• Flying Squid
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    683 months ago

    Huffman’s top goals included launching Reddit’s iOS and Android apps

    Mission accomplished! Those undeniably shitty apps definitely were launched.

    • @tal@lemmy.today
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      193 months ago

      I’ve never used them, but IIRC they acquired some third-party client and then just modified them. “Blue Alien” or something like that?

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      “Alien Blue”, at least for the official iOS app.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Blue

      I dunno what the history of the Android app is.

      That being said, they’re responsible for what they acquire, just saying that a lot of that might not be developed in-house.

      • @poppy@lemm.ee
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        243 months ago

        They acquired Alien Blue, but what they put out under “Reddit” was not Alien Blue in the least bit. They basically bought it to kill it. I had Alien Blue. :(

      • Flying Squid
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        143 months ago

        Hey, acquiring another app and launching it as your own app is still launching it! What would they have done without spez?

          • quicklime
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            73 months ago

            My favorite way to visualize the meaning of “asshat”: the person is such a sad waste of human life that their entire upper body is effectively just a hat for their posterior.