Huffman is using the same strategy as his idols; just blatantly lie. It's far harder to refute lies than it is to lie.

Thunder feels pretty close. Turn on compact mode + thumbnails on the right and it's visually almost identical to how I had Relay set up. It even has the short swipe to upvote, long swipe to downvote actions.

https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder