What Reddit client did you use before the API changes?

Apollo
- I didn’t even realize how long I’d been using Apollo until all this stuff happened. It’s been the only way I’ve used Reddit for five years. Not having access to it anymore really hurts. Christian did such a phenomenal job of making Apollo feel incredibly intuitive and customizable without feeling overly cluttered. I’m really going to miss spending my time lurking over there.
  
  Damn, me too. It sounds so cheesy but it was really integral to me in keeping up with news, etc, etc, etc. I hate that Reddit did all that.
- Have you tried wefwef? It’s pretty much Apollo for lemmy
  
  I haven’t!
  
  It’s renamed voyager now, but I still have the wefwef pwa cus I like the name so much
- Same here, and then I found Memmy for Lemmy and it’s like I just moved to another state that’s just like home
  
  That’s what I use now!

RiF.
- RiP.
- I so dearly miss having multiple columns on the browsing page, so I can feel less like a Facebook user. Connect has been treating me well though and feels very familiar.

Originally? AlienBlue. It was the best, but then they killed it, so I went to Apollo.
- They bought it first and then killed it so that they could present their own BS “official” app.
- The 4 years of reddit gold for free was pretty nice. Didn't ever motivate me to spend a dime on gold myself after it expired, but it made reddit slightly more bearable.
- Seconding this.
- I still have it installed on my work phone.
  
  I have it on my phone too lol. Idk why, but I have a thing about keeping old apps
- I went Alien Blue > Antenna > Narwhal. I think the latter 2 were similar to the original AB. Apollo just felt too cluttered and “extra” to me. I just wanted a minimalist app.
  
  Tried Narwal lately while I ween myself off of Reddit, but I’m not a huge fan. It’s little things, like you can see captions on posts, but it’s got too many little annoyances

RIF. Ugh, what a shame.
- Yeah it's been many years but I remember trying the official reddit app and it simply didnt work. I installed rif and it was perfect. I used rif for many years. Countless hours just scrolling my carefully curated subs.
  So sad. When I launched it and it gave me an error that day the api changes kicked in, it felt like a friend just died.
  Snif.
  I think the fediverse might just be ok tho. These networks taking off right now are thanks to spez. Lol.
- Rif

Sync on android and Apollo on iOS, both were sublime in their own way.
Currently using Memmy on iOS for lemmy, but I have about a dozen other apps installed since I’ve been trying all of them
- I think that memmy is showing a lot of progress, but I’ve been getting better search results from mlem, so I’m using both right now. I think a couple more might be out for iOS right now (just grabbed liftoff).
  I’m another one of those Alien Blue -> Apollo -> gtfo users. I never would have even signed up for reddit if it wasn’t for third party apps because their UI was terrible in every iteration and implementation, and I was a regular user for over ten years.

Sync
- i used to use it but then it had a glitch or something and everybody had the app crash a lot so i switched to RiF
- Me too
- Same but stuck on an old version because I don't have Google Play Services

Boost
- Boost Gang
  
  Checking in! Can't wait for boost for lemmy!

I used the official app, but i decided to quit because of all the API debacle.
So now i use Jerboa for Lemmy.
- Yeah, same here. Th API changes had 0 effect on me, but corporate money grabs that involve restricted access and screwing the community is a big no no for me.
  
  I used the web browser and really loved Reddit, but the way they screwed everyone over was too much to put up with. So glad I found out about Lemmy before I left!
- And the same for me as well. I used the official app, and had no issues with it personally. I lurked for the most part but chimed in on subs about some of my favorite shows and questions regarding programming.
  Once the shitshow hit the fan, I was already planning my exit from Instagram (hardest one, lots of IRL friends over the years), and had joined mastodon. I actually signed up for lemmy and mastodon about a year prior to the migration, but at the time it was pretty dead. Now, while not as lovely as their corporate counterparts, each has a vibrant enough community that I'm not missing either.

RIF was fun for reddit

RiF for nearly 10 years. And is sorely missed.
- revanced extended patched rif, so i still use it

Boooooooooooooost!
- Really looking forward to the Lemmy version. Jerboa has a pretty similar UI but it just doesn't have the same polish.
  
