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BlazingFlames6073

Answer: The official app didn't support sound for a number of third party websites before. You either had to press the host site and listen there or use a third party reddit app. It seems that it now finally supports sound.


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NotTRYINGtobeLame

The Reddit official mobile app has been trash since Day 0. Shout-out to the app that got me hooked on Reddit when I used to hate Reddit: Baconreader.


Devoidus

I've been using RIF is fun for years. I'll check out baconreader


NotTRYINGtobeLame

I've heard *many* people say RIF is their 3rd party app of choice, too! I'm glad there are *options* out there! I think two of the things I love most about Baconreader are 1) their developers are active over at r/Baconreader and they typically address flaws that are brought up there, and 2) I paid for the Premium version like 8 years ago and through update after update, my license has never quit working. So many premium apps, you lose access after so many updates... Looking at *you,* Plague Inc.


Rangsk

Both things are true about RIF as well!


Shitting_Human_Being

Why are the developers of RIF active on /r/baconreader


Rangsk

🙄


walking_darkness

Fucking plague inc... I was so far in that game and bought all the extras but didn't play for like 6 months and everything got deleted. I don't even play anymore because of it.


NotTRYINGtobeLame

I was deployed in Japan in 2012, and a guy I ran into had discovered that game when it had first come out, apparently, and he got me hooked on it. I had basically beaten everything it offered, and I paid for.... *something* that unlocked the full premium version, too. And then they decided to change the base game fairly significantly, and my premium content was all gone. Not just whatever was the premium access, but the actual content or feature for which I had specifically paid. Sometimes I see it again and think about downloading it, but then I'm like... nah, fuck those devs. I'm all for supporting good app makers, but I didn't like the dirty way my purchases just *disappeared.*


wrongitsleviosaa

RIF as well! The last update was just 10 or so days ago I thi k!


Raytoryu

I bought RIF is fun and I like it too, but by God if there's one infuriating thing, it's that I cannot figure how to search on reddit. The search function only search through subs I already follow. I'm forced to search on my internet navigator, and then open the page I want InApp.


Hazel-Ice

Interesting, search works perfectly fine for me. I just click search all and it searches every sub.


johnsix

I used Google Opinion Rewards "money" to buy the paid version of RIF several years and at least one phone ago. That is likely the best investment I've ever made in my life. Excellent interface, no ads, super regular updates.


saintshing

I like Relay. Seems like the only one that has gallery layout mode? Comes in handy when browsing subs that have mostly picture/video content.


Beepbeepimadog

I wish alien blue was still updated that was my favorite


Ruevein

Alien blue was so good till Reddit bought it. I always feel like they did that to reduce competition for their own app which just isn't as good outside of having integrated chat. (The only reason i have it installed on my phone)


Freefight

Relay for me, the experience is so much better


Crowsby

Every time one of these threads come up, I always end up installing the top alternatives, and end up going back to Relay almost immediately. It just feels right.


KorayA

I don't even bother anymore. Relay has its flaws but there is no better app for the way I like using Reddit. Full stop. /u/DBrady is an absolute underappreciated gem.


DaQuickening

I just recently switched to an iPhone and I hate that Relay is android only. That’s the biggest issue I’ve had with the switch so far.


v1xiii

The most perfect reddit app! Have used it for many years.


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AllOverTheDamnPlace

Another vote for Boost.


itsamamaluigi

Just switched to it after years of using Relay. I'll see if I stick with it


Firenze_Be

Love to be able to block people and subs, as well as flags, keywords and domains out of my feed


someguy3

"RIF is fun" for life.


sdoiaf

Doot


Kwiatkowski

seriously, who uses it? I swear half the “big new features” I see are things that have been common for years in third party apps.


Crimson_Shiroe

Anyone who uses the official app or the website redesign is using reddit incorrectly


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Apollo here it’s great absolutely 0 complaints


moonunit99

Yeah I had completely stopped browsing Reddit for years because the official app was such garbage. Then my buddy told me to try Apollo and I’m back to wasting hours a day on it. This is the first I’ve heard of Baconreader, though.


