Not perfect, but I’ll miss you
I’ve been using this app for Reddit for almost 10 years. It’s my favorite, least clunky way to view the subs I like and although it had some issues over the years, I’m going to miss it so much come July, and I just cannot get into the garbage official reddit app so I will be ending my long time with Reddit when Bacon Reader dies. I have a small hope it will hold out but considering the app hasn’t had any updates for 8 months, I don’t see bacon reader surviving. Farewell!
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problems
it’s my favorite reddit app but i have a few problems with it
➖search function: having to go all the way to the top to search & losing my place in the process is annoying. i wish the search bar was in the side menu and the app remembered where i was. ➖general bugginess: if you have text in the search bar and scroll down, you can still see the little "x" that clears the text in the bar as you scroll. opening a linked post while you're on a post shifts the whole view down so the top of the new post is cut off. pictures take forever to load➖videos: mute button is strange. i press to unmute and it doesn't actually unmute until i open the video? and vice versa. there are kind of a lot of problems with this app but it's my favorite reddit client on ios because of the simplicity. i just wish there weren't so many bugs
➖search function: having to go all the way to the top to search & losing my place in the process is annoying. i wish the search bar was in the side menu and the app remembered where i was. ➖general bugginess: if you have text in the search bar and scroll down, you can still see the little "x" that clears the text in the bar as you scroll. opening a linked post while you're on a post shifts the whole view down so the top of the new post is cut off. pictures take forever to load➖videos: mute button is strange. i press to unmute and it doesn't actually unmute until i open the video? and vice versa. there are kind of a lot of problems with this app but it's my favorite reddit client on ios because of the simplicity. i just wish there weren't so many bugs
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Media player changed?
The media player for I.reddit and gifs and the like used to have the pause and skip ahead/back 10 seconds on the bottom where the bar was but now they’re in the middle of the screen and when they come up the rest of the screen darkens. Could you change it back to how it was before?
Latest update causing freezes and lags
This has been my fav Reddit reader for years, but for the past couple weeks I’ve been experiencing serious lagging and freezing issues, even just when scrolling thru text. Im not sure if it’s due to the update, but the timing seems to line up. I’ll give it a couple weeks to see if it improves before I find a new reddit client (maybe it’s just an ad causing some issues or something). Right now it is an extremely uncomfortable user experience.
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Avoid: Clunky and not user friendly for iPad
I use BaconReader on my phone and it’s not terrible. Got it on my iPad and it is awful. 80% of your screen is forced to have a random post opened while the small bar on the side is all you can use to browse posts. There are no options in the settings to remove this and no way to close a post so you get the first 2 words of posts in small boxes to the side while the rest of your screen is just one giant post from whatever is the top front page at the time. There needs to be an option to scroll through it like you would your phone and open posts only when you want to open them.
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