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Comment by jombib

8 months ago

Better features, less ads, smoother experience and in the case of Apollo—the one I used—it just looked much better.

So apart from the ad blocker, that's ... features, smoother, better. What?

Edit: I'm not trying to be rude (it comes naturally). But you just explained "great" as "better, with more". I guess smooth might mean faster, which might be because it isn't doing ads and tracking. It seems to come back to third-party being the crucial difference, and "app" not mattering.

  • UI/UX is not that tricky. Caring about your users is the hard part usually.

    Third party clients could be webapps, too, of course.

    • Apps can bypass websecurity (CORS fetch), that allows for third party clients for example on video platforms using their internal APIs.

      I don't think the reddit clients work this way though.