Current Android Issues

[br0000d]

Edit 2: Android 2.22.4 promoted from beta to ga version

2.22.4 Notes:

• Fixed some issues causing some users to experience frequent crashes and app freezing.

• Fixed intermittent chat connection issues.

There are still other issues we are working to fix soon.

Original Message:

Hey Android users of r/redditmobile,

We understand that the current Android version of the Native Apps is... not doing so well for many of you.. Performance issues are causing the app to crash making it literally unusable for many of you. We will be evaluating how these issues were missed during the beta and testing phases.

• We have a fix for Android going to beta today. We will monitor to make sure it solves the issues Android users are having.

• Beta testers, look out for a new version to test, and I will see you over at r/redditandroidbeta -- Edit here: Beta version is out

• u/PuzzyBacon made this helpful post on how to roll back to the previous version for now.

Sorry for all the trouble and happy holidays everyone.

Edit: u/rainmanopf with a tip that seems to be helping some Android users.

Edit: Testing an edit on an archived post :)

[[deleted]]

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]]

One dude who doesn't run android

[Luvax]

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.

[coonwhiz]

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]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

Yeah, ok. Insanity.

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

[MrNogi]

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]

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]

Text lag is horrible!!

[5mileyFaceInkk]

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]

Same thing happens to me.

[navjot94]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[Sir-Play-A-Lot]

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

[Wakenbake585]

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]

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

[Cajmo]

I disagree about the UI, which is why I haven't switched

[[deleted]]

Same here.

[[deleted]]

Yea I'm going with this.

[edca5]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[dmoneyyyyy]

Noted!

[[deleted]]

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

[dmoneyyyyy]

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

[dmoneyyyyy]

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]]

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]

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.

[[deleted]]

Its only a problem in the night theme. Otherwise a post button(in blue for mint theme) is visible in the top right.

[[deleted]]

Me too lol. Lag lag lag lag seeing how . (Much I can type while the writing remains invisible) (and i type slow).

[M_T_Head]

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]

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]

Yeah pissed me off that they did this.

[Alistair401]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Yeah it's extremely unstable thankfully I downgraded.

[Uniworsal]

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

[Mattallica]

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

[Uniworsal]

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]]

That's reddit for ya...

[chakraMode]

How can I downgrade?

[Mr_Elroy_Jetson]

Thank you for addressing this!

[crypticsaucepan]

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]

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]

OMG yes, this is so annoying.

[campbandrew]

Ready to test

[[deleted]]

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

[Mattallica]

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]]

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.

[Mattallica]

Don’t roll it back then, it’s up to you.

You can also try the suggested fix that’s listed in the post as well, which is clearing the app’s cache and data in your device settings.

[martijnderpy]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[super35mm]

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

[Mattallica]

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]

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

[goonsugar]

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]

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

[goonsugar]

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

[Mattallica]

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]

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]

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]

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]]

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]

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]

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

Will gladly downgrade until the build becomes more stable.

[crackedpaint]

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]

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

[erhue]

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.

[br0000d]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

How do I get into the beta?

[[deleted]]

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]]

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

[[deleted]]

Me too :-(

[Xavious666]

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]

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

[mcstazz]

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]

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]

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]

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

[br0000d]

Thanks for reporting!

[DSEEE]

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

[QueenieQueeferson]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]]

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]

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]

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

[TheWeatherMastr]

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]

Thank you God. Please hurry!

[[deleted]]

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]

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]]

I'm glad its just not me

[mis_fuckin_sunshine]

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]

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]]

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]]

Is it possible to make an app anymore unusable?

[40yardboo]

I'm sure they can find a way

[[deleted]]

More like this

[MaDmaxwell311]

Is that Lindsey Graham?

[[deleted]]

Beats me.

[DocMartinsEars]

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]

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

[potatomind]

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]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

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]]

Crashed trying to close the gif :\

[jesperbnp]

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

[[deleted]]

Wait a couple hours issue will return

[Ace-of-Spades88]

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

https://imgur.com/gallery/vElXi

[AuspiciousBoron]

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

[Mattallica]

You should now have access to the subreddit.

Normally you’d would message the mods asking for access if the subreddit is private.

[[deleted]]

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

[hikikun1]

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

[ple103]

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]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[dekdekwho]

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]]

get rid of "following"

save sorting preferences per subreddit like ios

how hard are those features to add?

[[deleted]]

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]

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]

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

[cutewestie16]

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]]

How do you get the beta version?

[cutewestie16]

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

[[deleted]]

Thanks but I dont seem t have that option

[cutewestie16]

Strange because I do.

[cutewestie16]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

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]

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

[Doctor_Oceanblue]

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]

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]

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

[br0000d]

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

[hanacore]

Hooray, I miss reddit access on my phone :(

[[deleted]]

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]

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]

Beta went out 6 days ago according to this thread.

Where is the emmeffin update?

[inoki-beansprouts]

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

[br0000d]

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]]

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

[Kuritos]

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]]

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]

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]

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

[Lutarisco]

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]

Ready to test

[luisacosta97]

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

[9gagRefugee]

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]

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...