I'm trying something.

It's a bit of a risk. 😬

https://www.reddit.com/r/OvercastApp/

@overcastfm oh I have to tell you, reddit has been real shitty about Overcast. I hope they're less shitty hearing from you directly, but I'm not sure I have much hope.
@overcastfm cross post the intro to the existing r/OvercastFM sub to make people aware of your official community.
@overcastfm I can't open that link because it says it might be adult content.
@ddr @overcastfm I got that, but I got in, once I logged in.
@overcastfm I see the therapy is working
@maxelamador Therapy was a prerequisite for me trying to engage with Reddit
@overcastfm What are you guys talking about? 😂
@nielsk @overcastfm yeah, same. I’m not installing their crappy app for that. Since they killed 3rd party clients I’m only using them in test only mode, without logging in or their app
@overcastfm I see reddit is just as user hostile as ever! I refuse to install their shitty app!
@vanitalo @overcastfm
Safari “Hide Distracting Items” works a treat:
@jasper89 @overcastfm Yeah that’s what I did too 😁
@vanitalo replace “www.reddit” with “old.reddit” and you’ll bypass their real shitty app takeover of the site
@stevenmccaw @vanitalo
And use ad blockers.
@freediverx after losing my very favorite Apollo I stopped using Reddit entirely for nearly a year. The only thing that’s made it tolerable again is Sink It for Reddit on the App Store

@stevenmccaw
I also miss Apollo. The killing of third party apps has dramatically reduced the time I spend on Reddit, given that it’s now unusable on mobile.

Sink it sounds interesting, but at a glance I don’t think it restores the old style display of threaded comments without truncating and pushing users to other threads.

@freediverx I’ll let you decide. Getting the color coded threads was everything I wanted back, using old.reddit urls
@stevenmccaw
Not bad. I just wish there were a way to optimize it for the mobile screen so I wouldn’t have to consitnuoously zoom in and out to read a thread.

@vanitalo @overcastfm

Reddit the company is trash. Reddit communities OTOH reflect the real world with the full range of humanity from great to terrible. Same goes for individuals, who can have good and bad moments.

The Reddit app is most certainly trash, and the fascist CEO killed off the brilliant and popular third party apps.

On the web, their website is also mostly trash, but one can invoke the dated but functional old style UI by prefacing the url with “old”. As in old.reddit.com.

@overcastfm For people having trouble seeing the page just replace “www” with “old”.
@overcastfm Welllllll, in all fairness you have not always been complimentary of the folks commenting on Reddit, but fresh starts and the high road and al that. Peace and good luck
@overcastfm Having a blog and getting e-mail is no longer working?

@overcastfm You might want to check your subreddit, there are a lot of confused people over there.

Too bad because lots of people are leaving Pocket Casts right now...