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Apollo Recognition (self.wefwef)
submitted 1 year ago by Elrainia to c/wefwef
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Given the strong genetic link between wefwef and Apollo, I think it would be great to acknowledge and describe the origins of wefwef’s UX design. In a few months, there will (hopefully) be new signups who never used Reddit, and never had the opportunity to use the awesome piece of software Christian developed over the better part of a decade. I’d like to see the legacy and history of Apollo live on, even if it’s just that iconic icon and a few sentences.

Maybe we could have an “Ode to Apollo” somewhere under the settings menu?

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[–] Kodos 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This would be a really nice gesture. I never thought I’d miss an app as much as I do Apollo. So tragic.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The muscle memory tho

[–] Tandybaum 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve accidentally opened it probably 15 times since the shut down

[–] astrobound 5 points 1 year ago

doomscroller located lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Just replace the Apollo icon with Wefwef and you’ll open it instead.

Sometimes I forget I’m no longer using Reddit. It was such a smooth transition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just replace it with wefwef

[–] haulyard 4 points 1 year ago

Same. I was compelled to pick up a t-shirt recently as a gesture of thanks.

[–] aeharding 34 points 1 year ago

That would be fun!!

We just need a good ode

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Absolutely agree. I came from Apollo, likely along most other users, so a tribute might be nice to show somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I came from Apollo, and I definitely appreciate that wefwef has helped my transition from Reddit to Lemmy be a little less painful.

I just want to ask though, is this app (a close copy of Apollo) ok with and sanctioned by Christian Selig?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I don't think you can copyright look and feel of an app and they're not using any Apollo branding / trademarks.

[–] ArbitraryMary 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve been wondering the same myself. Lots of the new apps popping up aren’t just heavily influenced by the functionality of Apollo, they’re directly cloning things like the icons, and the text in certain scenarios like when there’s no comments on a post and it says something like “it’s quiet.. too quiet” or something like that. And when you view a comment and there’s a banner at the bottom saying it’s a single comment thread. The syntax is identical.

I’m not complaining because it really has made the transition to the fediverse very easy. But I know Christian put literally years of work into Apollo and I don’t want to feel like new developers are ripping that off.

[–] kratoz29 10 points 1 year ago

I think it is pretty obvious when you visit the GitHub that it is Apollo based, and there is even an Apollo migration tool within the settings.

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

That would be nice

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

to have Washington on your side.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hamilton was in NZ recently. It was so good!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

/c/UnexpectedHamilton

(Not sure if I did that correctly)

[–] burak -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How about adding “pixel pals” link to the settings tab like Apollo had? And we could link it to the app store (on ios ofc)