Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

#1

Post by bears-n-beets » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 11:15 PM UTC

I was actively using the app on my phone and it suddenly crashed at 4:10pm PDT. I thought it was just my phone acting up but then I realized that’s about 12am UTC. With the death of Apollo also goes the metaphorical death of all the best parts (IMO) of the internet: open-source, creativity, entrepreneurial spirit. Sad day. I guess I’ll go outside now.

Edit: sorry, Apollo wasn’t open source. That’s what happens when I make a post while two beers deep I guess. Hopefully you get the general spirit of what I was trying to convey.

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#2

Post by smoldesu » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 11:17 PM UTC

> With the death of Apollo also goes the metaphorical death of all the best parts (IMO) of the internet: open-source,

Apollo was Open Source?

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#3

Post by ortusdux » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 11:20 PM UTC

Sync is also dead. They just sent out a push notification: "Sync for reddit had shutdown. Thank you for using Sync. It's been one hell of a ride."

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#4

Post by bears-n-beets » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 11:21 PM UTC

smoldesu wrote: post #2

> With the death of Apollo also goes the metaphorical death of all the best parts (IMO) of the internet: open-source, Apollo was Open Source?

Sorry, that was definitely the wrong phrase to use. I was reaching for a term I couldn’t find - something that conveys the concept of “freedom” on the internet - like the ability to leverage an existing tool/service and build upon it and make it better?

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#5

Post by Wherecombinator » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 11:32 PM UTC

I pretty much only like Reddit for niche communities and fighting shit google results.

The latter is a necessity but for the former there’s other communities to satiate my needs. It’s just that it’s a bit of a fragmented way of diving into my interests.

Is there such a thing as a forum aggregator?

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Post by bears-n-beets » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 11:39 PM UTC

Wherecombinator wrote: post #5

I pretty much only like Reddit for niche communities and fighting shit google results. The latter is a necessity but for the former there’s other communities to satiate my needs. It’s just that it’s a bit of a fragmented way of diving into my interests. Is there such a thing as a forum aggregator?

Where are these other communities? I can’t find them. And no, I don’t count Discord as an acceptable replacement. Googling for old-school forums has been pretty fruitless for me thus far as Google is basically useless without appending site:reddit.com these days (the supreme irony of that…)

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#7

Post by jmclnx » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 11:41 PM UTC

I am confused, 12:00am UTC is 8:00pm EDT. So UTC 12:00 should be 11:00 pm PDF. It is 7:40 EDT as I type this on June 30

EDIT: was in junethack while typing this, yes 5pm PDT is 12 UTC :)

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#8

Post by x3n0ph3n3 » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 11:43 PM UTC

Reddit is Fun is also gone.

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#9

Post by tspike » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 11:46 PM UTC

RIP Bacon Reader.

Reddit, you’ve burned so much goodwill.

I’ve been an enthusiastic user for over 14 years. Now I’m planning to delete my content.

At one point recently, I got excited about applying for an engineering leadership position with you, but this debacle has made me realize your senior leadership is not who I want to be reporting to.

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#10

Post by IAmGraydon » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 11:48 PM UTC

Bye, Apollo. I kind of feel like a drug has been taken away from me. It’s is going to take a bit to adjust to not using Reddit on my phone, as I refuse to use their app.