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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The best reddit viewer
I downloaded bacon reader while looking for a way to get Hot - Best - Top etc back on reddit home page. It’s the only reddit app I use now. Ever since reddit adjusted their main algorithm in July of 2022 my home page went from funny, fun, awesome to dominated by depressing, negative content. Now that I have found this app, the feed is fixed and back to the way it was. I’m so grateful! The pro version is the best few bucks you’ll ever spend.
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PLEASE FIX THE VIDEO PLAYER + unable to block accounts now
EDIT- I can’t block anyone anymore! Reddit is being overrun by bots so I’ve been blocking the ones I see. There doesn’t seems to be a limit to how many accounts you can block but it keeps telling me I can’t block anyone. REALLY FRUSTRATING! Restarting the app and logging out doesn’t help. I refuse to delete and redownload the app because I know it will remove my sub/feed filters and I don’t want to lose those.
The one big issue I have with this app is that videos will only play correctly until you go full screen. It sometimes pauses sometimes doesn’t, but the really annoying thing is that th video will stop at about a third in and then it skips back and forth rapidly. It doesn’t matter if you go out of the video and back, or restarting the app, it happens ALL THE TIME. As far as ads go, I don’t think I’ve had it bad like everyone else. I only get banner ads at the bottom. It would be nice if the ads were varied. Really sick of seeing the one Snapchat rip-off constantly. It should be mandatory for a confirmation to pop up when tapping on an ad. I’ve never clicked an ad deliberately, never will, and it’s infuriating that accidentally opening one does just that. Just give me a confirmation so it doesn’t open the stupid ad in my browser.
The one big issue I have with this app is that videos will only play correctly until you go full screen. It sometimes pauses sometimes doesn’t, but the really annoying thing is that th video will stop at about a third in and then it skips back and forth rapidly. It doesn’t matter if you go out of the video and back, or restarting the app, it happens ALL THE TIME. As far as ads go, I don’t think I’ve had it bad like everyone else. I only get banner ads at the bottom. It would be nice if the ads were varied. Really sick of seeing the one Snapchat rip-off constantly. It should be mandatory for a confirmation to pop up when tapping on an ad. I’ve never clicked an ad deliberately, never will, and it’s infuriating that accidentally opening one does just that. Just give me a confirmation so it doesn’t open the stupid ad in my browser.
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Love app but doesn’t work anymore
Same issue as others. Latest iOS and can’t open posts after 3-4x. Force closing sometimes
temporarily fixes but app basically unusable right now.
Giving it 5 stars bc it’s a great clean app and I’ll
Assume this is a temp bug but it has to get fixed
temporarily fixes but app basically unusable right now.
Giving it 5 stars bc it’s a great clean app and I’ll
Assume this is a temp bug but it has to get fixed
Latest Update Broke App
The latest update has broken the app. When scrolling, the app now, seemingly randomly, stops allowing you to click on a post to view comments. I can go through 4-5 posts and then the app suddenly no longer allows me to click into any posts. It’s like it doesn’t recognize I’m clicking the post, but it will still recognize if I click the picture thumbnail, if there is one.
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App has improved a lot over time a little more user experience stuff could help though
The first thing that bothers me is that I cannot scroll across other things I’m viewing like I can the front page or subreddits
For instance if I’m in r/news I can swipe away to see the next post
But for profiles, saved posts, upvoted posts, etc. you have to back in and out of each post to view it
For instance if I’m in r/news I can swipe away to see the next post
But for profiles, saved posts, upvoted posts, etc. you have to back in and out of each post to view it
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Better for “reading” subreddits than image/video based
Pretty much the title. If you use reddit more so for reading articles and especially reading comments, this app is more efficient and useful for you. It plays video just fine but just doesn’t have the effortless feel you’ll get on the reddit official app.
