All the good things must come to an end.

And where it ends a new life begins.

Christian closed the sub for a while until everyone’s emotions settle down. The sub will be back at some point, even if the app isn’t. :)

ETA his post about it in case you can’t see it:

Hey all,

Almost a week since Apollo closed and it’s been such a weird adjustment, I really miss coming here and talking to you folks about feedback and cool ideas for Apollo going forward, and scribbling down ideas on how I could make them happen. I thought Friday would mean things would calm down, and they have a fair bit, but it was surprising and nice to get almost a second wave of really nice comments from people saying how much Apollo meant to them over the years.

(I started on app development because the thought of being able to jump on the bus and one day hopefully see someone using something I built felt like the coolest thing imaginable, and the idea that so many people used and loved Apollo really really makes me smile.)

I’m not really looking to come onto Reddit at the moment, and a few friends have indicated the subreddit at times can skew a bit over the top with anger about Reddit’s actions at times. Trust me, I totally get the frustration, but we’ve had a “no dumping on other apps” rule in this subreddit forever for a reason: we want to be nice people, and in the case where others are maybe disappointing us, be the bigger people.

That being said, I don’t really want to have to keep a keen eye over this subreddit, nor do I expect the other moderators here to, so I think for the time being – until maybe emotions settle a bit more and this place can turn into a nice flowering meadow of memes and reminiscing – I’m going to set the subreddit to restricted so no further posts can be made, you can still talk in existing posts or here if you so please. Heck, tell me something fun you’ve done over the past week, or give me a game recommendation to play (I should be finishing ToTK soon).

(Hopefully this is the one subreddit Reddit is okay with the moderators changing things, at least for a bit. :p)

Anyway, that’s it from me. If you want to hear more of my musings or keep in touch outside of Reddit, I’m on Mastodon, and Twitter. Per request, I also added a bunch more designs to Apollo’s merch store, and the promo code “RIPAPOLLO” will still work for a few more days.

- Christian