Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo • Hacker News Board

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by halfbrite » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 5:11 AM UTC

fencepost wrote: post #224

What's so sad about this is how easily it could have been avoided. Reddit could have done their equivalent of Musk's blue checkmark push and actually succeeded by simply requiring a paid user account for third party API access. Plans and pricing would have been implementation details to hash out, but they literally had everything they needed for it already in place. Instead they came up with a half-baked approach tha…

> I wish him well.

We all do, but does anyone really believe spez won’t seem to kill it off a year from now?

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by s777 » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 5:14 AM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #90

Oh that's dumb. I forgot to check my inbox before midnight. I had offered Tildes invites and don't have the password to that account (but have been logged in since years, can access the auth token, etc., but reddit doesn't want you to recover from this scenario, so that's gone forever). Well... anyone here needs a Tildes invite?

I'll take an invite please

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by spombg » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 5:14 AM UTC

genocidicbunny wrote: post #123

ryandrake wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like a lot of news today, it’s simultaneously shocking and not surprising. It’s tough to keep a positive attitude. Every week it seem like things that, against the odds turned out to be good, are being deliberately torn down so that a few rich people can get slightly richer. Greed is killing everything nice, and nobody has both the power and willingness to stop it.

More and more I find myself on the side that greed and those who egregiously practice it, need to be excised from humanity with extreme prejudice. Greed should be a short-lived terminal illness.

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Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by groestl » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 5:16 AM UTC

Eeee

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by torsday » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 5:16 AM UTC

throwaway1777 wrote: post #216

Yeah you’re drunk. Apollo was a cash grab and selig admitted as such. That being said no one can give any points to Reddit for how they handled things either.

Creating a great product that makes money isn't a cash grab.

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by AlexandrB » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 5:16 AM UTC

throwaway1777 wrote: post #216

Yeah you’re drunk. Apollo was a cash grab and selig admitted as such. That being said no one can give any points to Reddit for how they handled things either.

I guess you can call "creating a great product that people want to pay for" a "cash grab", but what isn't a cash grab then?

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by OnlyLys » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 5:18 AM UTC

throwaway1777 wrote: post #216

Yeah you’re drunk. Apollo was a cash grab and selig admitted as such. That being said no one can give any points to Reddit for how they handled things either.

>and selig admitted as such

Proof of that happening?

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by codemac » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 5:18 AM UTC

ozr wrote: post #236

dehrmann wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a completely different approach, but maybe you can do web view shenanigans to create an API bridge on devices.

Why work around it? If they want to kill their service, I'd rather watch it happen with a smile than desperately try to save them.

Because reddit is a social phenomenon, not a technological one.

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by spombg » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 5:19 AM UTC

8bitsrule wrote: post #227

GeoCities redux. Corporations don't like communities unless they can profit. One day the Greater Community will arise as a non-profit under the control of its contributers. "The community literally helped this site grow to what it is today by engaging with and creating content, creating communities (sub-reddits), and moderators who assisted in developing those communities for free." -- https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3r…

Wikipedia’s staying power gives me hope that non-profits can succeed in this age of dopamine driven fast clicks

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by UberFly » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 5:19 AM UTC

MBCook wrote: post #22

I’ve long used Apollo to hold an alt account. I just downloaded the official app and logged in. In 3 minutes I deleted it. Ignoring design issues, all of a sudden the official app grabbed ALL Reddit links and if I viewed Reddit in Safari there was an unremovable “Open in the app” banner above the Safari content that couldn’t be removed. No way. Deleted. The last year has just destroyed so much of the value I get out…

Yup, their own app makes Reddit unusable. Thing is, even if their app was great I'd still not use it. I can't stand being in someone's walled garden force fed content like Clockwork Orange.