- cross-posted to:
- apple@kbin.social
- cross-posted to:
- apple@kbin.social
Apollo has been one of my most used apps the past couple years… it’ll be sad saying goodbye.
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It really does just make me so happy when using it. Everything is so slick and beautiful and works exactly like it should. It makes interacting with the huge amounts of content feel manageable. I’m also sad that it’ll be gone.
Hopefully the design can be resurrected in a Lemmy client some day…
Definitely. I’m currently using Mlem, and it does channel the vibe of Apollo in some ways. It’s definitely not as feature-rich, but that’s likely just because it’s fairly new (and in beta).
Oh wow you’re not kidding. Just signed up for the iOS TestFlight and it definitely gives strong Apollo vibes. Looking forward the seeing where this goes, and hopefully it’s a good proof of concept at least as far as what a Lemmy app could bring.
Agreed! There are a lot of features currently missing, but I have high hopes.
Apollo is a great app; I think people like it so much because Christian has always been so engaged with the user community and has (mostly) been responsive to people. I don’t know if I’d go so far as to call it a work of art, and I don’t necessarily agree with all of the monetization limitations that were built in to it, but it is unquestionably one of the apps I’ve used the most over the years and it will be sorely missed.
Christian would have an opportunity to use much of the Apollo code and start over as a lemmy client. It’s too bad the sting is so fresh in his mind. He has built a reputation of a great app and would easily be able to start a small purchase charge for the app and then add features behind a small paywall.
I think that would be great! I’m sure it’s more difficult than it seems, though, to port over the entire backend to Lemmy, especially with its decentralized nature. Also I’m sure Christian is a bit burnt out after the Reddit fiasco, so I can’t fault him for taking a breather.
Definitely easier said than done. I’m in the process of building an app for Lemmy and I’ve made a reddit app in the past and I can confirm the whole backend would need to be reworked along with most of the front end logic. I would love to have Apollo back, but since it doesn’t appear to be happening I’m building my own version. I don’t want to directly ripoff Apollo, but it does so many things so well that it’s beginning to feel more and more like a clone. If you’d like to be a part of it I created a community (c/lemmyapp) where you can find the TestFlight link and provide feedback in the form of bug reports and feature requests. It’s still in Alpha testing so there are a lot of bugs but if you’ve got some features that you’d like to see in a mobile app that aren’t available in others there’s a good chance I’ll add them in. For the stable release
Apollo is definitely my favorite app, and Reddit (was) my favorite site. Lemmy seems like it’ll be able to scratch that itch, so here’s hoping it takes off.
Also greatly looking forward to what Christian does next.
Lemmy is rough around the edges but much better than I expected once I learned how to subscribe, sort how I wanted. Using it definitely makes me realize how amazing Apollo was. I miss simple things like being able to hide what I’ve already viewed.
I will miss Apollo so much and I hope in the future Apollo or something similar to it gets released as a Lemmy client.
Hope he makes a Lemmy version.
What did you like about Apollo? I used ReddPlanet instead. I wasn’t going to pay for Apollo before I could figure out what I was getting and that I would like it. ReddPlanet had everything I wanted and payment was cosmetic and supporting lupeski.
Apollo is similar! iirc the only “functional” feature locked beyond a paywall is submitting posts (which you could argue is a pretty big feature to lock away). But I think the majority of users rarely submit posts, and the “pro” tier was just a one-time $5 payment. I found Apollo very intuitive to use and very minimalistic; there was very little fluff to distract from posts and comments.
To my recollection making posts was never locked behind a paywall - I used Apollo for most of its lifespan without paying for it, but did get Apollo Ultra eventually for notifications.
Submitting posts was definitely a Pro paid feature.
I think it was! See Christian’s website for example. I think it’s easy to forget since it’s a one-time payment and fairly cheap.
Apparently I had Pro + Ultra, I don’t remember how long I had each for. Oh well. I really hope one of the big 3rd party app developers for Reddit turns an eye to Lemmy (or kbin) - this space has real potential and a well-designed app could smooth over some of the current weirdness about discovering other communities in other servers, but the apps are pretty rough.
Apollo is the most used apps across my iPhone/iPad. While I don’t really seem to be missing Reddit, I absolutely miss Apollo. It is jarring to go from using Apollo to Mlem, but I understand that Mlem will only get better with time.