On a whim I decided to give the official app a try because a lot of people will be forced to use it, if they decide to stay on Reddit.
Holy hell, it’s just slow. Can’t scroll through a subreddit without annoying hitches and stutters. Comments aren’t any better also.
On the other hand, Sync is just fucking gorgeous and runs immensely better than the encumbered official app.
How can apps made by small teams or even a single person be better optimized than one supposedly made by a larger team with a larger development budget?
Not just ads, but trackers and whatever else they can use to wrangle data from your phone.
Yep. It’s like adobe acrobat reader.
You can use the official app. Slow and bloated.
You can use something like sumatra or foxit, they’re faster and takes up almost no diskspace.
IRC acrobat has trackers and telemetry included, allowing it to send data to adobe about where your mouse hovered, etc. etc.
Same for reddit. Reddit.com doesn’t consider users customers. We’re product. There to be mined for (personal) data.