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Comment by acheron | Hacker News Reader

I definitely quit using it. Do people use the official app and watch the ads and drink verification cans and whatever?

Same; my 13 year old account is now dormant/dead.

If I have to use the official app to use the site, why use Reddit at all? I had a decade of RiF/Apollo perfection, taken away from me and all I'm offered is an official app that's not as good and covered with ads? Nope, still haven't gone back. It's been nice, I'm glad to be rid of it.

I def use Reddit a lot less than I used to, but I caved and installed the official app. But now I use it sparingly because it such a shitty experience.

To be honest I tried to go the federated universe route and I just could not get past the federated gates before I found a home. I tried to join a beehaw instance and got denied access for some reason. Felt like an orphan ever since, especially since google reddit seems to be the only way to get good answers out of Google. I hope it does get more user friendly as there are people of all expertise that may not even be able to get into a federated group.

I pay $4/mo for Narwhal 2 and it's pretty great. (I used to use the original Narwhal before the subscription pricing which they had to axe.)

Having paid for and enjoyed Narwhal and Apollo, I really hated the official app. After some digging, I found https://github.com/lo-cafe/winston and that's working for me. It's not simple - you have to generate your own Reddit app id and secret, be able to Xcode from source and have a valid Apple ID to install the IPA, but it's worth it to me to spite the enshittified app.

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