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How about adding “pixel pals” link to the settings tab like Apollo had? And we could link it to the app store (on ios ofc)
Unpopular opinion: I feel like Apollo started getting worse once the Pixel Pals were added.
They were cute, for sure, and I understand why he did it, but I noticed a lot more weird bugs that made the app basically unusable some days, and it ended up driving me to another third party app.
I never enabled them, so I never really noticed. I didn’t feel like the app got noticeably worse. If anything, I got more comfortable with Apollo year after year and the old desktop site I was so familiar with was becoming less appealing over time.
I do understand how, after maintaining the same app as his main gig, he would want to work on something else after almost a decade - especially something with mainstream appeal. There are young folks in my family who got Pixel Pals (the standalone app) after seeing their friends have them. That’s huge.
I hope he does come back eventually to make some Fediverse stuff.
I didn't really enable the Pixel Pals either.
However, I definitely noticed more and more bugs that weren't getting fixed, such as formatting glitches and errors connecting to Reddit, and I was also one of the people who got the Ultra Lifetime sale pop-up every 5 minutes last Christmas. Everybody who didn't get that downvoted me to oblivion and called me all sorts of colorful names because I was apparently a "liar" (as well as everybody else who experienced this). That's what made me quit Apollo.
Every update since Pixel Pals came out just seemed to be more icons and Pixel Pal features and no bug fixes.
I don't think Christian was being malicious or anything, but the inability to report bugs because of the rabid fanbase does no good. I've reported bugs in lots of software and never got treated like this elsewhere, even when it is open-source. A lone developer cannot possibly catch all corner cases.