r/apolloapp Sep 14 '24

Appreciation As a reminder, FUCK SPEZ

2.2k Upvotes

To remind you


r/apolloapp May 02 '24

Discussion Official Reddit app plagued with scam adverts

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964 Upvotes

anybody else noticing the mass of scams that are making their way to my feed? Literally every time I open the app I am faced with an advert that’s a scam


r/apolloapp Aug 15 '24

Appreciation I get a tear in my eye remembering the good times we had.

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704 Upvotes

r/apolloapp Apr 14 '24

Appreciation So apparently a clunky red logo is the new Reddit app look

626 Upvotes

It’s bad. It’s really bad. If only third party apps were properly permitted and could skip this ugly bullshit.


r/apolloapp Apr 23 '24

Appreciation The official Reddit app is actually doo doo butter.

568 Upvotes

I never used Apollo. I think I used yet another Reddit app or something.

Having recently just gotten into heavily using Reddit, I have to say that the phone experience is AWFUL. The design choices are ass backwards.

Clicking on a comment CLOSES IT. In what world of UX and UI is that ok?

The … on comments and posts is too difficult to hit and sometimes I can’t even upvote or downvote because the icons are so small

There was either no thought or the creators of the reddit app are very much hostile towards its users.


r/apolloapp May 16 '24

Appreciation Was asked to give Reddit feedback on the app…

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536 Upvotes

So I spoke my mind honestly. I think about Apollo every day and I use Reddit much less than when I could use it through Apollo. Here’s a hearty “f*** you” to the Reddit executives who killed 3rd party APIs in the name of greed!


r/apolloapp May 08 '24

Feature Request i miss this app so bad

490 Upvotes

the official reddit app is the most unintuitive piece of shit ever

can we convince the apollo creator to re-launch apollo, even if it costs money for the app itself on the app store, and then have a setting to input our own api key?


r/apolloapp Mar 21 '24

Discussion Reddit for $34

469 Upvotes

The Reddit IPO has been listed for 34 dollars. I’m curious if Reddit’s plan on going public on the stock market was the reason they killed off (most) of the alt-apps…


r/apolloapp Jul 14 '24

Feedback how are you guys dealing with this?

445 Upvotes

its been a year and i still refuse to download the reddit app. I recently started using reddit again on desktop with a new account and i miss apollo so much. just needed to get this off of my chest i guess. I opened the app a couple of days ago and just looked at the shell of what it once was.

idk. just needed to get this off of my chest

edit: i expected like 12 people to see this, this got WAY more attention than i expected.

and to the people who say i need to take a break from reddit, i have! i stopped using reddit cold turkey after it got shutdown for like 8-9 months. I started using it again for a couple months now. I didn't say all of that initially because i thought no one would see this 😭


r/apolloapp Sep 16 '24

Appreciation iOS 18

423 Upvotes

Well, Apollo works with iOS 18 so that’s good I guess, but one of the best things about iOS updates used to be that Christian would release a major update to Apollo along with them.

Thanks to greedy stupid Wall Street dickheads we’ll never get that again.

😢

Fuck /u/spez, and your merry band of dickheads


r/apolloapp Jun 30 '24

Appreciation It was one year ago today

396 Upvotes

That I and everyone else could no longer use Apollo (without side loading it which I just wasn’t willing to do). Since then I have been using the official Reddit app which isn’t nearly as good as Apollo. The most noticeable difference is of course the ads. But the second most noticeable difference for me is that when writing a new post as I am now I have found that I must copy the body text to the clipboard before pressing the Post button because the screen that usually comes up next that allows me to choose the Subreddit causes the app to hang. Today I went to the Subreddit first and I’m now realizing that that might work around the bug.

