Recent update broke a lot – BaconReader for Reddit Review

This has been for years my favorite reddit app. I’ve used it on android and iOS and it’s always been amazing. After the update a week ago however it’s become very broken. The app has always had full screen ads, but they were static and without sound. That was fine. Now they’ve become several second long video or “playable” ads, that don’t show the x to close them for a good chunk of time. Usually pressing where the x should be still closed the ad, but it’s incredibly frustrating that it closes out music, and it was such a sudden change. It’s also done that without actually loading the ad, so I have to close the app and restart to get music to play again. It’s also stopped showing the speaker icon on almost videos, so I can’t play sound at all. In full screen or the smaller window with comments underneath. Android also has a scroll bar so you can see how long the video is, no idea why that isn’t on iOS. That is of course assuming the video loads at all. Videos and photos have entirely stopped loading, even if you try and click the link itself. It will forever try and load. Comments have recently started cutting off short as well, so you can only read part of some comments. I don’t know what happened with the latest update, but it’s ruined an incredible app.
Review by ActuallyACat92 on BaconReader for Reddit.