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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
7 year Baconreader user with various different accounts. Sad to see it go. Maybe the devs can make a similar app for Lemmy. Currently using Liftoff on Android.
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. :(
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.
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
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!!
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