Currently sitting on the toilet and browsing reddit trough Apollo one last time π
Rip. Sync just got rate limited.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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To be fair, they allegedly weren't profitable.
Which I prefer. I'd prefer a general communal forum to be non-profit, user supported, and moderation decentralized.
Allegedly, yes. Where did the millions of dollars of revenue go, from all the ads and sponsors (which completely infest their app)?
Reddit execs decided they needed thousands (?!) of employees, despite mods running the subreddits for free. They could never make an app as fully featured as those with literally one employee. And it took years for them to deliver promised features and mod tools (many are very recent or still unavailable).
Lemmy and Mastodon, and all their apps, are running thanks mostly to a few dozen awesome people and donations.
Where did Reddit's millions of dollars disappear to again? And how is that not damning proof of their current execs incompetence?
(Note: I direct this /rant in Reddit's general direction.)
It's easy to make $300,000,000 in funding into a "nonprofitable" company.
You just pay the people running it more than you have. Then usually claim loses on your taxes.
Sure it wasnβt profitable, but the money they were asking for was insane.
No one was against them charging for the api, they were against the insane prices and how the whole thing was handled.
Spez just trying to cash out as much for the IPO and fucking it all up.
Any company can be unprofitable if you have 100x the staff you need working on features that make the site worse or are scams
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It just went down the rate limits are happening :,(
Just when I was reading Christianβs farewell post too. All so needless. Oh well.. hello Lemmy!!
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i think in that case - fully supported
RIP Apollo and the rest of the 3rd party apps. I used Apollo everyday for the past couple of years and while Iβm on here I still feel disbelief that itβs about to shut down.
Put your API changes away, Waltuh
Skyler be singing happy cake day to u/spez in the most cringey way possible
Rip Apollo and Reddit , welcome lemmy !
Try out wefwef.app
It's spooky how close it is to Apollo
wefwef is also great as a desktop app.
WHOA. I'm trying this on my desktop next!!
Iβm running the macOS Sonoma beta. It has that new add-to-dock feature that essentially makes any web page feel more like a local app.
I know thatβs not a new concept, but the implementation is really nice.
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It seems I get to have add free relay for a little while longer, as I paid for it a long time ago and u/dbrady seems to be working on a monthly subscription thing with Reddit.
I have mixed feelings. I've been successfully weaning myself off Reddit, and already had a little 'final visit to the app' a day or so ago, so I don't think I'll have much use of the 'extra' time on the SFW Reddit.
My contributions were mostly jokes in the comments (some were actually pretty damn good, others admittedly terrible) and personal shit I was working out over the almost eleven years I've shared with Reddit. I've considered deleting everything, but it was a lot of me talking to the abyss, and it sometimes talking back at me. I feel like letting my words linger and die there with bots picking at their cadavers has its charm.
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RIP just tried for the last time and wonβt open. Iβll miss it.
Had to remove RIF as well last night. Sad times.
never realized how perfect this meme format is for the situation that's currently ongoing
Testing out Mlem for Lemmy and loving it. Has a very Apollo like feel to it! RIP Apollo!
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Just stopped for meβ¦ Feels like the end of the Truman showβ¦
What time do the apps actually go down? Is there a specific cutoff or will they all just die one by one?
I think Apollo literally just died a minute or two ago. Was using it when it suddenly just crashed. Now every time I open it, it crashes almost instantly.
Still working over here
I see. Maybe itβs going to die off in waves of users. Itβs 100% stopped working for me.
Same thing is happening to me. Didnβt happen until I made the final update though.
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Well, here I am. Fuck Spez. Apollo was the best and the official Reddit app is pure shit. Itβs a shame. Now Iβm testing thunder and memmy. I really hope I can find a new home here
Try Wefwef. Itβs a carbon copy of Apollo for Lemmy. Youβll feel right at home. Make sure you add it to your home screen for the best experience.
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Allowed? It's mandatory!
Blows my mind how some corporations would make more money doing literally nothing then they just completely ruin it
Right? Wouldn't some money from API calls be better than no money?
BaconReader removed from my phone.
lol the dialog fits perfectly ππ
Great scene and carries across to this situation really well. Sane API pricing with different tiered API endpoints ($$ for the public ones, but separate tiers for 3rd party apps by negotiation to keep out the AI training farms, by keeping them in the expensive, non -negotiated tier) would have been fine.
There were ways through this, but they're already decided and weren't willing to negotiate
Just saw that Apollo crashed and was about to see if someone posted something here, and I was not disappointed π.
RIP
They shut the API off early. RIP Apollo.
Was not expecting to find it dead, and went to launch it one last time. Gut punch.
I wonder if Reddit shut it off early just to be spiteful bastards.
"Gut punch" feels weirdly accurate.
F U SPEZ
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