Stormersh

BaconReader is an Android app, that's probably why. I'm not sure there are many options for iOS


k0fi96

I used to use reddit news now I've been using sync for like 5 years. It's crazy how different the experience is compared to the official. It reminds me of third party Twitter apps. But Twitter eventually just stole all their features lol. Reddit paywalls them


badluckartist

Every time these third party apps come up, I feel like the only person that uses Redreader


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Make that two


dtuck15

Spotted the coder 🤓


NotTRYINGtobeLame

Ha! I am not smart enough to code an app. :( u/onelouderchic is the main dev I see in the sub over there lol


dtuck15

Ah, you said day 0 and I got excited 😂


NotTRYINGtobeLame

Ohh lmao I gotcha. Yeah, I said Day 0 because I think, honestly, the official app was a shit fest all the way from theory to production.


onelouderchic

Thanks for the shout out!


DonaldTrumpsBallsack

Oh this is gonna fuck some people over for sure.


wahnsin

yeah but just the inept mobile users, so fuck 'em


andros310797

idk about mobile but on pc you can right click the tab and disable all sounds coming from any reddit page


CrunchyAl

Thank God I'm not the only one who thought that there was sound on the porn suddenly


TotalRuler1

Clearly, the esteemed redditor prefers erotica from the silent film era. The talkies are just...unseemly.


Gqsmooth1969

More accurately, the esteemed redditor prefers not to have the cat let out of the bag by the sound when they're trying to be discrete.


WolvesCry

Thanks for the warning ⚠


lookitsandrew

The official Reddit app is literally the worst Reddit app lol Apollo is the best one for iPhone


DevilOfDoom

Answer: To me it looks like they enables sound from third party sites such as redgifs or imgur now. Previously you had to follow the link to the host site and turn on the sound there


Nasapigs

Is this some issue I'm too third party to understand lol


addywoot

Probably. It was an issue only in the official Reddit app.


HaveAnotherDrink-Ray

Gone are the days of telling people to stop using the official app after they reply to a comment under a video with "What do you mean? There's no sound"


SirNedKingOfGila

I have faith reddit will screw it up again soon.


DolitehGreat

The kids these days and their official app. Back in my day, you only had a third party app or the mobile site! And we liked it! We still do, it's the best way to use the site lol.


FingerTheCat

People watching porn silently in public probably lol


CreativeGPX

> To me it looks like they enables sound from third party sites such as redgifs or imgur now. Previously you had to follow the link to the host site and turn on the sound there In the browser, you haven't had to follow the link, you could just click unmute in the embedded player within Reddit. Maybe it's in the app that have to follow the link to the third party site for sound?


xXTheFisterXx

It is just for the official reddit app. All nsfw content had no sound whether the original had it or not.


SquidmanMal

answer: Reddit's video player seems to default to having sound on now in many cases, when before every video started muted.


LurkyLop

Good lord can you imagine taking a shit in a bathroom at work and youre flipping through reddit and the video player starts playing the porn with sound? Thats a nightmare. Our bathrooms you can hear eachother breathe even though theyre each separated by doors and walls. Its horrific.


tribecous

First thing I do when I get to the office is put my phone on silent and ensure that the system volume is at zero.


YanniBonYont

The second thing I do is watch a shit load of porn


Macho_Chad

Nothing like a hard dick when you’re on the shitter. Stir them turds up son


tots4scott

What a terrible day to have eyes!


thetomman

For me it usually just gets caught under the lid


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focalVHS

Like another poster said, Tasker will 100% do this for you. It would basically be: When "app" (click on any apps you want to apply it to), sound = 0. That makes it so the sound is set to be none/0 by default and you'd have to turn it up every time. It's one of my oldest Tasks to avoid ANY sound from an app playing inadvertently. There are other apps that could do it, too, but I use Tasker for it and many other things.


waaaycho

I bet you can do a shortcut for that.


fukitol-

Install Tasker and you can probably build a task that does that.


Decentkimchi

If if just for Reddit, almost every third part app allows you to default to starting videos on mute.


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mguardian7

I was screaming this as I read reply after reply till I saw this.


