The native Reddit app is a dumpster fire of an experience for almost all users. Discounting the absolutely horrible actions of Reddit’s CEO over the last month or two, this app has been unusable (in most people’s opinion) for years. Mods can’t use this app to keep Reddits communities safe, the UI shows how little they care about the users that make this app great, and they clearly don’t support or care about users who have disabilities. Reddit has clearly succumb to the pressure of corporate greed approaching their IPO as a potentially public company. Huffman has gone off the rails and falsely accused third party developers of actual crimes they never committed, and even doubled down about these allegations even with evidence disproving them. Reddit was once a great powerhouse and asset to the internet at large, but has swiftly deteriorated into a state that I cannot support at all. For your sake, the sake of individuals who have had their reputation tarnished unjustly, and the sake of those with disabilities, dont use this app. Or if possible, stop using Reddit entirely. Pathetic. Edit a few months down the road: Things are still predictably horrible. Videos don’t load, images glitch out when viewing full screen, and then general user experience has gone downhill since u/spez decided to pursuer money over a good platform. This app is done.

Within the past day or two there was an update to UI gestures when tapping into a post. Functionality before was that you could tap a post to pull up a full view of the image/video/media. For galleries, you could swipe left and right to either end and stay in the post. There was a button for the comments section. Swipe up went to related posts in the same subreddit/feed. Swipe down went back to the card view of the feed. This works fine. With the new change, when swiping left, you don’t hit a stop with galleries anymore. It will move on to the next recommended post. If that post is a gallery as well, you have to swipe through ALL the images in the gallery to get to the next recommended post. There’s no other way to continue seeing recommended posts. There’s also no way to stay confined within a single post/gallery anymore since there is no stop. Swipe up used to be next recommended post, replaced with comments. There was already a button for comments in at least 2-3 places I could think of for a post. Now, the new gestures make the UX more difficult instead of intuitive. They weren’t all that intuitive to begin with, but this makes it more redundant for comments, and harder for post discoverability. I’d love to see more customize-ability with these settings, or at least a way to revert.

I have repeatedly (and repeatedly, and repeatedly, and—) changed my settings so that I don’t get random notifications for things like recommended or trending posts. I only want notifications for things like replies to my own posts and comments, and changing the settings temporarily fixes this for me. However, without fail, after maybe a couple months it randomly resets so that all notifications are selected and I start getting a bunch I don’t want again, and have to go back in and deselect a bunch of them all over again. Based on the tons of complaints I’ve found all over Reddit’s own platform, this has been an issue for a very long time for many many people and there doesn’t seem to have ever been any attempt on Reddit’s behalf to solve it. Considering this is the only app I’ve ever had this problem with, it seems like at this point they either just really don’t care whether their app works right or they’re actively trying to annoy their user base with unwanted notifications on purpose. Honestly the app is fine otherwise, this really is the only reason I’m rating it one star because it’s such a stupid bug for an app this size to have, unless it really is on purpose but either way I get more annoyed each time it happens. This should be an easy fix guys, so dumb.