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Readit for Windows 10 today picked up a new update. The latest update for the app is just a minor update, and it doesn’t include a lot of new features. However, the update adds a minor improvementfor the Splash screen — which is now Black with the latest update. Additionally, the update also adds Vietnamese localisation. Here’s the full changelog: Splash screen is now black Added Vietnamese as a supported language Updated all translations to the most recent versions The update also includes some bug fixes, which are listed below: Fixed some link parsing bugs Fixed direct to comments for desktop UI Fixed links opening multiple times when only clicking them once (and causing multiple viewers t...

Readit for windows 10 has been updated with a couple of cool new features in the Windows Store today. The update brings along support for Microsoft own Continuity feature (officiallyContinue App Experiences), where users will be able to open an app on their PC from their phone or vice versa and sync their position or data, particularly useful since Readit will soon be available on the Xbox One, meaning you could be reading an interesting story on your phone and then cast it to the Readit app on the Xbox One for everyone to see. The update brings along many more improvements and fixes, including: New tap to reveal NSFW design (Aiversary Update Only) Need feedback here, can remove if necessary...

The Baconit vs Readit debate has just been settled for Windows 10 devices. In its most recent update, Readit has just become the most powerful Readit client on Windows 10 – even when features of RES are taken into account. The new update adds a plethora of features, including cloud sync, user tagging and subreddit tagging as well as bug fixes for the crashing bug that presented itself in the recent past. For aficionados of the Reddit Extensibility Suite, you can now import your settings into Readit. Here’s the changelog below: Subreddit/post tagging Tag subreddits like in RES Adds a tag to a post if it doesn’t contain the specified text (only on front page/all and multireddits) The tag text ...

The subreddit viewing page will now remember, and will reload on navigation, your post list scroll position and the post that you were viewing (but not your place in the comments as they are lazy loaded for performance) You can now search/filter comments that are loaded for a post. It filters/searches on useames and content of the comments. Accessed in the mobile UI via the expanded menu of the appbar Accessed in the desktop UI via the comments header action bar It does not highlight the results as that is not really possible in UWP apps. For future editions of the app, the developer plans to implement features like user tagging,post tagging, cloud sync for accounts and read posts, blocked/f...

Popular Universal Reddit reader Readit hashad a small update to version 4.9.5.0. Theminor update brings a very useful and till now elusive feature – the ability to copy html links in self-posts. It appears the UWP platform does not support copying individual links via right-click, causing the developer CalebKeith to create his own implementation. Right clicking anywhere in a post will now offer the ability to copy a selection of links from that post as seen in the image above. The full changelog reads: General Additions Added a right click menu to self text posts copy text – will copy the entirety of the self text as markdown atm copy link – visible if links are in self text Sub items will b...

Popular Universal Reddit reader Readit hashad a small update to version 4.8.2.0. The updateis a minor one and merely fixes an issue where multi-reddits were missing for some users. Multi-reddits is a new Reddit feature where users are able to mergemultiplesub-reddits into one stream of updates, which is useful for monitoring sub-reddits which are updated less frequently. More significant however is that Calebkeith, the developer, is soon adding support for filtering the ALL article stream, which is particularly useful as itis overrun with political items. Currently of the top Windows Reddit clients only Reddhub support filtering, but has other issues such as poor support for high DPI display...

Popular Universal Reddit reader Readit hashad a small update to version 4.8.2.0. The updateis a minor one and merely fixes an issue where multi-reddits were missing for some users. Multi-reddits is a new Reddit feature where users are able to mergemultiplesub-reddits into one stream of updates, which is useful for monitoring sub-reddits which are updated less frequently. More significant however is that Calebkeith, the developer, is soon adding support for filtering the ALL article stream, which is particularly useful as itis overrun with political items. Currently of the top Windows Reddit clients only Reddhub support filtering, but has other issues such as poor support for high DPI display...

Popular Universal Reddit reader Readit hashad a small update to version 4.6.6.0. The update brings some usability improvements, in particular less accidental swiping when viewing images, which can of course be very aoying. The update also beings a number of otherimprovements, including to modmail and better support for i.reddituploads.com and of course a number of fixes. The full changelog reads: General Additions Swiping on the last/first album image will no longer cause the swipe view to engage When zoomed in on an image in a post or in the album viewer, paing the image will no longer cause swipe view or the album’s swipe view to engage Moderator mail has been added to the hamburger menu a...

Popular Universal Reddit reader Readit hashad a small update to version 4.4.2.0. The update brings some usability improvements and improved animations and visual feedback. The full changelog reads: General Additions Added a post entry/exit animation for mobile mode UI Added visual feedback to the items in the hamburger menu (accounts, settings, inbox, etc.) Bug Fixes Fixed left/right arrow key in reply textbox navigating between posts. Fixed swiping/going backwards after switching subreddits where it would show a post from the previous subreddit. The app features: Gold Feature Support Secondary Tiles Toast Notifications Detailed for specific users/messages/comment replies Piing Subreddits to...