Veteran BaconReader user
Been using BaconReader for 7+ years. Literally the best Reddit out there. Better than the official Reddit app. The only downside is it does not support Reddit live. Very minor complaint for the Reddit app that is better than every other Reddit app out there. Download it instead of the official and you will not be disappointed
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Ads
You gotta do something about the ads. I’ve never had trouble before a few months ago but now anytime my finger is even slightly close to an ad, it opens up the internet then another page then the App Store. I’m not accidentally pressing it ever. I’m simply scrolling over it. It cut my bacon reader usage by like 80%. I’m not closing 2 apps and coming back to Bacon Reader every scroll and a half.
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New ads make the app unusable.
Just today, there are new ads added that take over the whole screen every time I scroll to the next story and/or click on a post. It makes the app unusable. Guess I’ll have to find another way to surf Reddit. Thanks for the memories.
Ads have subsided. Thanks for getting back to me.
Ads have subsided. Thanks for getting back to me.
Decent but buggy
I’ve had the same four unread message notifications all day, even though I have cleared out my message folder multiple times. This happens often-the notifications icon is totally unreliable. Also, the search function is improved, but still misses quite a bit of the time.
Laggy and locks up/restarts often these days.
Unfortunately the app seems to no longer be stable. Constant freezing and maybe it’ll catch the errors and allow you to continue but most times it stops working completely. It seemed to be related to the ads that get loaded in the story list when they change. The frequency seems to be often or maybe some timing issues are occurring. Regardless, the app has largely become unusable. Really hoping this gets fixed as I’ve really enjoyed the app for years. Will stick around a little longer, but without any improvements, I’ll have to remove this app....
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Response from developer
Hello CapcomBlue! Apologies for the delayed reply here! We have made a bunch of changes to block various bad ads in the past few weeks. Additionally, if the app is lagging, you might check r/baconreader subreddit to see if there is a solution there, or feel free to post in there if you are continuing to see issues!
Serious lag issues
App is slow to scroll and is delayed for every action. Scrolling and tapping is painful and basically unusable in current state. Opening a gif or video only loads sometimes now, I’ll occasionally open the same video three times or more before it plays.
Not sure if an update broke the app because it was fine a week ago but last few days have been horrible.
Not sure if an update broke the app because it was fine a week ago but last few days have been horrible.
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Wasted time writing a comment
UPDATE: Thanks for fixing this issue :)
I was writing a comment and accidentally pulled down on the screen slightly causing the writing window to disappear and the written comment to be lost. This has happened to me multiple times.
Please turn off the swipe down gesture when composing or writing a comment. Apple clearly knows and doesn’t have this “feature” when writing a review of this app.
I was writing a comment and accidentally pulled down on the screen slightly causing the writing window to disappear and the written comment to be lost. This has happened to me multiple times.
Please turn off the swipe down gesture when composing or writing a comment. Apple clearly knows and doesn’t have this “feature” when writing a review of this app.
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Used it for years but it has gone downhill
When I first used the app, the ads didn’t work. This was perfectly fine - the user interface was easy to use and navigate through. Back then I would have given this app 5 stars.
Recently, the ads have become more intrusive. They pop up on their own while scrolling and open up even when I don’t tap them. I’ve also been experiencing the app freezing up, crashing, or stalling for up to one minute.
Skip this app. The official Reddit app, while flawed, is still a better alternative to this one.
Recently, the ads have become more intrusive. They pop up on their own while scrolling and open up even when I don’t tap them. I’ve also been experiencing the app freezing up, crashing, or stalling for up to one minute.
Skip this app. The official Reddit app, while flawed, is still a better alternative to this one.
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almost perfect but one flaw makes it awful
I've been using this app forever - but I'm about to give up on it for something that ruins the experience numerous times . if you swipe left or right the screen changes to somewhere else and you lose wherever you were and whatever you were writing if you were writing.
being left handed and trying to scroll ask reddit. this becomes a frustrating nightmare.
all I want is the option to completely disable this swipe action, I don't want it at all anyway. after years of this I'm about ready to switch apps even though literally everything else about this app is as simple as I could ever hope for.
being left handed and trying to scroll ask reddit. this becomes a frustrating nightmare.
all I want is the option to completely disable this swipe action, I don't want it at all anyway. after years of this I'm about ready to switch apps even though literally everything else about this app is as simple as I could ever hope for.
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