ShialacJoey for Reddit went down today
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.
What made it “objectively” the best reddit app?
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’m pretty sure Boost had this as well, a great feature!
Well then I’m looking forward for it to be ported to lemmy
MagnorThat 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 that comment’s parent comment.
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 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.
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