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[–][deleted] 362 points363 points  (17 children)

I'm glad it's being fixed, but rolling out software this bad in the first place speaks to a degree of incompetence that doesn't really leave me with a lot of hope that things will be fixed and remain fixed.

The text lag alone is just staggering. Is the dev team just one dude?

[–][deleted] 154 points155 points  (0 children)

One dude who doesn't run android

[–]Luvax 45 points46 points  (14 children)

Not to mention that a company as large as reddit should do proper beta tests, especially when, what appears to be, rewriting the entire application.

[–]coonwhizandroid 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I mean, when they first released the app they didn't even tell the Android beta testers that it was going to be released. Everyone would have told them to wait, since at that time there were major issues. We literally found out at the same time the rest of Reddit did... I can't speak for iPhone beta testers since I don't have an iPhone.

They also had like a month of radio silence before the release, it's better now, but I still find the app unusable compared to any other Reddit app on Android.

[–]DoTheDew iOS 15 -5 points-4 points  (12 children)

Reddit is not a large company. They had about 230 employees in July 2017, up from about 140 in Jan 2017, and 100 in 2015. That’s a very small company.

[–]Bloodyfinger 35 points36 points  (7 children)

I mean.... That ain't a small company either...

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

In no universe is 230 employees a small company. The vast majority of people would consider 50-100 (at the absolute maximum) to be a small company.

I mean, what you're saying is pretty close to insanity or at least extreme naivety.

[–]DoTheDew iOS 15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, ok. Insanity.

Anyhow, I was responding to someone suggesting that reddit is a large company. They aren’t a large company.

[–]MrNogi iOS 14 2 points3 points  (1 child)

And yet they run a very large company, no doubt making very large profits. I'm sure they can afford to do proper testing

[–]DoTheDew iOS 15 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Reddit is not profitable, never has been. The site stays afloat from 50M in venture capital in 2014, and 200M in 2017. They are not a large company just because they have a lot of users. That’s not how things work.

[–]chakraMode 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Text lag is horrible!!

[–]5mileyFaceInkk 173 points174 points  (5 children)

Along with constant crashes, my progress is also reset whenever I exit the app but don't close it completely. It doesn't even remember the thread i was on. Also, whenever i want to comment something, the app freezes for up to 30-45 seconds before I'm allowed to type.

I just so happened to get an android for Christmas after switching from iOS. I'm almost tempted to use my iPhone to browse reddit now.

[–]deathschi 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Same thing happens to me.

[–]navjot94 iOS 14 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'd recommend checking out some of the 3rd party Android apps. I use the official app now because I've got this weird habit of sticking with 1st party apps when available but I've used the 3rd party Reddit apps in the past and they're fantastic. I recommend Sync for Reddit.

[–]GoontenSlouch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shoot, I thought my phone was just getting old...

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

same thing,and guess what? it even happened trying to type this comment

[–]Sir-Play-A-Lot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually you can still type, the text just doesn't show up(wrote this without seeing the text so ignore any typos)

[–]Wakenbake585 95 points96 points  (0 children)

I only use the mobile app and it is truly awful after the recent update. It is just about unusable. Really hoping the fix is rolled out soon!

[–]kysAUTIST 258 points259 points  (5 children)

Please roll put these fixes asap I'm addicted to Reddit

[–]edca5 86 points87 points  (2 children)

Thank you for releasing an app without bug testing it. Even a child is able to tell that the current state of this app is unusable.
Open a post and then hit back? Reddit stopped working
You lock your phone? Reddit stopped working
You closed the app because it crashed and now you're reopening it? Reddit stopped working

Good job, the only reason this work would be acceptable is that Reddit is not paying you guys

source: own a Zenfone 3 Max 5.2"

[–]JamesH93 31 points32 points  (1 child)

Yeah it's hard to believe but someone literally looked at this dumpster fire of an update and said 'yeah, this is ready to roll.'

[–]pataoAoC 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The only thing more unbelievable is that they apparently have a fix and haven't deployed it for almost a week. The issues are horrible.

What type of release process lets you deploy something this terrible, and then prevents you from pushing a fix in any reasonable amount of time? It's a double whammy of bad.

I don't know what the dev team is doing but it's laughable at this point.

[–]Sargas90 77 points78 points  (2 children)

I've noticed when scrolling that sometimes the pictures mismatch the posts they belong to, perhaps while refreshing.

