It’s a sad day.
I just deleted the app.
Starting to delete all my Reddit accounts now too.
I’m so tired of poor managers ruining good products.
Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo
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#282They’re passing up an interesting opportunity to compete.
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#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It's both and the technological element is laughably easy to recreate. The social element takes time but Reddit never had any meaningful control over that anyway.
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#284where's the long live apollo part?
Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo
#285There will be a spiritual successor though, for kbin/Lemmy, called Artemis: https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp Right now it's in a closed beta, and the size of the closed beta is increasing slowly through the end of the month. The goal is for it to be public around the start of August. That kbin magazine has a link to a signup sheet for the closed beta. (disclosure? I was an alpha tester for it, and so far it looks AMA…
> What is Artemis using for building its user interface? > The Artemis UI is built with React Native + Typescript Sorry, this is DoA for me. This is not a spiritual successor. Biggest USP of Apollo was its clean, native and thoughtful UI, not cross platform UI bloatware
I had conceded to the fact that I might be one of a very small group that feels like this about React Native, Typescript and native apps. I also did not consider that I would be in that group along with the_lucifer.
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#286I remember signing up for Reddit as a college freshman. I was a digg user and joined Reddit in the aftermath of that fiasco. I sometimes laugh looking over my post history for the past decade plus. If you read the posts linearly, you can trace my evolution from a kid arguing passionately over politics and culture (things he didn't really know much about), to a more mature young adult who rarely waded into discussions…
As a Reddit user I'm a bit puzzled by these death or Reddit posts. I use Reddit by going to reddit.com with the old settings and it works just the same. Does the death of some third party app really matter? It would be like saying HN is gone because some 3rd party app on it that I've never heard of is gone. Honestly a bit puzzled.
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#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are the apps being charged for api access and not the people using them?
I can't think of any software that the end-user pays API fees or even supplies their own API key/token. I've only ever needed to supply that when interacting with APIs directly in a developer setting. That, or open-source projects that require API access from some 3rd party.
Spotify does. Can't use any 3rd party apps without having a premium account.
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#288I am still somewhat shocked that they went through with this. I built a Reddit API[1] alternative as a form of protest, they responded by blocking my personal Reddit account. Very sad what Reddit has become. 1 - https://api.reddiw.com
They banned your personal account?! Do you have the ability to edit or access your old comments? Is it a shadowban, read-only, or a full block?
They “permanently suspended” it. It appears I have read-only access to my comments/subreddits but cannot comment/upvote/access my subreddits moderator tools.
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#289I remember signing up for Reddit as a college freshman. I was a digg user and joined Reddit in the aftermath of that fiasco. I sometimes laugh looking over my post history for the past decade plus. If you read the posts linearly, you can trace my evolution from a kid arguing passionately over politics and culture (things he didn't really know much about), to a more mature young adult who rarely waded into discussions…
Newsgroups > Yahoo Clubs > Yahoo Groups > Digg > Reddit > the next great "online community" good enough that you come to rely on it, which of course means enturdification is right around the corner, sure as turds.
Newsgroups > Yahoo Clubs > Yahoo Groups > Digg > Reddit
I recognise that journey!
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#290> the death of Apollo also goes the metaphorical death of all the best parts (IMO) of the internet: open-source, creativity, entrepreneurial spirit. It died years ago for me. I don't want go get too nostalgic, but it depresses how amazing the early internet was compared to what it is today. The early years of web 2.0 (2002 - 2007ish) were the golden age imo. Then Facebook and the smart phone came along... From that p…
boomers built the internet, my dude