On a whim I decided to give the official app a try because a lot of people will be forced to use it, if they decide to stay on Reddit.
Holy hell, it’s just slow. Can’t scroll through a subreddit without annoying hitches and stutters. Comments aren’t any better also.
On the other hand, Sync is just fucking gorgeous and runs immensely better than the encumbered official app.
How can apps made by small teams or even a single person be better optimized than one supposedly made by a larger team with a larger development budget?
Thing is, they don’t have to do that. They can just wall the garden instead, and then anyone that wants to use Reddit will be forced to either use their garbage or just stay off reddit.
It doesn’t seem to be working out so well for them, but that was in fact one of several potential solutions to this problem. Why do any work, when you can just bully the alternatives into submission?