I have been with you from your creation now to your grave. You were never really the most popular Reddit app, but you were my Reddit app. I will miss you.
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10 years… Thanks for everything. I’m sad it’s over, but taking time away from reddit has been a good thing for me. There is less noise here.
BaconReader was my first Reddit app on Android all the way before there was even an official app. I remember one time the developer sent me some BaconReader stickers in the mail.
Same! Now using Relay, but I still remember BaconReader. I wonder if kids nowadays even know the connection between bacon, reddit and narwhals.
Tell me, when does the narwhal bacon?
It died, so it can’t bacon anymore :(
That’s a deep cut.
I tried almost all of the Reddit apps over the years but ended up with BR as I found it was the most polished. Thank you to the devs who put so much effort in, sorry to see it go.
I feel sad seeing all of these goodbye posts from these developers that have put so much work into these apps only to have Reddit just spit in their face and not even be willing to negotiate any type of agreement
Are any app developers other than Sync moving to Lemmy? I like that that one will be more of a new beginning than an end.
I really hope so. I haven’t heard of any other than sync. I know the Apollo dev is taking a break and doesn’t have any plans of developing an app right now but I do hope that changes. I can say though that the developers that are making apps for Lemmy right now are very impressive.
Check out https://wefwef.app, it’s an apollo-like web client for Lemmy that you can log in to and use like an app. Your browser should let you install it on your phone like an app (normally you click the menu icon and find the “Install” option but it depends on your browser.
I’ve been using that one also! It’s very impressive for a web client. Pretty much been switching between Memmy and wefwef!
Infinity for Reddit is being converted to Lemmy.
Is it? Last thing I heard is that they were switching it to subscription only in an effort to try and afford to continue.
Pretty sure I saw something about it…
Hey, here’s a link to a list of lemmy apps for both Android and IOS https://kbin.social/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/103663/List-of-lemmy-apps
Thanks, very cool to see Slide is coming over as well
BR was the only way I’ve used reddit for the past 11 years. Sucks that it ended.
Time to actually uninstall. It’s been real. ☮️
Nearer my god to thee starts playing…
So many Reddit apps I’ve never even tried, and yet I feel sad seeing these kinds of posts.
I feel bad for these devs. I’m sure they’ll be fine but some of them have been maintaining their apps for a decade plus. You get attached to your code after that long.
Shit man, BaconReader was the first Reddit app I downloaded. I eventually settled on RiF but this is just sad.
Fuck spez.
fuck u/spez
Capitalism ruins everything around me
A constant movement of enshittification
“Got it :(” :(
In terms of sheer hours of use, buying the ad-free version of the app 10 or 11 years ago now was probably the best value purchase I’ve ever made. RIP BaconReader, it’s been a wonderful journey. :(
7 year Baconreader user with various different accounts. Sad to see it go. Maybe the devs can make a similar app for Lemmy. Currently using Liftoff on Android.
BaconReader was one of the first Android apps I paid money for, IIRC. It was that good of an experience on mobile way back when.
