I tried it for a long time and it’s just clunky, advertisements are hidden everywhere between the posts and in the comments section, the general overview is cluttered and illogic, and it stutters while scrolling.

I use it since they cripple the NSFW access for 3rd party apps, and most of my front page are videos, it loads so.... slooww..... and tapping one video will bring you to this tiktok-like interface where if you swipe up it'll load the next video in that subreddit instead of the next post in my front page.

comparing that to Sync for Reddit that doesn't experience any stutter and loads the video blazing fast, the experience really feels like a downgrade...

there are also the little stuffs like less customizability for color schemes, hiding awards, comment padding, font sizes, font styles, etc.

Oh, it absolutely is that bad. I gave it a generous chance, I started using it since I signed up on Reddit and kept using it for a few months.

The sheer amount of inserted unwanted content, including but not limited to ads, and the fact that at the time I was using it, it lagged massively on phones that were not bleeding edge new, did it for me. I eventually switched to Sync and then Boost and it was a huge qol improvement.

Btw, this comment kinda feels like it's from a bot. I'm not accusing you of being a bot, but the "No one can tell why the app is so bad" part is sus, it was repeated by a lot of bots on Reddit, and it's certainly pretty easy to find people elaborating on the exact, specific details on why the official app sucks so hard.

Look, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with liking an app that many others don’t. But it is a bit naïve to think you’re not going to get a lot of people disliking your comment, also because of the way you phrased it. Many of us used third-party apps, and we’re not used to being bombarded with ads, we knew exactly which subs we liked and didn’t and really don’t appreciate getting five suggestions every day for some random subreddit, claiming we would love it. Then there is the use of personal data and the weird decisions with taking away chat histories and awards that people. I guess if most of us really liked the Reddit app, we wouldn’t be spending so much time here. At least for me, leaving reddit was not a decision I took on a whim, and I think many other lemmings will agree.

TLDR: the Reddit app really does suck. Glad to be here.

I tried it less than an hour ago (apologies to my fellow countrymen for adding another download to the statistic!) because they wouldn't let me open a video in my browser.

It was every bit as awful as people are saying. Just a mess of ads and unwanted functionality with desirable functionality missing or hard to find. Uninstalled and gave it 1 star.

You must be living under a rock

Honestly? Yes. I've tried to make it work twice, both times because of the chat feature. Couldn't stand it. Playing videos is 50/50, threw a few errors at me that I never experienced with TPAs, it's highly unintuitive specially with those huge ads taking up most of the space.

Yes. It's awful. It was so bad I stuck with a TPA and just used chat (if I had to) on browser on my pc.

Check the data permissions

It is that bad.

It's cluttered with ads, stutters, lags, is buggy, etc.

It's a mediocre user interface centered around showing ads to the user, with some content in between to justify it.

Lmao

I used it back a while ago. For me it was alright, except I couldn’t filter out keywords and phrases and subreddits. That was unacceptable.

I went looking for an app that would let me do that. Suddenly no more rage bait. I never looked back after Apollo. I wonder if the app has that basic function yet. I have no intention of finding out.

I saw how ad ridden it is. I could do a few ads but from what I’ve seen there are just too too many.

I used the Reddit official app and it wasn't that bad for me. The problem is when the CEO doesn't respect the community. Reddit is great because of the community. But recently, CEO is trying to go for business first, making many community feel largely ignored. I saw it as long as long as the business get in the community way, there wouldn't be that many engagement and good experience. I joined Lemmy because I was hoping they are kind to the community. It is my opinion and many others would have different view, this is my perspective and reason to join Lemmy. Reddit app is not bad but the community is not doing well.

the impact on battery life relative to other apps out of the box is pretty atrocious. Reddit was always the app draining the most or near the most battery regardless of whether I was using it a lot cause it phones home constantly. That is already enough of a problem but then add in the fact that you had sponsored posts ( Adverts ) made to look like real posts that were 1 in every 5 it kind of grates on you.

Then there are the issues around the inbuilt video player that was barely functional at times on mobile for the longest time, it seems to be better now but it used to bug out and not play items properly and constant buffer issues regardless of internet connection speed.

Those were my biggest gripes and using Lemmy with Liftoff it's very noticeable how much battery life I'm saving daily and no I don't have an old phone an iPhone 14 pro