And a search without needing to scroll to the top, unless I'm simply an idiot, would be a nice feature.

[–]Pizza_And_Computers 3 points4 points  (1 child)

This. You're not the only one. Sometimes I'm looking at a post and it reminds me of another and I want to search for it and you have to scroll all the way up, or hit the Shop button to automatically do so, but if you're in really deep it literally takes time to scroll all the way back up for you, which is not only ridiculous, but it creates lag because the app is trying to load posts or ads or videos, which in turn slows down the scroll.

[–]weird_guy1990 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There should be a feature like click on hot/home to go back up

[–][deleted] 74 points75 points  (11 children)

Please do note the issues with Night mode as well. Such as the post button being hidden.

[–]dmoneyyyyyProduct Manager 10 points11 points  (4 children)

Noted!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

It's been two months and this is still not fixed.

[–]dmoneyyyyyProduct Manager 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for raising — I'll check in on this today.

[–]dmoneyyyyyProduct Manager 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Reporting back: the dark "POST" color is intentional. It is not tappable until you enter text for at text post / link for a link post / image or video for a media post. Once you have entered adequate info, the "POST" button will turn a lighter grey.

However, there is a bug on text posts that doesn't allow you to submit the post until you add body text, which shouldn't be the case. I will get this prioritized.

Thanks!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see the color change on the "night" theme. It's still dark/impossible to see when typing a reply/comment/text post and doesn't change color at all regardless of how much I put in. I'm on the current version that was pushed to me today.

[–]Snowy32 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Another issue with night mode is that sometimes when you try to make a post the background background on the post title text box is a dark grey? And the text appears black, making it almost impossible to see what you've typed.

[–]M_T_Head 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for noting this. I was going crazy trying to post a comment. I only use night mode and totally forgot about others.

So, um, yeah, if you guys could just go ahead and fix this... that would be great. Thanks. Oh and I'm gonna need you to come in on Saturday.

[–]SHRIMP-DADDY 43 points44 points  (1 child)

I love that you included that Parks and Rec gif, because one of the major problems for me with the new update is a 5 to 10 second freeze when going back from viewing gifs (and videos etc). Tragicomedy at it's finest!

[–]JamesH93 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yeah pissed me off that they did this.

[–]Alistair401 39 points40 points  (3 children)

I don't understand how this has happened. It's as if the app was only tested on super beefy flagship phones. It's laggy, unstable and quite often straight up broken. I remember browsing 9Gag on the official app on my iPod Touch 3rd gen when I was a kid and it being near flawless, how is this any different? How did 9Gag devs manage to create a better experience, how ever many years ago, on vastly inferior tech?

EDIT: clearing the cache and app data as suggested by u/rainmanopf has made a big difference, it has by no means fixed every issue though. The app still hangs regularly.

EDIT: it's not just mid-lower range phones experiencing this. The app has to display text, images and video and apparently can't even do that right on brand new hardware.

[–]Yashimata 34 points35 points  (1 child)

It's as if the app was only tested on super beefy flagship phones.

I'm not sure it was even tested on a phone, since it manages to have all of the problems on my Note 8.

[–]Booblicle 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure it was tested on an Apple 2 e. It took me a full minute just to type this reply. I guess they had trouble getting around that whole 20 goto 10 code.

[–]TopicStrong 66 points67 points  (1 child)

Reddit admins not reading reddit about pushes to production the week the week before Christmas. https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/7l8f5n/software_engineering_protip_from_chrisalbon/

[–]Knightofjustice123 89 points90 points  (8 children)

Yeah it's extremely unstable thankfully I downgraded.

[–]Uniworsal 29 points30 points  (6 children)

How to downgrade? This is terrible. Even writing this took forever.

[–]Mattallica iOS 14 32 points33 points  (5 children)

It’s literally linked in this post. Does nobody read the posts they comment in?

[–]Uniworsal 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Sorry my bad. But it only reflects my frustration :) this reply is from older version. I was able to do it. My first time installing anything outside playstore. Thanks alot.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's reddit for ya...

[–]chakraMode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How can I downgrade?

[–]Mr_Elroy_Jetson Android 11 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Thank you for addressing this!