  Yeah. Connect seems to be pretty good. Haven't tried Jerboa

Joey

Joey
- It doesn't get enough credit, but it was the best client in my opinion. Hope he'll make a Lemmy version.

Infinity

Infinity.

- Same. I was a premium user though.

BaconReader
- Oh thank god. I was starting to think I was the only one.

Relay, great app
- Relay still works.

Joey, I would gladly use Joey again if they hosted Lemmy

Apollo

Sync because I had huge preference for apps that followed MD3/Material You. I wish it had an inline comment editor for replying in the middle of threads, that was my only missing feature. Slide did the inline editor nicely.
- Loved sync, used that app for years and years.

Apollo

Joey

Alien Blue, then Sync.
Cannot wait for Sync for Lemmy
- Sync was goated
  
  Still is! Just taking a little vacation atm.

Apollo.

Me, having never used a reddit app, just the web UI (which, as you can imagine, made me as a mobile user hate reddit more and more over time) ...
Wow, didn't there were so many apps. No wonder you were all upset at the API changes!

Joey for Reddit ftw
- My people :)

Apollo. Everyone in my house did. Two have stopped using reddit entirely, I'm still checking on a couple of communities until their counterparts take off here. I'm using Dystopia there now because I'll never, ever download their shitty app.

This falls under #4 - it's very similar to other Reddit discussions and I feel like we're just looking back rather than forward.

Infinity
still works though I have been getting a lot of load errors

I used Sync for Reddit. The dev seems close to releasing the beta of Sync for Lemmy.
Connect for Lemmy has been a very nice alternative, especially after the most recent update. I might be torn once Sync is out.
- This! As a former sync user and recently trying out connect (yesterday for the 1st time), I think I might be torn as well.

Boost. It still works 😀

Infinity as my main, Boost as my second one. Reddit once per year to check if it was getting better or still a shit.

Relay, great app

Bacon Reader Premium

Slide, except for moderating a couple of specific subs where I needed the bullshit that's only available via the official crapp
- Did slide come back? I thought it was basically abandonaste at some point
  
  Another Slide user checking in. I guess I did hear something about it being abandoned, but it continued to work (at least until they all didn't, anyway) so I couldn't be bothered to switch.
  
  It was, but it was still mostly functional and nobody else ever duplicated the tabbed ui even half as well, so I stuck with it.

RiF

RedReader, love me some barebones functionality.

Apollo

Relay for Reddit, which was called Reddit News back in the day. I'm aware it still works; dbrady is developing support for subscriptions for those who want that.
I'm going back and forth between Connect and Thunder for Lemmy. Connect seems most like Relay, but they're both good.
- First fellow relay user I find in this thread. Are most of us still in reddit because app still works?
- Same. I'm still using relay pro until it stops working. Reddit won't see a single cent of subscription money.

Baconreader!!

Relay. Besser als boost :p

Alien Blue and the Apollo.. both were incredible for their time and nothing compares.

Apollo

Infinity

I been using RedReader ever since its beta in 2013 ...
- A fellow person of culture. I still use it to check in on a few communities. Quantum said he might make redreader lemmy compatible!

Rif. Now using Voyager. It's the closest experience I've found.

BaconReader. I didn't shop around. I just downloaded one, liked it enough, and it never gave me reason to go hunting for something different. Unlike the official app, which was one my phone for all of maybe a day.

Relay. I still use it. It still works.

Boost and Infinity. Then Teddit and Libreddit for the browser.

Relay. And I still miss it. Better than any of the other apps I've tried for reddit or lemmy. Very smart design and UX that made it far more usable and enjoyable.

Relay Pro

Slide. It was open source and available on f-droid. It had been a while since the last update and some features were long longer working (in-app YouTube Playback). But I would just open in browser things that didn't work.
It was very easy to use and highly customizable, which is why I used it. And zero ads. Can't stand ads of any kind.

Boost for Reddit (And hopefully Lemmy soon)

Apollo. Now using Narwhal.