Christian has released a final update to Apollo with the option to opt out of the refund. I urge everybody that was happy with his contribution to our community to do so since he will have to refund out of his own pocket. And yes, this was for an entire year of the app, but he did I no way know that Reddit was going to change the pricing beforehand when he even asked them what the future for Reddit and Apollo would look like back in the beginning of the year and apparently Reddit said that there wouldn’t be any major changes in 2023!?
Also, the amazingly talented artists of the Apollo icons have contributed with good bye wallpapers that you can get for a donation ❤️
And u/spez tried slandering this man as greedy and selfish. Utterly despicable.
In the grand scheme of history, this is nothing. But it’s hard not to feel like I’m living through a huge moment.
The news, connections, answers, laughter, sadness, shock, joy–all of it–that this app delivered to me will be fondly cherished.
I posted this because for history this might be small but for Christian this is life changing. He devoted himself to giving us top notch service as an app developer so we could interact with our loved community in ways Reddit wasn’t able to facilitate. He was quick to answer comments on the subreddit and would implement things we asked for in a reasonable time.
I was so impressed with his work and was sad to hear how u/spez treated him. I just hope we can give him a good bye gift and send him off knowing that the community is grateful.
Without a doubt, it’s got to be surreal for him. I can’t even imagine.
I’m going to miss apollo. Too bad I only first heard about it around a month ago. It’s a really good app.
I’m currently trying out the app wefwef which is inspired by Apollo for the fediverse. I’m surprised how much better it makes browsing the fediverse feel compared to native browser sites. This gave me a lot of hope for the future here. I’m also a fan of the Memmy App which I’m also testing!
Thank you for the recommendation. I’ll check it out!
You know, if he could find a way to re-hook Apollo over to one or more Lemmy instances, I think Apollo would immediately become the default Lemmy client for a whole lot of people. What’s more, I expect that a fairly large subset of those people still haven’t even heard about Lemmy yet, and would suddenly be creating new accounts. That would also help to incentivize people to grant his request, and turn down the refund.
Just a thought. I know there would by necessity be an awful lot of work involved to make such a thing happen… but it would probably be worth it.
Numerous people have asked, Christian’s reply is that he’s not looking at it right now. Honestly, his replies sound like he’s going to take a day long nap on the 1st before thinking about anything else.
I kind’a wouldn’t blame him if he did that. The level of vitriol aimed at him in the comment sections of various articles that I’ve read on this topic is positively staggering. People can be really awful sometimes… and people who are seemingly uninformed and/or misinformed, even more so.
A dual lemmy/kbin app from him would be fantastic.
There’s a work-in-progress effort called tafkars to create a hostable API relay which Reddit apps can talk to to have it relayed onward to the Lemmy API. If completed, it should allow anything that uses the existing Reddit API to talk to Lemmy with a small app modification. It seems like a bit of a stop-gap solution to me but it’s a cool idea.
I have pro, but not ultra. Haven’t been able to unlock my purchase since I got my new iPad. Maybe that’s why I’m not getting the pop up now.
If you want to support Christian and Apollo you can purchase the good bye wallpapers at a price of your choice. They are beautiful and you get them in sizes for iPhone, iPad and desktop
Man, Christian is such an inspiration to me, what a great guy. I hope he has success in all of his future projects.
He has his pixel pals, if you want to support his future projects, check that app out!
Done.
For some reason I’m not my getting this pop up, and the notification tab is glitching out. I tipped him $10 since I don’t seem to be able to opt out of paying. ___
Did you update the app from AppStore?
That got it. Well, now he got a tip and a refund decline.
Bought the wallpapers too, absolutely stunning!
One of the few apps where I could actually see where the monthly subscription fee was was earned with constant updates and improvements.
Never tapped a button faster.
What I wouldn’t give Apollo to of Fediverse.
You could try the app wefwef. It’s inspired by Apollo and not to bad
I’ve looked at it a little bit, I’d prefer an app app instead of a web app, but it seems pretty solid for what it is.
It is an app when you install it. There literally is no downside of using a PWA over a native app
Memmy is my app of choice, very heavily inspired by Apollo.
Good move from Christian.
End of an era.