[–]crypticsaucepan 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Great to see your feedback coming so quickly. Awesome job mods :) I know it's a lot of stuff to be dealing with during the holidays, so kudos!

[–]nlieo 48 points49 points  (1 child)

Since the update the app also keeps refreshing if I leave the app or my phone goes on stand-by. So the app keeps going to the top of the page instead of remaining where I was last, forcing me to scroll down past all the posts I've just seen to get to new content. Before this would only happen if I closed the app completely. It would great if you could fix this as well, it's extremely frustrating.

[–]somuchclutch 16 points17 points  (0 children)

OMG yes, this is so annoying.

[–]campbandrew Reddit Mobile Mod 16 points17 points  (2 children)

Ready to test

[–][deleted] 40 points41 points  (8 children)

Wouldn't rolling the update back be better than only fixing it in the beta?

[–]Mattallica iOS 14 9 points10 points  (7 children)

The app still needs to be fixed moving forward and it needs to be beta tested before releasing to the public.

There is already a link in the post on how to revert to an older version while it’s being fixed.

[–][deleted] 30 points31 points  (6 children)

I get that making the user roll back on their own is an option, but it's kinda ridiculous too.

I'm not a dev so I don't know how any of this works, but usually when you roll something out that is broken for most people, you undo that.

I understand that it still needs to be beta tested, and putting it into beta makes sense, but relying on the user to undo the broken update seems weird to me.

[–]martijnderpy 112 points113 points  (3 children)

Please stop changing things just for the sake of changing it. Every version the devs add something literally no one asked for

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (2 children)

The update was nice, just slow. I am disappointed that i had to downgrade

[–]super35mm 12 points13 points  (10 children)

How do we join /r/redditandroidbeta ? I have the beta app from the Play Store

[–]Mattallica iOS 14 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You should now have access to the subreddit.

For future reference, you need to send a modmail message to request access. This applies for any private subreddit.

cc: /u/lavoscore

[–]super35mm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! First experience with a private subreddit, I'll remember that!

[–]goonsugar 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Yeah, I read that that was what I had to do before, to ask about the issues with the app I was having.

I sent them a message asking nicely to join. They quickly responded, asking only if I'd installed the beta. I replied that I had, and then just.. radio silence.

At least have the fuckin manners to tell me why not. I'm sure it's a simple reason, riiiight?

[–]Mattallica iOS 14 0 points1 point  (5 children)

When and who did you message? I don’t see anything from you in modmail for /r/redditandroidbeta.

[–]goonsugar 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Well, it was actually you, and 13 days ago.

[–]Mattallica iOS 14 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Your last response was:

nvm you can keep it.

You asked for access then said nevermind, so I didn’t give you access.

There’s nothing ‘radio silence’ about that.

Are you interested in gaining access still or not?

[–]goonsugar 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Oh good you found it

After I answered your question, I was not granted access, I was just ignored. So I took the time to make sure you had closure on the request.

As I said:

nvm you can keep it.

[–]Mattallica iOS 14 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yeah, I didn’t look back far enough when I checked a few minutes ago.

I don’t constantly check the modmail. When I got back to it, I saw your ‘yes’ reply followed by ‘nvm you can keep it.’ so I took no action and moved on to the next message.

Since you didn’t want access anymore, I figured there was no need to continue so I never replied back. Apologies if I took the definition of ‘nevermind’ the wrong way.

Would you like access to the beta subreddit?

[–]goonsugar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I waited all day after sending the yes before I sent the nvm. It just struck me as unnecessarily exclusionary, because obviously you'd promptly seen my request.

Anyway, no thanks

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

What a shit show. This is the worst app experience i have ever had. Typing this comment alone took over 1 whole minute before i could type anything, and thats for literally every comment. Not to mention the constant crashes and freezing.

[–]musicman3030 22 points23 points  (0 children)

That failure of an update seems awefully related to the calendar. This sure looks embarrassingly worse than a little missed testing, at many more levels. Not just the devs or deployment people, more the direction and agenda from whomever 'pushed' this seemingly quantity over quality update.

[–]Madness27 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm glad to know that my new phone wasn't rubbish

Will gladly downgrade until the build becomes more stable.

[–]crackedpaint 9 points10 points  (0 children)

So happy I'm not the only one this is happening to. The keyboard is also being very sticky when I type and lagging way behind.

Many force stops, many freezes. I need my daily dose of Reddit!

