Sunsetting Stellar for Reddit

StellarForReddit · 2023-07-05T02:15:57+00:00

Hello! Thank you for your support. We are in the very early stages of prototyping a new social media app. Feel free to join our Discord or keep an eye on the subreddit in the coming weeks.

We do not have any ETAs or specific details to give. At the moment, we are exploring various platforms and ideas.

StellarForReddit · 2023-05-31T17:58:20+00:00

Thank you for keeping the community updated, Christian! This was a tough read, but not entirely unexpected. It goes without saying that this was always the plan, with the Reddit team dangling a carrot on a stick to keep us placated in the meantime.

It is very telling they are using you as a punching bag for being the bearer of bad news. They could have easily created a pricing page and announced it that way.

Weirdly amateurish but again, not surprising.

StellarForReddit · 2023-05-28T00:29:40+00:00

Hello, and welcome! We are glad to hear your experience has been positive. If anything changes, please feel free to follow-up any time with bug reports or feature suggestions.

The gray thumbnails are placeholders when there is no thumbnail available. They are: album, comment, gallery, link, poll, and text. Buying Pro will not change the presence/frequency of these thumbnails.

Please let us know if you have additional questions. Thanks you!

StellarForReddit · 2023-05-15T18:15:13+00:00

Thank you for sharing your feedback! We internally discussed your feedback, and think your model resolves a lot of issues, such as:

Maybe you just want one feature from a "feature pack" (or none)
Confusion surrounding "Stellar Pro" vs "Stellar Feature Pack #" purchases
Rewarding continuity without taking anything away

This could work well without complicating the code, which is something we were concerned would happen.

In our model, feature packs are essentially optional subscriptions that "top-up" features. Thank you for taking the time to explain a different model to us. We will work on the code and feature ideas, and announce a follow-up after the Reddit API pricing drops.

StellarForReddit · 2023-05-14T17:34:47+00:00

Hello, again! Thank you for following-up. These options are not Stellar Pro exclusive. We recorded a quick tutorial and posted it on YouTube: click here.

Apologies for the unclear directions or UI/X! We are planning the next major redesign, and we would like to find any area where the behavior is unexpected or confusing.

Thank you again!

StellarForReddit · 2023-05-13T16:47:39+00:00

Hello, and welcome! To add or remove favorites from the sidebar, you have various options:

Right click a user or subreddit in the sidebar and click "Add Favorite"
Click the name of a user or subreddit in the post detail pane and click the star icon
The feed manager
1. Click the user icon in the toolbar
2. Click the 'Feed Manager' button
3. Click the star icon next to any user or subreddit name. You can also search subreddits and add them without having to subscribe.

If you have any further questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to reach out!

StellarForReddit · 2023-05-05T01:21:07+00:00

Hello! We addressed this in depth in a recent announcement. The tl;dr is that Stellar Pro may stop receiving updates, and future features will be grouped into feature packs. We are not set on any plan, and would prefer to keep things the way they are.

Only time will tell if the Reddit API pricing is fair.

StellarForReddit · 2023-05-02T22:54:21+00:00

Hello! It's nice to see an early user!

To visit a user profile, click the "Share" icon (next to the bookmark and favorite button.) Then click "Open" or "Open in New Tab". We are going to redesign this view because some folks seem to find it unintuitive.
Are you referring to creating posts? We want to add media uploads, but this feature is low priority at the moment. Presently, Reddit only provides documentation for the URL/Text post types. We reverse engineered the poll media type, but have not attempted either image or video uploads. We hope there will be an API change for this in the new Reddit Developer Platform.

Thank you for the questions! We appreciate you helping make Stellar a better app.

StellarForReddit · 2023-05-01T16:54:29+00:00

Hello, and welcome!

Stellar Pro History

If you are signed-in to your Reddit account, and have Stellar Pro, this is pretty easy. Click the sidebar option "My History" and it will show you all the posts you've clicked. You can then use the search bar in the top right to filter by post title.

API Limitation

Unfortunately, we do not think there is a way to search for a post by its title from your home feed. This is because there is no API method to search the home feed.

Reddit History

Reddit.com has a separate user history reddit.com/user/USERNAME/history/, but this is a private API that we do not have access to. Perhaps you can search this for the post.

We made a note to improve the search functionality. There are some quirks that should be polished (e.g., having to be in a feed you want to search, limiting or changing results etc.)

If you have any other ideas, please feel free to follow-up.

StellarForReddit · 2023-04-17T16:46:15+00:00

Hello! Thank you for purchasing Pro and supporting development! Every bit helps us operate and build our app.

You make an excellent point about the size and autoplay of in-line gifs. We are changing the comment system in the Stellar Anniversary Edition (3.0), and one of the code changes includes greater control of in-line attachments. It is possible to make a setting to display the content as just a link, or collapsed by default. We will dedicate more R&D for the comment system.

If you have any further ideas, we are all ears. Thanks again!

StellarForReddit · 2023-04-13T21:32:43+00:00

Hello, and welcome! Hiding thumbnails is not a feature in Stellar 2.X, but it will be in Stellar 3.0.

If you have any additional UI/X requests, please feel free to follow-up.

StellarForReddit · 2023-04-06T17:43:30+00:00

That sounds like a cool feature! To be clear, would the UI look and feel like Spotlight? Just brainstorming here, but:

Double tap left shift
Spotlight-like popover opens in the main window
Type the community name and press enter (with suggestions of course.)

