Updated Apollo to give it that Tweetbot treatment 🤝
@christianselig two of my favorite apps gone too soon 🪦 👼
@christianselig Two of my favorite apps now both gone. Thank you for all the hard work you put into Apollo, Christian! It was a pleasure to use it.
@christianselig Boost is a Reddit client that you definitely have heard of. People have unofficially patched it so users can use their own API keys and leave the app development to the developer. Please consider allowing us to figure out the API access on our own!
@justomar @christianselig is that a thing? I'd love to subscribe to a version of Apollo I could configure with my own API key
@justomar @christianselig Boost is also working on a version for Lemmy 👌
@justomar Christian already answered that one, that’s against Reddit TOS.
@justomar @christianselig It's not worth it. Either you'll get your API key revoked or at most get banned. It's not a good long term solution. And Reddit will most likely break it.
@Graphine @justomar @christianselig The solution here is to just bail on Reddit all together. They showed their hand with how they dealt with all of this.
@justomar I think I remember Christian (or some other app dev, maybe the dev of Sync?) saying that they would not be doing that.

@christianselig 😔

i hope, you will return with another app, as Tapbots came back with Ivory

@christianselig nice touch. Thanks for everything Christian.
@christianselig my Android version of this
@masonjars @christianselig Flamingo was a classic. Way beyond its time
@christianselig I am so sad about Apollo. That said, I am looking forward to your next adventure.
@christianselig That’s so sad to see… and I’m updating the icon right now. Thank you for everything you’ve done with this app the last years! Without Apollo there won’t be Reddit for me…
@christianselig you should check out the Lemmy client WefWef. Followed in your footsteps to what a potential Apollo client would look like. If you updated Apollo to use Lemmy I think users would love it!
@christianselig You’re probably buried in well-wishes, but I wanted to tell you how much Apollo has meant to me and has inspired me to start writing my own iOS apps! Thanks for everything, Christian!
@christianselig I’d ask for a cut of revenue for licensing fees but I think that would end up with me owing money. 😢
@paul @christianselig LETS TALK ABOUT THE BIRD THEN
@chockenberry @christianselig sure I’ll give you as big a cut of our last months revenue as you’d like.
@paul @chockenberry @christianselig In all seriousness though, Apollo and Tweetbot were two of my most-used/best-loved apps, and both were kneecapped within the span of a few months. I hope we all learn the lessons of the past and that federation becomes mainstream. We now have a lot of really great third-party clients for Mastodon; I’m hoping Reddit replacements will spring up soon because using Lemmy and Kbin through a browser kinda blows…
@warling @paul @chockenberry @christianselig Both Mlem and Memmy are coming together quite nicely. I too user Tweetbot and Apollo and loved both. Really demonstrates how people love the apps as much as the service. I can’t fathom using Reddit without Apollo.
@andricheli Agreed — Apollo *was* Reddit to me, just as Tweetbot was Twitter. Since those apps are now dead, the services that went along with them are now essentially dead to me as well, which is something that Musk and /u/spez have failed to grasp. I’m only one small user, obviously, but there are untold millions just like me and you.
@andricheli @warling @paul @chockenberry @christianselig I loved the apps far more than the services. Both platforms made it clear from the minute they started taking steps to introduce advertising that the everyday user’s experience was not topping their list of concerns anymore. Any company where that is the case is a ticking time-bomb, not worth investing time or (especially) money in.
@christianselig Any chance you can drop an update to give Apollo redemption and let it bless Lemmy with its connectivity?
@christianselig Thanks to you Christian. It’s been a good ride though.
@christianselig Such a little detail but one that invokes so many emotions
@christianselig my version
@filmfreak75 @christianselig for a second there I got worried that something had happened to Ivory, until I realized I’m currently viewing the image with Ivory and I might be slightly sleep deprived 😅
@avgcdn @christianselig i keep them all together so i never forget
@filmfreak75 well then in that case I hope to see a fourth one there very soon (a Lemmy client made my Christian)
@christianselig a search for #Lemmy on the App Store yields no results. #JustSaying #FoodForThought
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@christianselig
Most of the are on testflight and still in alpha/beta, you can be used, here's a list of apps https://lemmy.world/post/465785

@helbonikster Not from Christian, but there are definitely clients on the app store.

https://join-lemmy.org/apps

Lemmy - Apps and Libraries

Lemmy

@christianselig @helbonikster am currently using Mlem which is in beta available via TestFlight. They’re planning a 1.0 release soon
@christianselig if you ever find yourself in the GTA I'll buy you a beer. RIP, Apollo.
@christianselig Thanks for all the years of making Reddit great on mobile!
@christianselig Oh, that’s what it was …
@christianselig damnit, two of the best iOS apps ever made 😢
@christianselig I will miss this app. Seriously. Hands down - best iOS app I ever spent money on.
@christianselig It may not be possible, but I’ve tried to switch over to lemmy and there’s an option to export a json file from Apollo in order to follow similar communities. With the last update with Apollo, it can’t be reached any longer. Is it still possible to give people access to the settings?