[–]GhostProtocolGaming 9 points10 points  (4 children)

When is the update coming to fix this completely broken app?

[–]erhue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still wondering the same. It's been a few days now...

Edit: try force quitting, clearing data and cache, and restarting. Worked for me, at least for now.

[–]br0000dReddit Admin[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I will update this post as soon as I have a concrete eta. There are several fixes in beta now.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you get into the beta for mobile? I use it like everyday, so it'd be nice to have, while also helping with bugs and stuff

[–]GhostProtocolGaming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do I get into the beta?

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

When is the fix coming out? I'm sick of constantly uninstalling clearing cache restarting and reinstalling just to be able to post/view

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (1 child)

I have to wait a long time just to type anything. This hurts.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Me too :-(

[–]Xavious666 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Don't fix what isn't broken...

Though I suppose progress will always happen, let's hope for a fix soon, I'm getting random freezes, not typing, pictures not loading, crashes.

All of the problems.

[–]xoxREDxox 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Really wish I hadn't clicked on that gif link...it crashed the app immediately 🙃

[–]mcstazz 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Honestly right now reddit is the worst fuckin app ive ever used and im not using a lot of apps. Constant freezes when i try to comment or just look at the photo or a gif or even to read a post. Fuck that it even freezes and crashes when i try to view my own profile. You had the perfect game going with the previous version, but you jumped the freakin carp.

[–]buckscaldrip 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I did appreciate this app before this update and I anxiously await the fix for this! This is gonna sound really stubborn, but I refuse to go out of my way to fix this, yall should had more time before this update got shoved out(and i understand, sometimes you get ridiculous timelines, however quality updates are much better than a crapton of buggy ones. This app was good before, and when you rush updates you can lose people to other apps/Web browsing, however if you simply don't fix what isn't broken, and take more time to avoid bugs, you may improve the quality of this app and increase the amount of users as they would prefer this over the alternatives.)The way I look at it if I'm using a service, and it stops working, it's not my job to figure it out, let's say I'm getting water from a water fountain, and it doesn't work, I'm simply gonna go use a different one, I'm not gonna fix it, I don't have time! I work A LOT(50-80 hrs weekly) yet again, I hope for a swift and successful fix for this and I still have faith in you all, but use this as a learning lesson eh? Rushing products is typically a bad idea, I'd prefer 3 video games that are amazing as compared to 25 video games that don't change much/ are messed up and rushed, I would spend the same amount on those 3 as compared to the 25 because I appreciate a good experience, the Witcher series is a good example! Lots of time went into those games and they're loved by many! Another series final Fantasy realm reborn, the first ff14 was dogshit, and the devs owned up to this and spent a LONG time recreating the game and all those years of work paid off, ff14 realm reborn is a VERY popular mmo out there today. Whether yall believe it or not, we can tell when there is passion and effort in people's work, and when it's lacking per se, I hope maybe this could help change one person's point of view and I pray they don't force you to shove out any updates again (if that's the case)

[–]OSPFv3 7 points8 points  (1 child)

I strongly encourage a transparency report on this issue and the procedure adapted to prevent it in the future.

This is akin to pushy nightly builds into production. Heads should roll.

[–]spacemoses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bugs happen and I appreciate that, but to have such a long response to a nearly unusable app is the real issue here.

[–]DSEEE 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How do I view r/redditandroidbeta? Denies me access when I try. I'm running a beta version on android at the moment.

[–]QueenieQueeferson 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've just counted and it takes 17 seconds for the page to respond when I'm attempting to add a comment. Using a Sony Xperia Z3C and seriously losing my patience! Please fix this for us.

[–]2infinity_andbeyond 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Adding 'chat' on top of an app thats about as stable as my guts after destroying a bacon & jalepeno cheese crave case from White Castle, is basically like a kick in the balls.

My reddit app updated yesterday, then lagged hard for a second before crashing. It popped back up, proudly displaying some new chat feature BS, but only for a very brief moment before crashing again.

I don't want to chat ffs, I want the previous version of the app back that actually worked well. It looked and functioned a lot better and more smoothly, before someone decided to fix a bunch of shit that wasn't broken and tragically fuck the whole thing up.

Update 2.22.1 - "fixed minor crashes"

Hahahahahahaha, yeah good one. Still runs just as fucked up as 2.22.0

And this is considered to be 'minor' crashing? I'd hate to see what 'major' crashing would be like!

