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For those who lurk on Reddit - my ad-free, open source Reddit viewer RDX is an iPhone app now (apps.apple.com)

submitted 5 months ago by overdevs@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Posting the update here because most of the users of RDX come from Lemmy community only.

Why?

A lot of users asked for a more polished viewer with more features and users in the EU now can not add web apps to home screen, so I spent some time building an iOS app. You can also save images and videos/gifs from Reddit now. It's stil completely free (with an optional donate option available), the web app also works.

You can download the app here

Previous posts for context:

https://lemmy.world/post/10428140

My reddit web viewer still works! Story: When reddit killed 3rd party apps, I uploaded a web viewer I have been using for myself to Github pages for everyone to use...

If you want to lurk on Reddit, you can use this web reader I built for myself when I got inspired by the Apollo app years ago

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[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

can you remove it so reddit can eff off?

[–] thrawn@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hi op, thanks for making this. My opinions of Reddit aside, this is a neat app.

Is it possible to open a link from Reddit in this app, maybe with a Safari extension? The mobile site is dogshit and, because old reddit threads often provide the most useful solutions, I sometimes find myself struggling against that unusable site.

I’d also suggest having collapsible sub groups separate from subscriptions, like Alien Blue did, since you have an AB reference in the colors. Back then, I liked having that so I could have groups for news, hobbies, etc. But without having to see the whole list. Seeing AB there reminded me of a lot of great features that app had.

[–] overdevs@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Oh you noticed the Alien Blue reference, there is an Antenna reference too :) Thing is apple doesn't allow everyone to open apps from safari matching a url like Android, you have to manually verify the app on your domain. I will provide a bookmarklet that you can tap and open the url in rdx. I can do the multireddit thing, maybe in next update.

[–] geography082@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

What I use is Redlib. In EU PWA is working on iOS. Apple I think I read did not continued with the kill of pwa

https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

[–] pseudopsyche@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 5 months ago

Apple reversed the web app decision FYI

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/apple-changes-course-will-keep-iphone-eu-web-apps-how-they-are-in-ios-17-4/

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I swear I’m only partially an idiot – but how do you “go back” after drilling down into a post on iOS?

[–] overdevs@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just swipe back from the left edge? swiping from right will take you to the post page again. Just like a browser.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oddly doesn’t seem to do anything - just the up/down swipe inputs are registering as scrolling.

[–] overdevs@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

This shouldn't happen, I have tested the app on multiple devices. Try this go to the settings tab, click on donate page or appearance page then try swiping left to right from the left most edge. If even that doesn't work please tell me about the device you are using.

[–] WhiteHairSuperSaiyan@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m not sure why but i am getting no audio from any video. (Granted they are probably mostly from redgifs)

[–] overdevs@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

So the problem with Redgifs is a messy one. There are two ways to embed their videos, one is through their embed code which includes lots of redgifs branding, is tiktok like and not so natie (but it helps them track you etc). The other is a mp4 file that just works like any other video except they don't have audio. Since almost all of the gifs on Redgifs are nsfw I chose the kater method to display their vids. You can always click the little safari icon (or the globe icon on android) and view the redgif with audio.

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