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Some Redditors say they're walking away after Apollo app shuts down (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Apollo founder Christian Selig said he's "heartbroken" about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit's API pricing changes.

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[–] 5 points 3 years ago (8 children)

I used Reddit for over a decade, and much of that was with Apollo. Not going back purely because of how they treated Christian and the other 3rd party devs

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Before the APIcalypse, I thought about quitting reddit. Now that my 3rd party app died, quitting has never been easier. I tried to check the site with a mobile browser, but I can’t collapse comments, so that ended up being a very quick visit.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I used Apollo and I feel ya. I used to keep the default app installed so I could claim free gifts but it wasn't worth ending up in the official Reddit app on accident while browsing the web :P Yeah, it's that bad.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Good way of putting it. Their app was so horrible that I went from PAYING and using their app to moving to Apollo. I tried using it after they bought Blue Alien but it got worse and worse and finally I gave up paying and moved. Reddit died with third party useful apps.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Exactly my scenario. They really fucked the chicken up with the move to charge for API access.

    It's amazing how history always finds a way of repeating itself. The ignorance to not acknowledge what happened to digg, and what sent so many to deadit is laughable. I would be very interested to see what traffic looks like now to reddit, and how much of it is coming from their app, which I think they said they will start charging a monthly subscription fee for. That CEO should have the cheese touch after that debacle.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Really a subscription for the basic tier app? That would be madness.

    Of course it's madness now that they charge $50/year now for premium. It was paying the highest' tier of Apollo and it was $10/year and actually had features I wanted.

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