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Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed

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Re: Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed

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Post by vpEfljFL »

morpheuskafka wrote: post #57
mentos wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I think what makes Apollo great is how closely it integrates with the iOS interface and design language. Its value proposition is that it matches expectations of iOS users and is fast and intuitive on that platform. If you re-wrote it in Electron I think it would become "just another reddit client."

Just to pint out using Electron will be able to allow publish this beautiful application to other systems. Electron not an issue here, vs code is written on it and it's loved text editor for thousands of software engineers which use it every day for several hours.

Re: Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed

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Post by krbzsq »

I rate Apollo highly. Very well-designed, very fast and honestly I won't use reddit in a web browser anymore, specifically because the experience doesn't come close to Apollo. So my hats off to the developer.

That said, one really annoying bug that seems to have shown up since iOS 13, is that on the odd occasion after being on another app and swiping back to Apollo the swipe down to refresh feature just doesn't seem to appear or it freezes when it does appear and forces me to restart the app.

Just curious if anyone else has had this issue?

Re: Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed

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Post by cerberusss »

bnt wrote: post #15
blackbrokkoli wrote: post #12

In 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…

I think the age of a mindfull, usefull Reddit are gone. It’s been trolls and crap content for years now, and it’s only getting worse IMHO. I think at some point the usefull, good communities will migrate somewhere else in the coming years

Trolls and crap content? Aren't you being overly broad here? I find the r/swift and r/iOSProgramming communities pretty informative. And the r/ProgrammerHumor is good for a smile.

https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/ https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/

Re: Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed

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Post by saagarjha »

mentos wrote: post #53
iamthatis wrote: post #35

Earlier 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…

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?

Then it wouldn’t work on iOS.

Re: Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed

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Post by saagarjha »

morpheuskafka wrote: post #57
mentos wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I think what makes Apollo great is how closely it integrates with the iOS interface and design language. Its value proposition is that it matches expectations of iOS users and is fast and intuitive on that platform. If you re-wrote it in Electron I think it would become "just another reddit client."

Apollo actually ditches native components in certain places and tries to reimplement their behavior, getting it wrong in some places. It drives me insane enough to use an entirely different app :(

Re: Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed

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Post by h3daz »

iamthatis wrote: post #35
blackbrokkoli wrote: post #12

In 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…

Thank you so much for this app. I transitioned from the official one because GIFs were just not working at all. The GIF navigation and post hiding on scroll made me upgrade. If there's just one thing I miss from the official app it's when I'm on my feed and I click "posts" again, it doesn't scroll to the top.

If you considered this small addition that would be fantastic!

Re: Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed

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Post by saagarjha »

cerberusss wrote: post #63
bnt wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the age of a mindfull, usefull Reddit are gone. It’s been trolls and crap content for years now, and it’s only getting worse IMHO. I think at some point the usefull, good communities will migrate somewhere else in the coming years

Trolls and crap content? Aren't you being overly broad here? I find the r/swift and r/iOSProgramming communities pretty informative. And the r/ProgrammerHumor is good for a smile. https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/ https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/

ProgrammerHumor used to be so good but I think it reached the front page too many times so now it’s just jokes for people for a passing interest in computers and bad volume sliders. I can’t stand being there anymore…

Re: Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed

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Post by skunkworker »

rhlsthrm wrote: post #69

Apollo is cool, but I found myself going back to Narwhal after trying out both for a while. I love the comments on top of the media view for Narwhal, and Apollo hasn't matched that experience. The app looks awesome though, either way they are both amazing apps.

Also on narwhal still, there are some issues with YouTube videos but it’s the best way I’ve found for long text posts.
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