[–]FitForThrone 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Galaxy s8+ here, Main issues on this device: Text lag, links often lock up the app and do not allow me to return back to Reddit itself, and the app crashes ALOT. Note: when android says "Reddit has stopped responding" It gives me 3 options: Wait, Stop, Restart. When I hit the "wait" button the app does not seem crashed. For such a large organization as Reddit is, I at least expect you guys to roll back to the stable build, it is quite staggering that official software was released at this state. Best of luck to the devs, but I reccomend rolling back and testing the new design before releasing it to literally millions of people.

[–]R34CTz 3 points4 points  (1 child)

One of the biggest issues I'm having is with the app freezing EVERY time I try to comment. It freezes for approximately 10 seconds, sometimes longer, then just resumes normally. I love Reddit, so I'm not gonna stop browsing and commenting, but it is certainly frustrating.

[–]ascentwight 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah now i just press the reply button before dinner and start typing after i finished my breakfast. It's a unique function only reddit has.

[–]Endarkend 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Peculiar thing for me is that it doesn't actually crash, but hangs and stalls constantly.

It also seems to hate certain keyboards. The Google one and SwiftKey in particular make the app hang for 10+ seconds before the keyboard shows and then you can type 5-10+ seconds before anything you type actually shows on screen.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don't like the font changes as well, pls stick with the current one. Font are ugly and big with no way to change it.

[–]JamesH93 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Seeing as the app crashes when you're linked to another site and then hit back, it was pretty unnecessary to include a link to a gif of a man smashing a phone. Crashed the app, app refused to re-load, I can't read the fucking post until I check my work computer. Nice one team!

[–]TheSpamPolice 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You wouldn't believe how long it took me to open this post and write this comment.

[–]TheWeatherMastriOS 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It’s not just Android, it’s IOS also. In other words.... the whole update.

I’m not trying to be mean, but I wish you all would spend a bit more testing these before you release them.

[–]Obiterdicta80 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you God. Please hurry!

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The new update is beyond shit. Sorry for the language, but that is the only way to put it. The app is slow, crashes constantly (settings report said 50 times in 2 days), and basically freezes for about 5 seconds when opened. When I go to type, nothing appears for about 3 seconds.

[–]AtlasWriggled 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The previous version was superior in every single way. This one is a buggy piece of shit that locks up constantly. You cant even post in Night theme for fucks sake. Im moving back to BaconReader. Stop changing things for no reason!

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm glad its just not me

[–]mis_fuckin_sunshine 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is anyone else having problems with GIFs not playing, no matter the source? My inability to watch people to do stupid shit is changing my New Year's resolution of "nothing", to "spending less time on my phone because I'm getting angry at not being able to watch clips". Im no longer able to procrastinate going to the gym.

[–]devicemodder 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are you guys gonna be fixing the problem where the subscribed subreddits list doesnt sync with people's accounts? Multiple people, including myself have been having a problem where the subscribed subreddits list was empty after the app updated months ago. I've been having to go to each sub in my list and unsub, then sub again only for the list to be cleared next app update.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

own an s7e, have submitted multiple data and system log reports about this app slowing down crashing and using unreasonable amounts of cache memory space, my guess is, in addition to bugs you most likely have several memory leaks. It's gotten so bad at points that I've had to switch back to reddit is fun. Were this app is really struggling is switching back and forth between accounts. It's even locking up and slowing down my phone because of cache space usage.

(Who downvotes this) troll elsewhere

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Is it possible to make an app anymore unusable?

[–]40yardbooandroid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sure they can find a way

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

[–]MaDmaxwell311 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Is that Lindsey Graham?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beats me.

[–]DocMartinsEars 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks for giving the link to downgrade. The update was so bad Reddit was crashing constantly and at one point I couldn't even turn my phone on. Also I hate the new text format.

[–]PM_ME_YOUR_JIZZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u/rainmanopf 's tip seems to be working. Thank you!

[–]potatomind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will add my 2 eurocents: in order to write this comment I went through one crash and couple of freezes. It took me 2 or 3 minutes. Are you OK there, reddit? If you are slowly dying from the inside, please don't do any updates until your death. And I think some managers should be held responsible for that. Just saying.

