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Apollo founder Christian Selig said he's "heartbroken" about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit's API pricing changes.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I used Reddit for over a decade, and much of that was with Apollo. Not going back purely because of how they treated Christian and the other 3rd party devs

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've said this before elsewhere, but all of the spez BS aside, I used RiF for reddit. To me, that was Reddit. 95% of my time on reddit was through the lens of RiF.

They are effectively getting rid of reddit for me by forcing RiF to shutdown.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Good way of putting it. Their app was so horrible that I went from PAYING and using their app to moving to Apollo. I tried using it after they bought Blue Alien but it got worse and worse and finally I gave up paying and moved. Reddit died with third party useful apps.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Before the APIcalypse, I thought about quitting reddit. Now that my 3rd party app died, quitting has never been easier. I tried to check the site with a mobile browser, but I can’t collapse comments, so that ended up being a very quick visit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I used Apollo and I feel ya. I used to keep the default app installed so I could claim free gifts but it wasn't worth ending up in the official Reddit app on accident while browsing the web :P Yeah, it's that bad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Exactly my scenario. They really fucked the chicken up with the move to charge for API access.

It's amazing how history always finds a way of repeating itself. The ignorance to not acknowledge what happened to digg, and what sent so many to deadit is laughable. I would be very interested to see what traffic looks like now to reddit, and how much of it is coming from their app, which I think they said they will start charging a monthly subscription fee for. That CEO should have the cheese touch after that debacle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Lmao a subscription to use the app

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

THEY ARE CHARGING FOR THE APP???

What alternate reality are they living in?

[–] damnYouSun 6 points 1 year ago

FFS. It doesn't even work half the time.

You'd think that knowing they were going to do this they'd have put some effort into making it work a bit better, but no.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Really a subscription for the basic tier app? That would be madness.

Of course it's madness now that they charge $50/year now for premium. It was paying the highest' tier of Apollo and it was $10/year and actually had features I wanted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

100% agree, hate to see it go down like that but they made their decisions

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah. 16 years here, and as part of some big happenings early on. (RIP I_RAPE_CATS)

Haven’t touched Reddit since Apollo died.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yep, deleted mine yesterday. Their disdain for the mods that provide free labor and for the users in general with their lazy "they'll get over it" attitude was the deal breaker. Fuuuuuck Reddit.