "vital product in your life" part? I go on reddit every once in a while to read a few silly posts, abd would like to understand how it is vital to some people.
- mjmahone17 12y ago
  I follow a bunch of niche interest groups, such as r/nycbike which keep me up to date on major news that may affect my daily commute. Just from that subreddit, I've learned a few better routes to bike, been warned when the police are changing tactics, gotten some tips on winter biking in the city, and kept up to date on the latest injury and accident statistics.
- trose 12y ago
  It's the new message board for many people. You can go join subreddits for any hobby you can think of. You can use subreddits to research new interests and meet others that share your interests. Once you get off the front page, there is a lot of great content.
- craigching 12y ago
  > I go on reddit every once in a while to read a few silly posts I don't find reddit "silly" in the slightest, but it probably depends on the sub-reedits you follow. I'm following arduino, raspberry_pi, python, R, Prolog, MachineLearning, Clojure, board gaming, gamedesign ... you get the picture. I find the information posted to be extremely useful and illuminating, but it depends on the sub-reedits you follow. As an aside, I also follow /r/minecraft and my kids love to look at minecraft screenshots and imagine the things we could do in-game. This is probably my most invaluable use of reddit, identifying and commuting with my children :)

hiby007 12y ago

Congratulations to the developer.

MrBra 12y ago

Just a note to check if there are any like-minded people: Everytime I approach Reddit, I got a feeling of being overwhelmed by the interface complexity, to the point that a part of me wants to know more and finally get to use it, and another part, simply feels frustrated. The latter has always won so far, even after forcing me to create an account. It just doesn't click with me. And I don't want to read no freaking 101 guide, because a clearly done interface needs no guide. Anyone feels like that?

burkaman 12y ago
Is there a particular piece that you find confusing? I've never had any trouble, and it never really occurred to me that other people might. Upvote, downvote, click reply to reply to a comment. Scroll down to see more. You can pretty much ignore everything else if you want to.
- MrBra 12y ago
  For first: all those categories at the top of the page: who creates them? Are they the most active or are just random or arbitrarily selected? I go to https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/ https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/ and I see I am automatically subscribed to some sub-reddits and I'm offered the chance to unsubscribe? Why!? When did I subscribe? I don't even have an acocount! What the hell are sub reddits anyway? Then I look to the right and I see: "multireddit of your subscription" ? (my language) Ok... I scroll down to half of the page, and among all the headers for news there is one in bold. Just one. It titles "A subreddit for rage comics and other memes with a girly slant." It has 97.597 subscribers. But the item just before it has 234.297 subscribers. And it's not bold. That was the only bold one in the page. Why. Let's pick a random subreddit (if they are what I think they are) let's click on https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/ Ok is this a subreddit? How do I know ? Does this gather pics from all the sub reddits, or it just that single place where you go posting pics? Is this some sort of chan-like area then? Why can't I find answers to all these questions just by looking at the screen!?? Ok, anyway I notice that now we have an "r" in the URL which stands for? Let's have a guess: Reddit. But it only appears in sub-reddits. Fine. !!!!!!!!!... Ok let's calm down and not be too picky here... Uhm.. let's see.. I might want to post a pic. I look to the right, there is a ridiculous amount of small sized lines of text about posting rules. Ok, well can't you just say "hey anything depicting violence, abuse, blablabla - same old stuff - is not allowed here?" Ok, let's leave it for later, let's just see what people is posting. ...I understand that I am on "popular" selection right now, let's go to "ALL". No wait, that is not a switch for selecting that. What is it then? I click it, I get the same thing, and I am not offered any option to see what I might alternatively get. Ok let's click one of those categories up above. Let's pick "AskScience". Ok new graphic. Am I still on Reddit? Yes. But.. there are different rules to the right? What the? ..Moderators? Is this a forum? And.. after it's going on like this for a while a voice starts screaming into my head: "WHY DOES IT NEED TO BE SO COMPLICATED ????" And I usually end up with the feeling that I am browsing a virtual giant mall which tries to make everyone happy at the same time. And then I leave.

aikah 12y ago

Congrats to Alien Blue,their app is great!

8ig8 12y ago

Here's Reddit's official announcement on their blog... http://www.redditblog.com/2014/10/the-alien-has-landed.html http://www.redditblog.com/2014/10/the-alien-has-landed.html ...and here's Jase's (the developer's) announcement on /r/alienblue... http://www.redditblog.com/2014/10/the-alien-has-landed.html http://www.redditblog.com/2014/10/the-alien-has-landed.html Android version in the works? http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2jd7wa/the_alien_has_landed/claloxv http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2jd7wa/the_alien_has_l... What about Windows phone? http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2jd7wa/the_alien_has_landed/clam0q4 http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2jd7wa/the_alien_has_l... iPad version? Do I pay for it? http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/2jdcao/alien_blue_241_ipad_is_now_available/clankir http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/2jdcao/alien_blue... How to transfer settings to new app. http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/2jdcao/alien_blue_241_ipad_is_now_available/clanvxp http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/2jdcao/alien_blue...

