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Re: Apollo Back end just made public

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Post by Aachen »

andremedeiros wrote: post #4

Hi all! I wrote this code, and for educational purposes, I’d be more than happy to answer any questions. A gentle reminder that the whole history is here for show. This is very vulnerable — you can see the times I was in a rush, or when I took my time. You’ll find my mistakes. Either way, all I ask is please be kind. I know there are 50 things I could have done better, but this is a product of the reality at the time…

Maybe a description of what we're looking at in the Readme would be helpful. Why wouldn't the Apollo client just directly call reddit? Or does it partially do that and this server component is additional for certain functionality? What functionality does this offer?

Re: Apollo Back end just made public

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Post by rovr138 »

andremedeiros wrote: post #7
rovr138 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s hard to put oneself out there like that. Christian is very visible in the community, but I want to say thank you to you too. Thank you for all the work you did! This made a lot of our experiences great.

This right here is why I did it. To see a friend succeed, and to help make a community happier <3

This sentiment is what made Reddit a great community for smaller and specific subs.

It’s just people talking around a topic and helping each other. Subreddit mods doing everything they can to keep their area clean for people reading. I’ve been on Reddit over for over a decade and this is the power behind it. Just wanting to help and bring good member.

Thank you Andre. For your work and commitment to Christian, Apollo, and the community.

Re: Apollo Back end just made public

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Post by digdigdag »

wkat4242 wrote: post #9
spiderfarmer wrote: post #2

All this backlash is going to kill Reddit. It will take a thousand little cuts for sure, but it started the moment they announced their ludicrous pricing.

I wonder.. The very same thing hardly seems to have hurt Twitter.

If Digg is of any indication, it takes a series of negligent and greed-driven actions to scuttle a social media platform, but it is possible.

Reddit has been more or less re-inventing itself for their asinine IPO aspirations, and in doing so it has moved to closed source code, redesigned their interface, adjusted content policies to court advertisers, and now they're finally going after the crowd of enthusiasts who depend on features that Reddit has failed and/or declined to implement.

This all reeks of venture capitalist sabotage and it's the very thing that ultimately killed off Digg.

Re: Apollo Back end just made public

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Post by eterm »

gtsteve wrote: post #18
spiderfarmer wrote: post #2

All this backlash is going to kill Reddit. It will take a thousand little cuts for sure, but it started the moment they announced their ludicrous pricing.

I don't think it will. It'll IPO just fine, make their shareholders wealthy and become another millquetoast advertiser friendly walled garden for your average internet user while the jilted original users go and find another platform, which will in turn IPO just fine, make their shareholders wealthy and the cycle repeats forever. The average internet user by the way, is statistically not you reading this, doesn't rea…

I think this captures how I feel, which is an odd sense of mourning.

It's not that I haven't known for a long time now that reddit isn't the site it used to be, it's that this episode in particular has put that in such focus I can't ignore it.

So now I feel a sense of loss for the reddit of old, even if it hasn't really been such for a long time anyway.

Reddit itself will carry on fine, and perhaps get even stronger with a tighter control over content. Efforts to make a federated alternative are doomed.

Re: Apollo Back end just made public

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Post by rjh29 »

gtsteve wrote: post #18
spiderfarmer wrote: post #2

All this backlash is going to kill Reddit. It will take a thousand little cuts for sure, but it started the moment they announced their ludicrous pricing.

I don't think it will. It'll IPO just fine, make their shareholders wealthy and become another millquetoast advertiser friendly walled garden for your average internet user while the jilted original users go and find another platform, which will in turn IPO just fine, make their shareholders wealthy and the cycle repeats forever. The average internet user by the way, is statistically not you reading this, doesn't rea…

I don't think it will because there's no solid alternative. If/when there is, and the most active users - the ones contributing the content and moderating the comments - start leaving, then it will turn into an empty husk of itself and die like Digg did, even if it does have millions of readers.

Re: Apollo Back end just made public

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Post by pkos98 »

wkat4242 wrote: post #9
spiderfarmer wrote: post #2

All this backlash is going to kill Reddit. It will take a thousand little cuts for sure, but it started the moment they announced their ludicrous pricing.

I wonder.. The very same thing hardly seems to have hurt Twitter.

To generalize, Twitter relies on celebrities for traffic.

Reddie relies more on genuine content and less personal brand (as you are subbed to subreddits and not public users, mostly)

Re: Apollo Back end just made public

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Post by yosito »

GitHub repo link, in case Reddit deletes the thread: https://github.com/christianselig/apollo-backend

Interestingly, this seems to just be a proof of concept, and the repo is archived. While the developer of the Apollo front end is getting screwed in this whole debacle, this seems to me like an opportunity. He could literally build an alternate Reddit back end (ok, pay someone to do it, if he doesn't want to do it himself), switch Apollo to use that API instead, and get an instant network of hundreds of thousands of Apollo users. A mass migration from Reddit to a new Apollo back end seems like an amazing way to start a new social news website.

Re: Apollo Back end just made public

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Post by interestica »

trollied wrote: post #8

There's a Reddit CEO AMA later today: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/144ho2x/join_our_ce... Can't see it being anything other than a PR disaster for them, unless they change their stance.

For this being such an important moment for the site, it’s absurd that the link they announced didn’t even have a set time. And they haven’t added one.

Re: Apollo Back end just made public

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Post by irisgrunn »

andremedeiros wrote: post #4

Hi all! I wrote this code, and for educational purposes, I’d be more than happy to answer any questions. A gentle reminder that the whole history is here for show. This is very vulnerable — you can see the times I was in a rush, or when I took my time. You’ll find my mistakes. Either way, all I ask is please be kind. I know there are 50 things I could have done better, but this is a product of the reality at the time…

That's just the reality of writing code, we all make mistakes and they haunt us all :)
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