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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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[–] fuckstick 79 points 1 year ago (12 children)

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

[–] cybersandwich 41 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] kat 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

THEY ARE CHARGING FOR THE APP???

What alternate reality are they living in?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 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.

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