Apollo for Reddit is shutting down
Apollo for Reddit is shutting down
whelp, there it is
FYI, a lemmy iOS app, Mlem, is in active development, and we hope to be at 1.0 by July 1. It's heavily inspired by Apollo, but, obviously, with changes for lemmy.
Stay tuned and subscribe to c/mlemapp for updates!
Edit: I want to note that, since one of the biggest sticking points with 3rd-party apps has been both accessibility for the blind and deaf and mod tools, they're both on our minds as we design the interface. Getting both right will, of course, take time, but we want everyone to know that we fully intend to make our app usable for everyone.
How do you get to the point where you're accusing Christian of blackmailing you in this situation? You're the 500lb gorilla who's driving all these app developers out of business. Even if you really feel like these app developers have been free riding on your largesse, how do you have so little perspective to be this petty and spiteful?
It is sad to see an amazing app become rendered useless due to some companies greed. They were not even being reasonable with pricing nor did they really give the dev time to figure out what to do.
I really hope that everyone leaves reddit and comes to the fediverse. Mastodon had a huge boost and it completely replaced twitter for me. I am sure Lemmy can do the same.
This is a big reason why I'm here as of today. I just can't in good conscience support what Reddit is doing. I've been an Apollo user since it launched out of beta. I jumped at the chance to have paid Christian twice for both the original premium upgrade. And then the Ultra one later down the road. I just adore the app. When I switched to Android I still found myself missing it terribly. Since switching back to iOS. I've averaged 15-20 hours per week just using Apollo.
End of an era :(
If you're here and you have the technical skills, please consider running your own instance. Beehaw and lemmy.ml are getting slammed.
This is really sad. I rarely posted on Reddit, and I mostly use it as an information source, but Apollo is how I mostly interacted with the platform, and when I did post, it was always through Apollo.
One silver lining is I found Beehaw as a result, and I like interacting and posting here, so I guess... thanks for being shit Reddit!
original post by Apollo's dev: https://tedd.it/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/_/
@mint
Yeah, it is a disappointing thing what Reddit has done. Also hello to everyone at /c/Tecnology Beehaw.org on Lemmy from Fosstodon.org on Mastodon. :)Begun, the migration has.
Here from the dev himself: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/?sort=confidence
Shows already that the blackout protest will change nothing.
Going to miss using Apollo. Great design and Christian built it with the user experience first.
And with it goes me using Reddit, too. The official app is just sooooo bad and I barely check Reddit on my computer.
The comments from FlyingLaserTurtle in particular were just AWFUL. Just straight up gaslighting.
In case anyone wants to delete all their reddit comment and posts before leaving, I used this nice little product that did it automatically for me:
That was the final straw for me too. Currently purging all my accounts from Reddit now. I look forward to being a part of this community.
I'll use rif until the last day, but i've been spending much more of that time on reddit here, and less time on social media in general.
I'm honestly, sad for the developers who can no longer afford to keep their passion projects going, that's awful and fuck reddit for that. But personally, this is such a positive change I need in my life as a consumer of social media.
Holy shit. I just loaded up the op from the apolo sub and read through it. Then i made the mistake of attempting to read the comments. Absolutely impossible. Its like opening a flood gate and letting the ocean poor in!
So it begins...
this is very sad, such a great app.
Gonna have to bring some popcorn for this.
Really sucks for the dev, as he does seems to be (or had been) really invested in what he was working on.
I feel for Christian. This is awful. I've enjoyed his app for years now, along with BaconReader and Relay when I used Android. It is incredibly disheartening to see the slander that he faces, given how forthcoming he's been with Reddit administration.