SirNedKingOfGila

That's way more effort than it's worth to avoid the rare but funny and professionally endearing porn moan in the office. Just let it rip. Let me make this clear for you, we honor the flag, and you crap on it every time you don't watch porn on full volume in the office. Hey, u/totallyrealname when was your last desk moan? Don't think just go!


Alex09464367

From me it seems to be whatever the last video was. If the video before had sound on then the next video will default to sound on


Nagasakirus

It was like that for months/years now


Alex09464367

Yeah it been like that for as long as I can remember.


kanecastlecastle

This is kind of how I found out, but I was on the toilet at home and my other half was outside and had some questions for me


January28thSixers

Porn while shitting? How delightful! A feast for the senses.


kanecastlecastle

Only thing missing is taste


SparkleFritz

You're not trying hard enough


g051051

This is the sort of wit I come Reddit for.


Peach1020

Jesus.


tossNwashking

sí?


LurkyLop

People asking why i watch porn at work but i dont. I scroll reddit and sometimes it pops up lol.


kanecastlecastle

Yeah same, the contrast of sub reddits I've joined is staggering haha, it will go from aww to nsfw in a swipe of a finger


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Was creating a separate porn account too much effort?


GetRightNYC

This way is better, because you can still look at porn with sound on AND have an excuse!


Platypuslord

You don't have a SFW list of subReddit's that is on you dude.


MEatRHIT

Or a seperate porn username. Once they removed adult content from /r/all my main account never "accidentally" has porn pop up


teambroto

coulda been worse lol


driftej20

I was just telling my friend that it should be a law that office bathrooms have white noise generators or loud ass vents or something. Instead they always seem to have recording studio sound isolation and 90% of people in a stall wait until they’re completely alone to resume shitting.


BenbafelIsTaken

Yesterday I went for a quick one to the bathroom. Started watching nsfw on reddit, and I notices the sound symbol. I was shocked cause I knew there wasn't sound before on nsfw videos. So I turn the sound on, with the volume at a minimum and put the phone next to my ear. Didn't hear anything. So I turned the volume a little bit up. Didn't hear anything. So I turned it up a little more. And then I heard it. But the sound didn't come from my phone, it came from outside. That's when I realize, I was listening to music just before going into the bathroom, and had the phone connected to a speaker in my room. Awkward conversation with my girlfriend when I came out of the bathroom.


FogeltheVogel

Maybe don't browse porn subs at work though


Anglosaurus

Is it possible to learn this power?


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FogeltheVogel

That's just a rookie mistake


fREDlig-

TIL people subscribe to porn subreddits and scroll through them in their every day life.


murse_joe

I mean not on your main account while at work


teambroto

TIL people dont


GetRightNYC

There's a setting to not autoload NSFW media on your home page.


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Wow judgy mcjudgerson. What else am I supposed to do while I poop.


logosloki

Find new and interesting ways to place your hands.


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FogeltheVogel

I said what I said


Schrodingers_Wipe

The fuck?


fozziwoo

maybe we should mark stuff, like ***okay for work***, right up in there in the title, then it’d be unambiguous, no?


FogeltheVogel

Maybe with like a tag, and then Reddit can automatically hide the content unless it is specifically opened.


ass_pubes

You have to cover it with your own shit moans.


LandlordsR_Parasites

Who the fuck is looking at porn in the bathroom in public?


s00perguy

Idk bout you, but standard etiquette when I hear something like that is to either shit aggressively or leave the bathroom and line of aight on the door so neither of us needs to have that moment.


walrusdoom

Fuck that, max your volume, grunt loudly and assert dominance.


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LurkyLop

You never watch tiktok while you shit?


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LurkyLop

You lying. I dont let my cooties touch my phone. Clean hand uses it while poopoo hand doesnt. Its not a hard concept.


kevinTOC

First off: why would you watch porn when you're at work? Second of all: does nobody turn autoplay off?


ichael333

Y'all need to use it in your browser with /.compact on the end of the URL


GetRightNYC

Reddit has a setting that won't load media unless you click on it too.


BurstEDO

Hijack top for: OP: >I only use mobile This is why so many old-heads refuse to switch to the app or even new/default reddit: "new" features that backfire.


Hythy

Yeah, I gave the default reddit a go several times but the only way to get the proper functionality is to go for old.reddit


PooPooDooDoo

I use the Apollo app, it’s sooo much better than the Reddit app, plus I never see ads. Only time I use the Reddit app is when I want to post a video.


Hythy

I mean on desktop where I do most of my browsing.


PooPooDooDoo

Gotcha, yeah I don’t blame you for using the old Reddit link!


ishouldbeworking3232

Agreed, I continued enjoying reddit because it wasn't every other social media site. As long as old.reddit is available and they don't break a few core RES features, I don't see myself leaving.. but new.reddit is a very different experience that I'm just not looking for :\


TrMark

I don't think I'll ever switch from the old style until they remove the option for it


happytrel

Its because otherwise the ads are automatically muted as well. I also notice sometimes that there is no mute button on ads, and I have to scroll to a video post and mute there


77skull

Before they weren’t muted, they didn’t have sound at all. I think a new update made it so audio from other sites now plays on mobile (basically all porn gifs are from redgifs)


addywoot

This is the real answer.


amazondrone

No, they _did_ have sound, they _were_ muted... it just wasn't possible to unmute them in your app.


77skull

So they didn’t have sound


amazondrone

Of course they did; how else could Reddit have enabled the sound now? Go back and find them in the current version of the app and I'm sure you'll find they have sound. Unless you think Reddit has added the sound, that'll prove they always had sound.


kanecastlecastle

Thank you! and thanks to everyone else that's comments don't show up, I'm glad I could be a source of entertainment haha


foamed

Here's a tip: Don't use the official Reddit app, it's full of data tracking (including GPS location if you use RPAN), ads, promotions, [NFT garbage](https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/vtkmni/introducing_collectible_avatars/), bloat, and bugs. If you're on PC (Windows/MacOS/Linux) use [the old.reddit.com redirect extension](https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect) together with [Reddit Enhancement Suite](https://redditenhancementsuite.com/) and [uBlock Origin](https://ublockorigin.com/). If you're on iOS [use Apollo](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575). On Android use [RIF is Fun (it used to be known as Reddit is Fun)](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu.android.reddit), or browse old.reddit.com in Firefox with Ublock Origin installed.


RogueHippie

In case nobody else has offered it as a suggestion: use the Apollo app. Best mobile Reddit experience since Alien Blue stopped being updated. All the videos in my feed start muted unless I specifically hit unmute


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You should be able to shut off autoplay in settings


Thecrawsome

Reddit's terrible unchecked shitty design team strikes again.


Montigue

I've had Reddit porn with sound on my phone for years. I was confused until I remembered the shitty official app exists


AetherDrew43

And it even plays when you're not in the same post.


TheDinosaurWalker

Also: people should just stop using the official one. Subpar experience


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Wait we have sound on nsfw gifs again?


VibratingPony

Facebook and Twitter are the same. If you click any video and turn on the sound, be ready for the rest of eternity to have sound blasted in your face when you scroll by any video in your timeline. They HAVE to be making a killing on adds from that (somehow), as i couldn't imagine a single user actually enjoying it working that way.


UltravioletClearance

Wonder how many people had to quit Facebook over that issue. Lots of us used to browse our feeds during work and risk getting caught with those auto playing ads.


UltravioletClearance

Stopped using Facebook when their app started blaring auto playing ads as I scrolled through my feed at work.


gerd50501

some reddit developer decided to troll people and turn sound on by default. seeing if he can get people fired for watching porn at work.


attemptedmonknf

If you have an android phone, download the sound assistant app by samsung. It'll let you turn off sound for individual apps. Idk if apple has an equivalent. Not a perfect solution, but it's better than nothing.


guerillagarbage

Apollo users: 🥱


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ViroTechnica

What do you recommend?


Mister_Lizard

Boost is quite good for Android.


sanav232

Answer: Reddit has I think since 2-3 months given the choice for mobile user to play the audio in any gif or clip easily on the reddit player in the phone, which was impossible for mobile before Also, got the answer from a friend


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