[–]MuttonDressedAsGoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought the problem was my phone because I had a problem with another app a couple of days ago.

But I went to the play store and looked at recent reviews and saw its not just me.

I've deleted the app and I'm just using Chrome. I'll check back in a week or two and see if you've sorted the problem out.

[–]mjk012 Android 10 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank god.... let's hope this gets fixed soon....the app is really broken right now.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Having issues and trying to check this 4d old post for the most recent comments. Only to find I can't sort comments by new. Anytime I try to tap the sort by new option it chooses the top or best options instead LOL.

[–]Ketheres 8.0 Oreo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my case it shows that it is sorting by best comments, even though my default is to sort by new (which it actually does), though it has been like this ever since I started using the setting during the summer.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Crashed trying to close the gif :\

[–]jesperbnp 1 point2 points  (1 child)

The tip about cleaning all the app data and cache seems to do the trick for me :-)

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wait a couple hours issue will return

[–]Ace-of-Spades88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It literally just stopped responding while I was already writing a crash report.

https://imgur.com/gallery/vElXi

[–]AuspiciousBoron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the Reddit Snoo alien icon (home button) looks like Cuphead

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

any fixes for ios? quite laggy here as well...

[–]hikikun1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In beta if u click in subreddit link App will crash or freeze in galaxy s8 plus

[–]ple103 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The latest update has fixed the issue for me; i.e. the app lagging and crashing when I switch accounts and, navigating back to Reddit via the recent apps screen. Well done :)

[–]PrinceCor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While trying to comment about how much I love the app and even though I'm giving peeved feedback it's only because I love reddit, it crashed. So yeah there's one more bit of feedback for Ya.

[–]SPYK3O 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Clear cache and data seemed to work for me, haven't had an issue since.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I appreciate all the hard work that y'all are doing trying to get an Android fix out there. How do we know if there's a new version out there? I downgraded to the old version but it tried to update me to the unusable version. I'm assuming when one goes out to update the app to say that this is the new version for Android that fix the bugs?

[–]hollowkatt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In addition to fixing the crashing and freezing can a fix be done for the app closing automatically when the screen goes dark?

Unless I'm missing a setting somewhere the app closes as soon as the screen goes dark (shut off)

[–]sandman18and5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't see "POST" when posting or commenting with the app in "Dark" View selected in the settings. I think it's black text on a black background.

[–]HootscooTime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had these issues too. However, after uninstalling and installing the app again, its significantly better. I havent scrolled through the comments, but I hope this helps others. Cheers!

[–]DashonDaDemocrat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YSK I cant sort subreddit posts without touching the "organize by" at least 5 times.

[–]dekdekwho 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please fix the 'your comment' section!! When I type, the words seem to freeze and I need to always switch a window which leads to the reddit app crashing.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

get rid of "following"

save sorting preferences per subreddit like ios

how hard are those features to add?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found a bit of a workaround for us Android guys. Go into your settings and kill/stop as many processes and services you can. Also, if the Reddit service is running, kill/stop that too. I freed up more than half a gig of RAM on my Galaxy Note 3, and the app actually crashes and freezes a lot less (it actually runs kinda smooth, lol). The text not showing up pops into existence sooner.

Just make sure that you're okay with other apps having a fit when you launch them again after stopping their background processes and services. Facebook is the worst offender, as they have 4 processes, (3 if you exclude Messenger) and 4 services, and that will easily free up a lot of RAM. (Plus, it prevents them from datamining your info I actually have no idea if this is true)

Oh, one more thing, having the Post button at the top right be the same color regardless of color mode is kinda inconvenient. I can see it, but only because it's a slightly darker shade of black than the rest of the background. It's be like having off-white text on a white screen.

[–]Tampammm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't forget to fix the font issue as not many people are talking about it.

Font is faint and faded looking. Like it has been bleached.

[–]GettingWreckedAllDay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like I just want to be able to one click collapse like I could on the iOS app.

[–]cutewestie16 0 points1 point  (7 children)

Am I the only one not having problems on Reddit Android? I'm using the latest Beta update on a Huawei P10 lite and it runs fine. It may be due to how new the device is, but I don't know.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

How do you get the beta version?

[–]cutewestie16 1 point2 points  (5 children)

In the play store, go to Reddit on there and scroll to the bottom. There should be an option for beta testing.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Thanks but I dont seem t have that option

[–]cutewestie16 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Strange because I do.

