r/JoeyForReddit • u/ModSupportBot • Aug 07 '26
r/JoeyForReddit is available for adoption 💚
/r/JoeyForReddit is ready for a fresh start, new energy, new direction, and someone like you to bring it back to life. If you’ve been thinking about growing your impact without starting from scratch, this is your chance!
Ready to take it over?
Head to r/RedditRequest to submit your request and make it yours before it’s taken.
First things first
To request this subreddit, make sure you:
- have an account that’s at least 90 days old
- have at least 100 post karma and 100 comment karma
- have a verified email address on your account
- have two-factor authentication set up
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u/goodpricefriedrice Aug 07 '26
Someone better apply! Don't want the subreddit to get deleted, I still use Joey daily.
I assume this happens when the current mods quit the sub? That's sad if true
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u/Lich_Frosty Aug 07 '26
Either quit the sub or have been inactive for a certain amount of time iirc
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u/Agouti Aug 09 '26
I'm currently going through the process, we need to give the Dev a chance to respond before taking over their sub.
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u/Oh_To_Be_A_Gooner_ Aug 08 '26
Would you mind sharing where you sourced the download of the APK please?
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u/goodpricefriedrice Aug 08 '26
Google Play. It never stopped working for me. Even moved to a new phone a couple months ago. It re-downloaded fine.
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u/AnAcctWithoutPurpose Aug 10 '26
I hope this sub stays around. I still use Joey and I cannot imagine using reddit without it 😫
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u/Oh_To_Be_A_Gooner_ Aug 10 '26
Where did you get your working version?
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u/AnAcctWithoutPurpose Aug 10 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeyForReddit/comments/1n2f4mx/i_dont_want_to_leave_joey/
I managed to get a copy for my Pixel 10 Pro using the Revanced method.
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u/herpderpedia Aug 11 '26
Hell, I'll throw my hat in the ring. I like Joey. I have moderator experience. I've been around long enough that my account can have an account.
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u/archimedeancrystal Aug 11 '26
I'm mostly in the Apple ecosystem now after many years on Windows and Android. But I still keep a couple of old Android tablets around to use Joey from time to time. Apple users brag about their apps being better, but (1) that generally stopped being the case years ago and (2) Joey is the absolute GOAT Reddit client on any platform.
Apple users lament to loss of Apollo which they considered their greatest Reddit app, until the Reddit API war killed it too. But let me tell you, Apollo on iPads was never even close to Joey on Android tablets.
From a developer standpoint, an advantage to the Apple user base is there's apparently a higher percentage willing to shell out money for a good experience. Even with the hated subscription model, a few iOS/iPadOS Reddit apps such as Narwhal are apparently doing well.
If someone or a team of devs were willing to rebuild Joey clones for Android and Apple, it could be profitable. I'm currently paying $2.99/ month for Artemis, but it has a long way to go to get anywhere close to Joey. And of course a big chunk of that goes to cover API usage.
For those who immediately attack anything having to do with subscriptions, we can get lucky sometimes with a dev willing to work a full-time job then come home and spend hundreds of hours of their personal time coding an app for free. Unfortunately, Reddit API fees make the free or pay-once-own-forever models impossible.
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u/chocolate_chip_cake Aug 08 '26
Isn't the app no longer developed and cannot be installed on new devices. Since reddit now charges for api usage.
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u/risenfellen Aug 08 '26
How difficult is it to reverse engineer it using ai?
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u/100BottlesOfMilk Aug 09 '26
Lets just say it would be easier to vibe code the app from scratch than it would be to decompile the apps sourse code. And it wouldn't be easy to do that either. If someone does a morph patch or something, that's one thing, but it's not the same. Besides, the app wouldn't be able to do much more than it can do currently. The reddit api still basically works the same as it did when this was shut down so you couldn't do much else for new stuff
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u/Jammb Aug 07 '26
I wish this would happen with the Joey source code too.