With the purchase of AlienBlue over a year ago, I had high expectations for an official Reddit app. Seeing how hyped Jase (the developer behind AlienBlue) was about this app, I was expecting a less buggy version of AB with more features. Instead, what we got was a reddit app with less features. Here are my main issues with it:
1. No moderator support. With AlienBlue, we could read all of the Mod Mail, and remove posts, With Reddit.app, I can read some of my mod mail (some message chains are missing), and I can't remove anything.
2. No Comment flairs
3. Can't see which posts I've read already
4. The in-app browser isn't as good as the older AlienBlue one, and doesn't have an optimized view for imgur/direct links
5. No casual/favorite subreddit groups
6. Most of the settings in AlienBlue are not in Reddit.app
7. No swiping gestures except for swiping from the left edge to go back.
Commenters in /r/AlienBlue found more issues with it than what I've found so far. While I have hope for the future of Reddit.app, I'll be sticking with AlienBlue for now.
1. No moderator support. With AlienBlue, we could read all of the Mod Mail, and remove posts, With Reddit.app, I can read some of my mod mail (some message chains are missing), and I can't remove anything.
2. No Comment flairs
3. Can't see which posts I've read already
4. The in-app browser isn't as good as the older AlienBlue one, and doesn't have an optimized view for imgur/direct links
5. No casual/favorite subreddit groups
6. Most of the settings in AlienBlue are not in Reddit.app
7. No swiping gestures except for swiping from the left edge to go back.
Commenters in /r/AlienBlue found more issues with it than what I've found so far. While I have hope for the future of Reddit.app, I'll be sticking with AlienBlue for now.