Apollo founder Christian Selig said he's "heartbroken" about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit's API pricing changes.

Apollo founder Christian Selig said he’s “heartbroken” about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit’s API pricing changes.

  • cybersandwich@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Jeff@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      1 year 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.

    • HamartiogonicEnglish
      8·
      1 year 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.

    • Indie@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year 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.

      • kat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        THEY ARE CHARGING FOR THE APP???

        What alternate reality are they living in?

        • damnYouSun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          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.

    • MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year 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.