Goodnight sweet prince

AlataOrange@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.world – 440 points –

I have been with you from your creation now to your grave. You were never really the most popular Reddit app, but you were my Reddit app. I will miss you.

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BaconReader was my first Reddit app on Android all the way before there was even an official app. I remember one time the developer sent me some BaconReader stickers in the mail.

Same! Now using Relay, but I still remember BaconReader. I wonder if kids nowadays even know the connection between bacon, reddit and narwhals.

I feel sad seeing all of these goodbye posts from these developers that have put so much work into these apps only to have Reddit just spit in their face and not even be willing to negotiate any type of agreement

Are any app developers other than Sync moving to Lemmy? I like that that one will be more of a new beginning than an end.

Infinity for Reddit is being converted to Lemmy.

Is it? Last thing I heard is that they were switching it to subscription only in an effort to try and afford to continue.

I really hope so. I haven’t heard of any other than sync. I know the Apollo dev is taking a break and doesn’t have any plans of developing an app right now but I do hope that changes. I can say though that the developers that are making apps for Lemmy right now are very impressive.

Check out https://wefwef.app, it's an apollo-like web client for Lemmy that you can log in to and use like an app. Your browser should let you install it on your phone like an app (normally you click the menu icon and find the "Install" option but it depends on your browser.

I’ve been using that one also! It’s very impressive for a web client. Pretty much been switching between Memmy and wefwef!

Just logged into my new Lemmy, after also being in the sweet sweet frying pan of 🥓 To see this as basically the first post on my new news feed does feel good to be honest. I hope the migration goes well for us all!

RIP baconreader, I never understood your name but used you every day.

Old Reddit used to be obsessed with bacon. To be fair much of the internet was at that time.

A call sign you could use to identify a redditor in person was to ask "when does the narwhal bacon" with the response "it bacons at midnight".

Hence where bacon reader derives its name from.

So there was a time where the most common phrase among redditors was "the narwhal bacons at midnight" and during this time redditors were concerned about non-redditors pretending to be redditors to seem cool.

It was less about trying to find posers, and more about trying to find fellows. If you've ever played a semi obscure game and then seen someone with a bumper sticker or decal of that game you'd get the picture.

That's at the whole thing was very silly. Honestly the entirety of the internet at the time was much less serious and dour.

much less serious

EXCEPT when it came to grammar and spelling! Honestly, I miss that kind of pedantry from the old days.

I remember when instead of getting downvoted for having a slightly different opinion you'd get downvoted for the minorest of grammar/spelling mistakes.

I thought it was to identify the people who didn't go to the Reddit meet ups... Or was that something to do with waffles and carrots. I never got into the circle jerk side of Reddit

Shit man, BaconReader was the first Reddit app I downloaded. I eventually settled on RiF but this is just sad.

Fuck spez.

I tried almost all of the Reddit apps over the years but ended up with BR as I found it was the most polished. Thank you to the devs who put so much effort in, sorry to see it go.

I feel bad for these devs. I’m sure they’ll be fine but some of them have been maintaining their apps for a decade plus. You get attached to your code after that long.

Others used RIF and Apollo, but I was firmly Team BaconReader from the moment I downloaded it a decade ago. I had deleted the application off my phone a few weeks back to help curb the habit, but seeing this now really hammered the nail into the coffin. At least it now has its own send off of sorts with one last update to the Play Store.

On the off chance that they see this, thank you BaconReader devs for 12 years of service!!

yea, i stuck with bacon reader for 10 years. very sad to see it go.

So many Reddit apps I've never even tried, and yet I feel sad seeing these kinds of posts.

In terms of sheer hours of use, buying the ad-free version of the app 10 or 11 years ago now was probably the best value purchase I've ever made. RIP BaconReader, it's been a wonderful journey. :(

BR was the only way I've used reddit for the past 11 years. Sucks that it ended.

I'm normally very paranoid about any"this is too much value for what they're charging" (read free apps" as I know I'm the product, and I don't like being the product, but bacon reader, however much money they made off of me, was worth every one of the 200 cents and however much$they made from my data.

Fuck Steve Huffman aka spez the jailbait moderator.

I used BaconReader on Android before I used Apollo on iPhone. It was a great app at the time I used it. Yet another app succumbing to corporate greed. Sadge.

@AlataOrange Bacon reader was my first 3rd party apps for Reddit and really what made Reddit great for me in the first place. Thank you and the team for doing work that brought me to Reddit!

I did not make Bacon Reader, nor did I work on its team. I'm just another displaced ex-redditor mourning the lost of what once was, and had started using Bacon Reader when it originally came out 12 yrs ago.

10 years... Thanks for everything. I'm sad it's over, but taking time away from reddit has been a good thing for me. There is less noise here.

Still using it for today as I want to use it till it's last moment but tomorrow will be sad

Bacon reader forever

Time to actually uninstall. It's been real. ☮️

Ugh seeing this message last time I opened the app made me so sad. Baconreader was the major way I used reddit for the past what, decade maybe? The devs really knocked it out the park, it was so full-featured and just such a wonderful user experience. I've been hoping they would make a baconreader for Lemmy but I don't think that'll happen. I'm using Jerboa and - no offense to the Jerboa devs because I know this is still an early product! - but it's like downgrading from broadband to the Pony Express.

I'll miss reddit but I have lemmy now. I actually think I'll miss baconreader more!

I’m using Jerboa and - no offense to the Jerboa devs because I know this is still an early product! - but it’s like downgrading from broadband to the Pony Express

This is a very important point that people seem to gloss over here. The reddit app is crap, but the current Lemmy apps (and software) is very buggy as well. This is to be expected, but it will turn a lot of people off from switching over.

The big difference is how it is expected to evolve. Lemmy and associated apps will only get better over next months and years. Reddit will continue to get worse and the app more bloated.

I was having too many problems with Jerboa, so I installed Connect for Lemmy this morning and have been liking it so far. Might want to give it and others a test run to see what you like best.

Same, except I switched to Liftoff. It's a little hard to find in the Google Play store, but the app itself is great so far!

Today, is the last day of a decade of service to the community, rest peacefully and thahks for all

Boost was my app of choice. As with others in the community, I launched the rocket (donated money) to say goodbye. It's honestly weird and bittersweet, I really like Lemmy but I'm going to miss Boost for Reddit. Fuck u/spez.

I just saw that Boost for Lemmy was announced!

That's great news! I thought that the dev for Boost wasn't going to work on a Lemmy version, seeing this in the app store makes me feel a good deal better.