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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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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
Hell yeah. 16 years here, and as part of some big happenings early on. (RIP I_RAPE_CATS)
Haven’t touched Reddit since Apollo died.
I’ve said this before elsewhere, but all of the spez BS aside, I used RiF for reddit. To me, that was Reddit. 95% of my time on reddit was through the lens of RiF.
They are effectively getting rid of reddit for me by forcing RiF to shutdown.
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.
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.
100% agree, hate to see it go down like that but they made their decisions
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.
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.
THEY ARE CHARGING FOR THE APP???
What alternate reality are they living in?
FFS. It doesn’t even work half the time.
You’d think that knowing they were going to do this they’d have put some effort into making it work a bit better, but no.
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.
Lmao a subscription to use the app
Yep, deleted mine yesterday. Their disdain for the mods that provide free labor and for the users in general with their lazy “they’ll get over it” attitude was the deal breaker. Fuuuuuck Reddit.
I haven’t willingly been back since the 12th. Shithead CEOs aren’t going to profit off my contributions. If everyone did the same it would evaporate overnight
Same
I don’t know about everyone but I am the same
I got a Reddit notification for this post while browsing this post. Time to turn off notifications!
Speaking of notifications, that menu used to be just for comment responses. Nowadays Reddit is using it to push me some “popular” posts I couldn’t care less about.
Same here. I had every notifications toggle switched off but direct messages and I still kept getting “recommended” posts. It’s basically malware at that point lol.
With the 3rd party apps I didn’t get exposed to any of this garbage, but now that I have to use the browser, I can’t avoid the tsunami of anti-user features. Quitting Reddit has never been easier.
I ran a crack on Apollo, so I’m still using it for now, but I will never use Reddit in a way that gives them ad revenue.
Looks like I’m from the minority of people who browsed Reddit on Firefox Android. Although I lost nothing, I like the smaller cohesive community feeling of Lemmy
used to use reddit sync… deleted my reddit account now. shame, it was a really active site, but this is a good equivalent and it won’t get spezzed or eloned. I can just move server if I feel like it.
If I didn’t have a subreddit to moderate, I would walk away now that I can’t use apollo.
Reddit directly inspired the creation of the instance I’m on with that shitshow.
I did have a sub to moderate. Not a massive community, only about 2.5K but I have no interest in staying a part of a website whose actions I find so shitty.
I closed my account last night.
In a way, I feel more free now - had an 11 year old reddit account and used Alien blue, then Apollo. I got so stagnant in consuming media that I ended up not contributing since everything I would’ve said had already been posted. But seeing the smaller growing communities across Lemmy makes me excited to actually contribute
deleted my account on Sunday. never going back.
This is not news. Please don’t post these ‘extremely slow news cycle’ shit articles. Everyone who is here already knows this and has had it repeated to them ad absurdum.
This article is about as informative as ‘Ted Cruz is a bad candidate’ ‘Random people are mad at rich folks’ or ‘water is wet’
Dumb question. I’ve been off reddit and here for about a month. Today 7-2 I opened my boost app and infinity app and noticed new posts. I thought all the api apps were shutting down 6-30?
Infinity’s dev said the app would still be usable for sometimes until a new update pass it into a subscription plan.
Thank you for your reply. So infinity will continue to support reddit until further notice?
Thank you. I haven’t been on there for a month I was just curious. Am using wefwef now and love it. I hope to see the Lemmy community grow so there is more to enjoy like Reddit has been for the last 10 years for me. I’m going to miss it as a resource but I’ll be ok. Happy 4th.
You’re welcome ! Been on reddit for like 6 or 7 years maybe ? But just a big lurkers, I find Lemmy and smaller instance a good opportunity to invest yourself more in the community as there isn’t a lot of users (for now). Happy 4th too !
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I’m not an Apollo user but still quit reddit because of the disgusting handling not only of third party app but also of the mods and users. Reddit isn’t deserving any of my time anymore. So far I’m enjoying lemmy and hope it stays free of corporate greed!
Left as soon as Slide stopped working.
I havent gone back since I’ve made my account. I’ve blocked reddit.com at the DNS level on my network and I’m avoiding the platform. I like the updates about the situation here but Honestly it would be amazing if they could mirror posts instead of link the original source since half of the posts just expect you to visit the r/sub it happened in which I refuse to do.