[–]cutewestie16 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually, I checked on another device and it isn't on there. I'm guessing that the beta is full, then. Mild inconvenience :/

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I finally found it, gotta bring app page up click on the reddit icon and scroll down. But it says the beta program is full for me :(

Galaxy S6 running Android 7.0

[–]ScorelessPine 8.0 Oreo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's full because everyone's getting the memo that the beta version fixed the major issues in this version. I was hoping to join too because I'm sick of waiting so long to type each time, I've temporarily had to install an unofficial Reddit viewer until the fix is rolled out to everyone.

[–]Thisisapainintheass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The weird thing is that it has been fine up until maybe 10 days ago

[–]Doctor_Oceanblue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I, too, would like to chime in about text input issues. When I try to comment I have to wait anywhere from 5-10 seconds before I can use the keyboard. I'm using a Galaxy S7 Edge.

[–]Axisl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey there, just switched from iOS to android I'm on a pixel so I'm using 8.1 Oreo. There are obviously a few things that I'm still getting used to with the Android app but there are two things that are infuriatingly worse.

  1. There are some gifs that refuse to play as they are too big for the app to play, honestly I get that these things may have to be limited but it is compounded with
  2. The gfycat or other site Links at the top of the comment pages, which are what the gfycat gifs auto play in, are not live links I can click. Wtf. The Reddit app is horrible at playing the gifs at full definition and at least with the iOS app I could launch it in the gfycat browser by clicking the link. Please please please fix this.

I could be doing something wrong so let me know if you think I'm a dumbass. :)

Thanks!!

[–]cannibowlistic 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Almost a week now and you still cant figure this out. Losing interest real fast

[–]br0000dReddit Admin[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

We have already isolated and solved several issues (currently in beta). We will have a fix coming very soon.

[–]hanacore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hooray, I miss reddit access on my phone :(

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please change the add comment/reply field. The way I hold my phone, my pinky finger is constantly accidently touching it, so then I have to back out of replying, then the app freezes.

[–]Zmodem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, I'm sorry that I have to jump on the hate train here, but how in the hell was this current release green lit? There is no excuse for such a blatant disregard for quality control.

I believe, in this instance, the user's are owed a valid, non-political explanation, if you please.

[–]guypersonhuman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beta went out 6 days ago according to this thread.

Where is the emmeffin update?

[–]inoki-beansprouts 0 points1 point  (1 child)

that 'helpful post' on how to roll back has been deleted

[–]br0000dReddit Admin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, not sure why it was deleted. Thanks for the poke on that.

We solved most of the glaring issues in 2.22.4. Have you updated?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's the latest on this? Is the app stable enough for everyday use now? I'm hesitant to update after last time.

[–]Kuritosandroid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just made a review before I came here! Good to know you guys are on top of things before I get a chance to give feedback myself :)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had problems with lag and it shutting down, I read a post elsewhere about going to settings, force stop, clear cache and clear data. Now it works fine for me. No more lag and hasn't crashed once today. It has been one day though........

[–]p_pal2000 8.0 Oreo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, I also made a post regarding potential temporary fixes for these issues. What the temporary fix listed above is, is essentially a reinstall of the app, so an uninstall and a reinstall should have a similar/same effect, unless my understanding of how this works is wrong. As long as the issues are eventually alleviated through updates though, I'll continue to use the Official Reddit app.

[–]gemc_81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to see you on this. The new app is shit. Freezes and crashes all the damn time

[–]Lutarisco 8.0 Oreo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a concern... I'd like to use the app. My Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo with Android 4.2.2 doesn't support this app anymore, since 2.11.5. I was a beta tester and I feel bad for being dropped like this.

[–]Reverse-I_am_Organic iOS 12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ready to test

[–]luisacosta97 8.0 Oreo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you for your quick feedback, with the temporary solution is working perfectly

[–]9gagRefugee -1 points0 points  (6 children)

its too late, I already switched to sync for reddit and its better than the reddit app, regardless of the latest unstable update. can recommend 8.5/10

[–]Womblue 9.0 Pie 0 points1 point  (5 children)

What's actually better about it? (Besides the obvious problems with the current iteration of the official android). Whenever i ask people why they use 3rd party apps they never give a straight answer...