It was one of those few 3rd party Apps that still worked. Apparently dev was in talks with Reddit in obtaining Paid-API-Access, but now they cut off his API-Access mid talks without informing him
It still works fine if you moderate a subreddit. If you make yourself a private subreddit and mark it NSFW, you can both use the app and the API will let you see NSFW content.
Have you actually tried this? I used to moderate a sub of about 700 people. I don’t have access now. Perhaps it’s only if you moderate bigger subs?
Of course I’ve tried it, that’s how I know it works. I was just using it 5 minutes ago. I don’t think it’s going to matter if you used to moderate a subreddit, you need to currently moderate a subreddit. I literally moderate an empty sub I made in like the last two days, who I’m the only subscriber to.
That seems like a very obvious loophole. Suprised that works.
For me both boost and infinity works fine. Not even a mod on infinity account yet that works for some reason.
See, here’s why you don’t talk to Reddit about their paid API access. They’ll just fuck you over regardless.
“Never negotiate with your abuser.”
Abusers always isolate, isolate, isolate. That’s exactly what we’re seeing.
Exactly. Also, that whole “mods are landed gentry” shit reeked of “DARVO”
u/spez monetized (or at least is trying - rather badly - to monetize) people’s need for a community, albeit an online. It’s like the kettle calling the pot black.
I tried all the reddit apps I got aware of and Joey was just miles ahead of the pack.
There have been so many customization settings, custom themes, well-impoemented navigation features like skipping posts/comments with the volume keys of the phone etc.
I’m currently using 8 apps for Lemmy and none of them seems even close (yes, I know these are mostly alpha releases).
I really hope the joey dev creates a Lemmy client.
It’s wild that to me that the app dev made money from essentially being a web scrapper. No one should be makingoney off us posting memes lol 😂
He made money from people liking provided fun and easy access to reddit, additional functionality and customization options.
You have no idea about amount of work involved, have you?
Obviously he put “Scrape comments = true” and then took all of our money with his advanced programming skills /s
Yep, and here I am. Joey come to lemmy!!!
Gutted about this… thought was just a technical issue yesterday then got the message today directing me to Lemmy so here I am. Reddit is an asshat.
How hard it is to replace the backend while keeping the experience the same?
Depends on how the code was written, it can vary between “a few days of work” and “it’s easier to write a new one”
Depends on how the app is written, really. If it’s written using good abstractions and adhering to so-called SOLID, it should be fairly easy.
Not sure why they tried to hang on at all, it was always gonna go down this way.
Relay thinks they can make it work, when it was never designed to work.
Honestly, any app still trying to make it work is just a reddit simp, and have lost all my respect (not that it means much).
Man, Joey was my favorite one for sure
It was objectively the best reddit app. So many people missed out. Was a great ride. Here’s hoping he develops a similar app for this platform.
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What made it “objectively” the best reddit app?
It has insane customization.
The dev was very receptive to feature requests.
I can recall one such feature. Some use wanted to way in which he can change all occurres “fuck” in his feed to “duck”. Dev worked on it and made the feature available in just a few days. Off course it wasn’t limited to just these words. Any used could set “word swap” for any words that they wished
I don’t know if this made it the best app, but joey had this arrow up button on every comment. It will collapse all previous sibling comment so you can easily see the parent comments and find the context.
For example when you tap the up arrow on comment G this is what happens:
- A collapsed
- B
- C collapsed
- D
- E collapsed
- F collapsed
- G
As you can see it preserve the comment chain and quickly remind you of the context. This is extremely useful on a busy thread. I haven’t seen this feature on any other reddit apps. I wish lemmy apps could adopt this feature
i miss the arrows that let you skip to the next top level comment. it also did the immersive browsing thing really, really well. very missed app.
I’m pretty sure Boost had this as well, a great feature!
Well then I’m looking forward for it to be ported to lemmy
That was such a great feature.
Seems like the newest version of the Connect for Lemmy app has a version of this feature. If you tap a comment, an option comes up that says “< Parent”. Tapping it will automatically scroll you up to the very top parent comment. For example, doing that on my comment here would scroll you up to Saneless’s comment above that started this whole conversation.
I just knew this, that’s very useful! But sometimes I just want to go up a few comment chain, not to the very top
I hope they notice the popularity of this post and take it as a sign to make joey for Lemmy!
I loved Joey, definitely one of the best. Rip in peace buddy, Here hoping that the developer brings their talent to Lemmy.
Man Reddit is really all in on the “any PR is good PR”.
How fucking shitty. It just proves that everything spez said about negotiating with developers in good faith was bullshit.
You’re right but the leaked conversations between Reddit and RIF pretty much confirmed that for us months ago. Spez had zero intention of allowing 3rd party apps to exist. Next on the chopping block, old.reddit.com
pls no
There’s a Lemmy interface that looks like old Reddit!
Where?
The hero of the comments! I left there prematurely, because I know they’re going to chop old Reddit. this is so perfect, I can’t begin to thank you enough. You are so awesome thank you!!
You are a hero. Thank you for making me aware of this.
Thanks for letting us know! Here’s the code repository, for those wanting to self host it: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym
I showed this to my friend (an instance owner) and he immediately went “Let’s self host this”. Really looks great. If someone could make it work somehow with RES, then it would be a total replacement.
They’ll let old.reddit sit around for a little while longer because of the push back they got from API changes. But I suspect by this time next year it’ll be gone too and we’ll get another wave leaving reddit.
I really hope he’s able to migrate his app to Lemmy and continue to make a living. I would happily pay again.
Truly. Joey was so damn good. Honestly I would’ve paid 20 bucks monthly to keep using it.
I hope so too. I also paid for the original app. I signed up for updates on future apps from him, so it seems he’s thinking of something.
It’s a sad day for all of us.
RiF migrant here. Howdy, y’all! Pull up a chair.
I wonder when the shock of reddit being evil will ware off
“Don’t be Google.”
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