I have been with you from your creation now to your grave. You were never really the most popular Reddit app, but you were my Reddit app. I will miss you.
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BaconReader was my first Reddit app on Android all the way before there was even an official app. I remember one time the developer sent me some BaconReader stickers in the mail.
Just logged into my new Lemmy, after also being in the sweet sweet frying pan of 🥓 To see this as basically the first post on my new news feed does feel good to be honest. I hope the migration goes well for us all!
Welcome!!
I feel sad seeing all of these goodbye posts from these developers that have put so much work into these apps only to have Reddit just spit in their face and not even be willing to negotiate any type of agreement
Are any app developers other than Sync moving to Lemmy? I like that that one will be more of a new beginning than an end.
Infinity for Reddit is being converted to Lemmy.
Is it? Last thing I heard is that they were switching it to subscription only in an effort to try and afford to continue.
Pretty sure I saw something about it…
I feel bad for these devs. I’m sure they’ll be fine but some of them have been maintaining their apps for a decade plus. You get attached to your code after that long.
I tried almost all of the Reddit apps over the years but ended up with BR as I found it was the most polished. Thank you to the devs who put so much effort in, sorry to see it go.
In terms of sheer hours of use, buying the ad-free version of the app 10 or 11 years ago now was probably the best value purchase I’ve ever made. RIP BaconReader, it’s been a wonderful journey. :(
RIP baconreader, I never understood your name but used you every day.
Old Reddit used to be obsessed with bacon. To be fair much of the internet was at that time.
A call sign you could use to identify a redditor in person was to ask “when does the narwhal bacon” with the response “it bacons at midnight”.
Hence where bacon reader derives its name from.
So there was a time where the most common phrase among redditors was “the narwhal bacons at midnight” and during this time redditors were concerned about non-redditors pretending to be redditors to seem cool.
It was less about trying to find posers, and more about trying to find fellows. If you’ve ever played a semi obscure game and then seen someone with a bumper sticker or decal of that game you’d get the picture.
That’s at the whole thing was very silly. Honestly the entirety of the internet at the time was much less serious and dour.
much less serious
EXCEPT when it came to grammar and spelling! Honestly, I miss that kind of pedantry from the old days.
I remember when instead of getting downvoted for having a slightly different opinion you’d get downvoted for the minorest of grammar/spelling mistakes.
Woah I haven’t heard that in ages!
I thought it was to identify the people who didn’t go to the Reddit meet ups… Or was that something to do with waffles and carrots. I never got into the circle jerk side of Reddit
“Pretending to be redditors to seem cool” is a bizarre idea, and I say that as a ten year user of reddit
lol, I remember that time, bacon was everywhere like it was some new thing.
So many Reddit apps I’ve never even tried, and yet I feel sad seeing these kinds of posts.
I’m normally very paranoid about any"this is too much value for what they’re charging" (read free apps" as I know I’m the product, and I don’t like being the product, but bacon reader, however much money they made off of me, was worth every one of the 200 cents and however much$they made from my data.
Fuck Steve Huffman aka spez the jailbait moderator.
Ugh seeing this message last time I opened the app made me so sad. Baconreader was the major way I used reddit for the past what, decade maybe? The devs really knocked it out the park, it was so full-featured and just such a wonderful user experience. I’ve been hoping they would make a baconreader for Lemmy but I don’t think that’ll happen. I’m using Jerboa and - no offense to the Jerboa devs because I know this is still an early product! - but it’s like downgrading from broadband to the Pony Express.
I’ll miss reddit but I have lemmy now. I actually think I’ll miss baconreader more!
I’m using Jerboa and - no offense to the Jerboa devs because I know this is still an early product! - but it’s like downgrading from broadband to the Pony Express
This is a very important point that people seem to gloss over here. The reddit app is crap, but the current Lemmy apps (and software) is very buggy as well. This is to be expected, but it will turn a lot of people off from switching over.
The big difference is how it is expected to evolve. Lemmy and associated apps will only get better over next months and years. Reddit will continue to get worse and the app more bloated.
I was having too many problems with Jerboa, so I installed Connect for Lemmy this morning and have been liking it so far. Might want to give it and others a test run to see what you like best.
Same, except I switched to Liftoff. It’s a little hard to find in the Google Play store, but the app itself is great so far!
Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll check it out.
I’ve just been using the mobile website
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Also using Liftoff. It’s in early access and Android-only but it’s working very well and pleasant to use.
10 years… Thanks for everything. I’m sad it’s over, but taking time away from reddit has been a good thing for me. There is less noise here.
It was great app. Many miles were scrolled…
“Got it :(” :(
GOT IT :(
