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.
Same! Now using Relay, but I still remember BaconReader. I wonder if kids nowadays even know the connection between bacon, reddit and narwhals.
Tell me, when does the narwhal bacon?
It died, so it can’t bacon anymore :(
That’s a deep cut.
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.
Hey, here’s a link to a list of lemmy apps for both Android and IOS https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/103663/List-of-lemmy-apps
Thanks, very cool to see Slide is coming over as well
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.
Pretty sure I saw something about it…
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!
I’m using one on iOS called Memmy to type this. You get it via Testflight. So far it’s been near perfect.
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!
Welcome!!
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.
I used Baconreader my entire reddit career, at least since like 2010 but I can’t remember when I actually joined. I’m gonna miss it. If they converted it to Lemmy I’d be thrilled. Any former BR users have a preferred Lemmy app? I’m using Jerboa for Android right now and it’s all right but I don’t love it yet
Shit man, BaconReader was the first Reddit app I downloaded. I eventually settled on RiF but this is just sad.
Fuck spez.
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
“Pretending to be redditors to seem cool” is a bizarre idea, and I say that as a ten year user of reddit
Woah I haven’t heard that in ages!
lol, I remember that time, bacon was everywhere like it was some new thing.
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. :(
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.
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.
So many Reddit apps I’ve never even tried, and yet I feel sad seeing these kinds of posts.
I have tried 0 Reddit apps, and these posts make me sad. T_T
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!
Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll check it out.
I’ve just been using the mobile website
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.
Still using it for today as I want to use it till it’s last moment but tomorrow will be sad
Bacon reader forever
It’s official now for me for the past hour.
The reality of my late night scrolling is over. I refuse to ever download that dreadful app of there’s again. I did use the webapp via Firefox on Android for a few mins there and it’s better than the app, but still so hard to navigate. Baconreader was just so easy. I had all my favourites, could have multiple accounts that I could swap between, everything I needed was at my fingertips.
After a decade it’ll be hard to recreate. But I guess this it.
GOT IT :(
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.
