I’m desktop-only user and never had any experience with Reddit/Lemmy apps, and the sentiment towards them confuzes me.
I can imagine that the third-party apps for Reddit were better (?not bugged?) than the official one. But what made you to love them? Was the experience even better than desktop use?
Feel free to write about both Reddit and Lemmy apps in your responses.
The ones for Reddit weren’t nearly as buggy as the official one. For example: the video player. The official app’s video player was absolute garbage. You would randomly hear audio from other random videos while scrolling, videos would refuse to play, and sometimes you would have to spam the play/pause button repeatedly to get through the video. There were a lot of other buggy aspects to the main app but this was one of the biggest complaints. The 3rd-party apps also had accessibility features which allowed users with disabilities to access Reddit.
The Lemmy web app interface is kinda weird on Lemmy and sometimes certain pages load a bit slow. There isn’t much wrong with it though. The 3rd-party apps just feel nicer to use.