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Some Redditors say they're walking away after Apollo app shuts down (www.businessinsider.com)
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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] 2 points 1 year ago

I tried the official app 5 or 6 years ago but it really sucked, was way too bright and killed my phone's battery life. Settled for RedReader and never looked back.

RedReader only got better, the Reddit app had some features slowly trickle in years too late, and got worse and had bugs that took ages to fix.

I was using it enough that I would have considered paying for premium or gold if Reddit was to co-operate to add-in API features like poll voting. But with their such antagonistic approach, I started winding down my Reddit usage in late April and ramping up with Lemmy. Despite RedReader being given an exception, I'm leaving it permanently. I'm not posting or commenting anymore.