netcan 12y ago

I wonder if Reddit can, at this stage, have big hairy ambitions for what they might still become. Thinking back about 8 or 10 years when "social networks" and online communities were becoming something obviously substantial there were a lot of excited ideas about what they would become. Ning's idea of basically extending forums and creating lots of online communities seemed attractive. When they're first taking on online communities are exciting. But, they seem to age. It's almost like being in the same conversation forever. What can Reddit still accomplish?

maxmwood 12y ago
I don't believe Reddit will be the last big social news website but I don't expect them to accomplish much more. They seem afraid of making changes and losing users like what happened to Digg. It leaves the whole market open to whoever else can do a better job. I doubt anyone is going to leave seemingly overnight like Digg -> Reddit but if someone was to start small and grow.. there's a lot of room to accomplish better things. I'm working on something like this with a couple of others but it's too early to say whether we'd ever be a viable competitor. There's certainly a possibility though.
- pjc50 12y ago
  The next challenge to solve is anti-abuse, and it's much harder than anti-spam.
  - maxmwood 12y ago
    Just curious, what do you mean by anti-abuse?
    - pjc50 12y ago
      Something similar to what Jeff Atwood meant by "civilised discourse": http://blog.codinghorror.com/civilized-discourse-construction-kit/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/civilized-discourse-constructio... There are problems both of the form of abuse within services, and use of services as an organising platform for abuse campaigns. Reddit is host to some brilliant stuff. Reddit is also host to some terrible stuff. It semi-deliberately makes no delineation between the two beyond a thin figleaf of "NSFW". Some of the stuff behind NSFW is merely porn, some is a useful safe space for sex discussions, and some is well into the "cannot unsee" category. The "randNSFW" button is rather dangerous. Users aren't bounded either, so you have a lot of people with obscene usernames commenting in otherwise sensible subreddits. And posters themselves encourage cross-pollination. The "creepshots" people eventually got banned, but the only thing you really can't post anywhere on reddit is child porn. Racism is widespread. Twitter is a brilliant platform for both entertainment and protests. However, it has very poor anti-abuse features, so users may be subjected to large volumes of abuse (Caroline Crialdo-Perez, for example) about which they can do little. Hacker news prefers to flag "controvertial" topics off the front page, which at least causes arguments to be starved of pageviews and die down. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8458865 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8458865

pknerd 12y ago

Great. I use Alient Blue day and night on iPad and without any doubt it's an awesome Reddit Client.

nitin_flanker 12y ago

Now Jase can make it even more awesome.

xasos 12y ago

Flow is a really good Android reader.

EricBart 12y ago

I'm probably in the minority, but on mobile I use i.reddit.com What's the future for that?

JTon 12y ago
I'm speculating, but there seems to be a trend among service providers to provide a native experience for the big 2 (android, iOS) and let the rest use their service over the web. So perhaps they will continue to support i.reddit.com for users outside of the big 2 ecosystem
comex 12y ago
I'm also probably in the minority, but I just use the desktop site in mobile Safari, despite being a heavy Reddit user. It's an information-dense design, and I can read the small text without a lot of zooming, so it's probably more efficient for me, or at least I never saw a reason to switch. I should test out Alien Blue, though.

smackfu 12y ago

Maybe they'll dial back some of the quirkyness. I use it, but some stuff that should be really easy is messy, like subscribing to reddits. And their iOS 8 update (which was the first update in forever) has all sorts of "unique" interface ideas.

bitdestroyer 12y ago
The diagonal post context menu "ribbon" is such an odd design choice to me. I suppose it's for using it left handed given the context toggle at the bottom, but still. Seems like something much simpler would also be much more usable.
wmeredith 12y ago
I agree whole heartedly. The Ribbon action interface is goofy as hell.
lord_quas 12y ago
The ribbon makes it really easy to use one handed on a 6+

resca79 12y ago

I love when a company acquires a small app or startup in general. Basically because it allows us to dream to build something that a big company can incorporate in some of its famous product or just it will become famous itself. After an acquisition like that, I ask to myself : Does Reddit have smart developers to build a mobile app like that? Why do they need to do an acquisition to get a good app? The questions seem trivial, Reddit has great developers, but looking forward the last acquisition by Apple( that never done before), I think that in the next future the company employees will be no single person, but startups.

pradn 12y ago
They actually also hired the guy who wrote this app.

skrowl 12y ago

Title misleading. "The most popular unofficial reddit app FOR iOS" (which is 1/5th as used as Android). Presumably there are more popular unofficial reddit apps out there when you start counting Android.

tobylane 12y ago
There are comment chains in random threads of default subs where Alien Blue and Reddit is Fun users announce their sides, and it is definitely overwhelmingly AB. It's about 95% those two.

PiracyIsAwesome 12y ago

Reddit is complete garbage , filled with heavy moderation from all sides , your mods , your admins , your mod bots , and the community of reddit , and finally the shadow bans designed to waste your time for a LOL. It's the absolute worst place to post anything you want to say. I don't know why people keep using it. Reddit also likes to spam top youtube videos with solicitation attempts to get people to go to reddit.

needle0 12y ago

I'm reminded of the time when Twitter bought Tweetie and its developer to make it its official iOS app. Sure hope it won't follow similar paths.

bytecoin 12y ago
What happened ?