• intelati@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    OOOOHHH… I remember the name change. (I use/d RIF for the extent of my Reddit tenure) didn’t realize it was a revenue share. I thought (or gathered) that Reddit wanted the “Reddit” app to be the only one named that on the Play Store…

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      1 year ago

      That was basically the motivation at the time. Sync was also affected, which used to offer the app under the label “Reddit Sync” (its original selling point was that you could download a large cache of Reddit to the app for offline viewing and “sync” it up later) and is why the subreddit is still called /r/redditsync.

      It used to have a Snoo icon, too, and had to replace it with the (in my opinion much more clever) up and downvote arrows that form an S shape.