Formerly known as ‘reacttant’ (www.reacttant.com), lurrker is v2 of a web-client built on top of the reddit (www.reddit.com) API. Four years ago we set out to build an application that brought a different feel to browsing reddit content with a single-page-application for quicker traversing of data, a 3-pane reading layout and a more modern approach to the front-end appearance.
While the number of users using that application has continued to grow over the years, development updates and improvements proved to be difficult and time-consuming with the original architecture. After a handful of false-starts, we dedicated resources to re-building the site from the ground-up keeping the same look and feel while adding a handful of requested features - and ultimately rebranded as lurrker.
We first focused on filling in some glaring holes in our functionality that now makes browsing on lurrker much easier. We added infinite scroll to the topics list of a subreddit so you can continuously page through content. We added the common reddit sort filters and the ability to search a subreddit or the reddit api as a whole. We also added user-profile pages...