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Christian (Apollo Dev) on contributing to Voyager (reddthat.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
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[–] 64 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

On the one hand, nice jab. Unfair since he wasn’t interested, but get his jollies where he can, I guess.

On the other, he knew longer than most that Reddit was done. He can pivot to Lemmy at any time.

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  • [–] [S] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Based on this https://reddthat.com/post/8711097 I don’t think he has any interest in Lemmy

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Thanks for the link. I didn’t think he’s in the least interested in Lemmy. Unsure why he’s upset that someone else took the ball that he wasn’t interested in and ran with it.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Think about it. If you’d given so much of yourself over to crafting and honing an app like Apollo over the years and all that happened, happened… would you not be a tad deflated and exasperated?

    I don’t blame him. Let him cool off for about 5 years. He’ll see it as a tribute one day.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    You're right on all counts. It really is a tribute to Apollo's design, and I hope he sees it that way someday.

    While I'd be exasperated, I'd like to think that I'd also be mature enough to realize that Voyager simply does what I didn't want to do. I'd like to think that I wouldn't be pissy about it. I might be wrong, but I'd like to think it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    100% this

    He was also the voice of the fight against the API changes, which I’m sure took a toll too. His reputation was dragged through the mud and wild accusations thrown his way. He probably wants nothing to do with app dev, let alone app dev for a Reddit clone.

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  • [+] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] [S] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    See here

    Also this comment.

    I don’t think he is planning on making a big deal out of it or anything, but he does clearly not really like it.

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  • [+] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    He needs to do his business or kindly remove his cheeks from the throne. I'm disappointed with his comments even though they don't concern me in the least. I don't think i rver got my lifetime/platinum fee back, be calling Apple soon to get that cleared up if it isn't too late

    Edit: i needed an extra $40 so this works out perfectly

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Because there's a stark difference between "playing ball" as it were, and essentially trying to make an identical ball without permission.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    the old ball was taken away, a jab is fair, but so was keeping the ball alive.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think people on this site are a bit too used to open source projects you can just fork and use based on their license. This is not the case here.

    All that being said I don't think Christian is going to take any negative actions against the project; if he was going to, he probably would have done so sooner.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Please explain what actions he could take?

    Unless someone stole his source or assets there is no action to be taken.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think people on this site are a bit too used to open source projects you can just fork and use based on their license. This is not the case here.

    But the voyager dev has not seen or used apollo's code to build voyager. He has done everything from scratch only taking heavy inspiration from Apollo. Christian has helped indirectly by being the one to develop the UI which serves as inspiration but considering that voyager is not a competitor to apollo, in my opinion he has no right to be outraged at the fact that it is a looklike. He is free to not contribute to voyager and it is true that he has already contributed a lot indirectly but him getting angry or upset at the fact that the UI is pretty similar makes no sense to me.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And a lot of that UI was requested and suggested by redditors along the development of the app. Christian said as much in many of his posts.

    Also much of Apollo was influenced by the Alien Blue UI that Reddit had already taken away (and how I got a bunch of years worth of free gold).

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