Official Reddit app launches


A while back Reddit acquired the popular third-party Reddit app Alien Blue. The intent originally if I recall was for that to become the official app, but it looks like they build an app from scratch.

The new app looks fairly slick with a modern timeline view. I'm still getting the feel for it. On one hand it's nice seeing images appear inline, but it also takes much longer to skim the front page.

If you were a user of Blue Alien, Reddit gifted you four years of premium service. If you download and activate the new app, you'll receive three months. If you do both, you get four years and three months.

With the official Reddit app, you can:

- Browse all of Reddit, wherever you are
- Search and discover communities by topic or interest
- Submit your own comments, images, links, and stories for others to view and discuss
- Customize Reddit with themes (including night theme)
- View in either compact view or card view
- Stay up to date with your orangereds with Inbox: messages, comment replies, post replies, and mentions ...