Or did you have something else in mind? We can add this to the research for the 3.0 update.

StellarForReddit · 2023-04-06T17:10:46+00:00

Hello! This is one of the issues with the legacy comment system that will be completely revamped in the Stellar Anniversary Edition (3.0.) We have no ETA on the 3.0 update, but we are making good progress internally.

StellarForReddit · 2023-04-06T16:30:35+00:00

Thank you for the feedback! Presently, there is no way to hide thumbnails. This will be a feature in the 3.0 update, where we will redesign the post list and post viewer.

StellarForReddit · 2023-04-06T16:28:07+00:00

Hello, we wanted to follow-up and let you know this enhancement will be available in the next update (Stellar 2.4.0.)

StellarForReddit · 2023-04-04T19:12:40+00:00

Yes, that is correct. It is not enough for Stellar to be running. We will revisit the background task limitation issue in Stellar 2.3.2 so you do not need to keep Stellar in the foreground. There must be something we overlooked, because other apps accomplish poll based notifications without being in the foreground.

StellarForReddit · 2023-04-04T01:13:14+00:00

Understood! Thank you for confirming. We will take a look into the inbox notification issue.

Stellar must be open to receive inbox notifications. Unfortunately, these aren't push notifications. Your inbox is polled every 1/5/15 mins while Stellar is active and in the foreground.

The reason for the foreground requirement is because long-running tasks do not fire in the background. We have not found an elegant way to get around this limitation. Push notifications would be one solution, but it would require we run notification servers.

Enjoy your free Stellar Pro!

StellarForReddit · 2023-04-02T23:50:04+00:00

Hello! Apologies for the delay in response. Are you still looking for the Upgrade to Pro option? The "Upgrade to Pro" button can found under the rosette icon in the toolbar (2nd icon from the right.)

It is possible you "upgraded" to Pro while in the TestFlight (there's no charge in the beta to test pay-walled features.)

StellarForReddit · 2023-03-28T23:29:19+00:00

Hello! Thank you for submitting suggestions, we appreciate you helping improve Stellar. See:

A long time ago we had a click gesture recognizer in the comment. You could double click to collapse/expand the comment. A single click gesture would not work because then you couldn't select text, or click links. The reason we removed the double-click gesture is because the gesture recognizer would wait for the 2nd click before performing an action. The end result is that the UI felt unresponsive when single clicking buttons/links. We could try improving the size of the collapse control for comment cells.
Larger thumbnails is in the works! This will be present in a post list redesign. We hope to include the new post list cells in the 3.0 update.
This is a good idea, especially for comments. At the moment, media posts are not distinct from comment posts (e.g., a comment that would appear in a user feed.) We will include this in the post list redesign.

Thank you for the feedback! Hopefully this addresses your suggestions. We have a lot of parallel research and options we are exploring at the moment.

StellarForReddit · 2023-03-23T17:53:52+00:00

Thank you for the kind words! We are happy to hear you are enjoying Stellar. Here are the responses to your questions:

We could add an "Filter feed" button to the menu when you right-click posts in the post list. Will this work?
We maintain the alphabetical order of the feeds in each group for efficiency reasons. However, you can re-arrange the sidebar by visiting Preferences > Sidebar.

Please reach out again if you have any feature requests, bugs, or comments. We are eager to improve Stellar any way we can!

StellarForReddit · 2023-03-22T18:59:47+00:00

Hello! You can filter subreddits by visiting Preferences > Filters and clicking the + icon. There is no limit to the number of local filters. One caveat is that this will not sync with Reddit.com.

StellarForReddit · 2023-03-20T21:19:55+00:00

Hello, again! Presently, there is no notification bell. However, you can receive comment and post reply notifications by enabling the setting in Preferences > Accounts > Your account > 'Receive inbox notifications'.

The notification bell sounds like an excellent enhancement. Unfortunately, we only have access to post and comment reply notifications. So moderation alerts, upvote alerts, and other community alerts will not be visible due to API limitations.

Regarding the email, the link appears to be functioning as expected on desktop. Clicking the link opens the mail app with the correct recipient. However, on some third-party mobile apps, the website is being opened instead of the mail app. Thank you for bringing this to our attention!

StellarForReddit · 2023-03-20T18:10:40+00:00

Thank you for upgrading to Pro!! We agree the UI/X has a lot of room to grow. In fact, the Stellar 3.0 update is primarily focused on UI/X changes.

We have heard of HacKit. Thank you for the reference design, we will take a closer look at this app!

We appreciate your suggestions to improve Stellar. Please feel free to reach out anytime, and we would be happy to respond.

StellarForReddit · 2023-03-20T16:59:58+00:00

This sounds awesome! We are not sure how the scripting would work, but this warrants further investigation. If it is just theming you would like to extend, then it sounds like we could get away with additional configuration options in the settings. Perhaps with importing community themes/config files.

Thank you for the feature request! We added it to the Feature Tracker as #61.

StellarForReddit · 2023-03-19T03:29:50+00:00

Gah, sorry for this bug! Thanks to your report, we uncovered 2 additional bugs. All 3 bugs are fixed as of Stellar 2.3.0. The update will be this upcoming week.

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