Does it show ads?
Apollo dev here, no it doesn't, not sure what some people are talking about.
Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yo, Apollo dev here. FWIW there's no team, just me. To answer some of these, Apollo was created well before the Reddit redesign, I started working on it back in 2014. I'm not sure I 100% understand the criticism though. Inviting you to scroll through an app is a pretty normal thing, isn't it? What's the alternative? I'm gathering you'd prefer more of a comments-focused experience rather than one focused around the po…
> posts have always been paramount and what attract people to the site, even though the discussions are great too FWIW, the comments are the main reason I go to any social media site (Reddit and HN included).
I'd probably same the same for me too, but I think what draws in the average person is the posts on Reddit more than anything, even if the comments are also gems.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yo, Apollo dev here. FWIW there's no team, just me. To answer some of these, Apollo was created well before the Reddit redesign, I started working on it back in 2014. I'm not sure I 100% understand the criticism though. Inviting you to scroll through an app is a pretty normal thing, isn't it? What's the alternative? I'm gathering you'd prefer more of a comments-focused experience rather than one focused around the po…
I love apollo! Only 1 problem and it constantly annoys me. Surprised nobody else has mentioned it: Why does the comment and post body hide when you single tap? I am scrolling through a long post and my slow scroll registers as a tap. Now it’s hidden. Tap again and I lose my spot.
I think you're talking about two separate things, it collapses when you tap because… well that kinda makes sense, there's a button to tap to collapse on the website so I just made the tap target bigger, there's not much else use for a tap. The second thing where slow scrolling can register as a tap and thus collapse it… yeah that's annoying as hell, I know what you're talking about and I'm working to fix it.
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#105Apollo might be awful, but it can't be worse than reddit on the iOS browser, which they deliberately hobble by constantly asking you to switch to app, and logging you out.
Now, if this app removed duplicates of stories and pics that I had seen, that would be great.
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Incredible work really oozes polish and intuitive design. Have you been chipping away at this since 2014 or did something change in your motivation recently where you decided to complete it? What would your reaction be to someone suggesting a rewrite in Electron so you could achieve crossplatform support?
Started working on it in 2014 then moving to full time in 2015 when I graduated university, then in late 2017 finally released it. :D So been full time about 4.5 years at this point. Electron wouldn't be a great idea since it doesn't work on iOS. React Native would be something to consider, but I've never been super impressed by any of the results (and it comes with a bunch of issues in and of itself, and to my knowl…
>Started working on it in 2014 then moving to full time in 2015 when I graduated university, then in late 2017 finally released it. :D So been full time about 4.5 years at this point.
Out of curiosity, when did you work at Apple? Your website says "built by a former Apple employee", but it seems you've been full-time on this app for most of your post-college years.
Great app though, I use it :)
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yo, Apollo dev here. FWIW there's no team, just me. To answer some of these, Apollo was created well before the Reddit redesign, I started working on it back in 2014. I'm not sure I 100% understand the criticism though. Inviting you to scroll through an app is a pretty normal thing, isn't it? What's the alternative? I'm gathering you'd prefer more of a comments-focused experience rather than one focused around the po…
> posts have always been paramount and what attract people to the site, even though the discussions are great too FWIW, the comments are the main reason I go to any social media site (Reddit and HN included).
Is Reddit social media? Nobody on there knows who I really am. I try to not post any personally identifying information (and even post purposefully misleading information). In my mind it is just interacting with people online or having an online community that defines social media. It is knowing who the people you are interacting with are in real life.
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#108In my opinion Apollo retains the biggest flaw of the reddit redesign, which is sad: By making the post body, and especially pictures, the first class citizen you incentivize all the wrong things: * It is inviting to mindlessly scroll * Attracting karma is paramount: The game is "upvote this in the 2 seconds I am spending scrolling past it or not" * This in turn incentivizes shallow posts, strong, polarizing messages…
Yo, Apollo dev here. FWIW there's no team, just me. To answer some of these, Apollo was created well before the Reddit redesign, I started working on it back in 2014. I'm not sure I 100% understand the criticism though. Inviting you to scroll through an app is a pretty normal thing, isn't it? What's the alternative? I'm gathering you'd prefer more of a comments-focused experience rather than one focused around the po…
As an early and ongoing Apollo user, this is a fantastic app, highly recommended, including all the premium/ultimate/lifetime whatevers. And the periodic swag offerings are great too.
That said, I keep wondering when the iPad design mentioned what seems like ‘years’ ago is coming.
I keep hoping for something like Hack for HN that takes what’s currently a waste of screen width when using Apollo in landscape on iPad Pro (posts take 1/2 screen width, with 1/4 screen width margins on each side, putting the posts just out of reach of your thumbs when holding sides of ipad), and instead puts that list of posts on the left 1/4, and shows comments for a selected post on the right 3/4.
// Separately, for image post subreddits, like /r/EarthPorn/, really should have a mode to simply view photos scaled to full screen and swipe left/right to prior/next photo post, with a tap to see the post title and vote UI as an overlay, push up to go into photo + comments mode.
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#109antenna is still my favorite reddit client.
the ui is simple and fast. gestures are intuitive.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/antenna-client-for-reddit/id57...
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Started working on it in 2014 then moving to full time in 2015 when I graduated university, then in late 2017 finally released it. :D So been full time about 4.5 years at this point. Electron wouldn't be a great idea since it doesn't work on iOS. React Native would be something to consider, but I've never been super impressed by any of the results (and it comes with a bunch of issues in and of itself, and to my knowl…
>Started working on it in 2014 then moving to full time in 2015 when I graduated university, then in late 2017 finally released it. :D So been full time about 4.5 years at this point. Out of curiosity, when did you work at Apple? Your website says "built by a former Apple employee", but it seems you've been full-time on this app for most of your post-college years. Great app though, I use it :)
"In the summer of 2014 during my Computer Science degree I was lucky enough to intern at Apple as engineer on the Enterprise App Development team in Cupertino (long way from Eastern Canada), where I learned an absolute ton from some crazy smart people."
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/cfnfu8/my_names_chris...