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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 69 points 7 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 19 points 7 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?

googles

"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 23 points 7 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. :(

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 months ago

Alien Blue was fucking awesome, too. Those ass-butts.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago

Those ass-butts.

This is redundant. That's why we put caps on them and call em ass-hats

[-] quicklime@lemm.ee 7 points 7 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.

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