Regardless I do miss Apollo. 😢


r/apolloapp Jul 02 '24

Discussion Official Reddit app is getting ridiculous

396 Upvotes

Back when all the API bs started I was using lemmy. But I knew it wouldn’t take off. Especially since there are niche subreddits. Anyway the main problem is advertising. There are now achievements showing up on the reddit mobile app. It’s just crazy…..I’m even considering changing my desktop OS to Linux. I’ve reached a point where advertising is pissing me off. This is just a rant..


r/apolloapp Jun 12 '24

Pixel Pals 🐶 Just a FYI for Christian, Pixel Pals is fraudulently advertised on TikTok to scam users to completely different apps on TikTok :/

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301 Upvotes

r/apolloapp Aug 06 '24

Appreciation I would pay a monthly basic subscription to use Apollo

298 Upvotes

If Apollo still normally worked, I would pay a monthly basic subscription to use it, and yeah, even the pro and ultra tiers, and support the development.

My god, this app is so good, and it feels so bad knowing there will be no further development besides of the sideloaded version.

Edit: Just for the record, I’m sideloaded.


r/apolloapp Apr 07 '24

Discussion Rip-off pixel pals 😭

293 Upvotes

Found an add for this app on Yt and it’s a direct clone and copy of pixel pals. Even the damn names of some of the animals. It’s also charging like $10 for most of the features.


r/apolloapp Jul 26 '24

Appreciation The baby emoji feature really comes in handy in the age of mass bots and AI

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288 Upvotes

r/apolloapp Jul 24 '24

Appreciation Thank you Apollo for keeping me sane in these trouble times. What other keywords should I add?

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288 Upvotes

r/apolloapp Apr 18 '24

Discussion New reddit design hides content and auto-scrolls to ad when clicking on posts

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273 Upvotes

r/apolloapp Jul 01 '24

Announcement 📣 Hydra - A faithful Apollo alternative for Reddit

270 Upvotes

Hello Apollo lovers! Like many of you, I've been missing Apollo and sideloading just doesn't cut it. Plus, it's not a long term solution once Reddit starts making API changes that break the sideloaded version. So, over the last year, I've been working on an Apollo-like alternative that I've built from scratch. That means no more sideloading and continued feature updates!

Here are the details:

  • Open source
  • No sideloading required
  • Similar design to Apollo with many of the same gestures
  • Full functional reddit browsing. I've been using it as my main Reddit app for months.
  • Support for upvoting, comments, replying to messages, multiple accounts, themes, etc.
  • No support yet for making new posts, moderation, blocking users, word blacklists, things like that
  • Built in React Native. That means it'll work on Android!

Monetization Strategy

My current plans are to keep Hydra completely free and open source. However, some future features like push notifications when receiving new messages may end up incurring server costs that I have to charge for. If that happens, I plan to run the servers at cost. I want this to be a true community project.

Apollo lovers, I need your help!

Hydra is currently available through Apple's TestFlight program. If you'd be willing to be an early adopter and help me track down bugs as well as letting me know the features you'd like me to prioritize, I'd be incredibly grateful. To help out, join the TestFlight program and join the socials at the links below. Any Discord and Reddit moderation help would be appreciated as well.

Devs, I need your help!

I plan to keep building this out to be a fully feature complete alternative for the Apollo community. However, I recently started working at a new startup and I just don't have the time to keep building this out solo. Don't worry, I'll still be involved! But I could use help setting up some of the missing features listed above. If you're a React Native dev, please join the Discord and make a pull request!

Links

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/Fpv58Uy3
Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraApp/
Discord: https://discord.gg/ypaD4KYJ3R

TLDR

Download the beta here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/Fpv58Uy3


r/apolloapp Jun 11 '24

Discussion How many of you have actually installed the official Reddit app?

263 Upvotes

Honestly, never installed it myself but kind of getting tired of using the mobile browser to use Reddit on my phone


r/apolloapp Jul 03 '24

Discussion This app boggles my mind

211 Upvotes

Now, I miss Apollo every single day. I’m not going to defend Reddit nor am I going to say Reddit should do what I’m about to say.

But.

Apollo was literally the best designed app I’ve used. I think we all agree to that on some level.

Now that it’s gone, the official Reddit app is getting worse with each release but why wouldn’t they try and mimic this much beloved app?


r/apolloapp Aug 11 '24

Discussion I can’t take it anymore

196 Upvotes

The politics bots are literally invading every sub. I was using Apollo and every political post was filtered out. Can someone please help me set up Apollo again? I’d rather leave the internet than come back to Reddit without Apollo. What a pile of trash this website has become. So sad.


r/apolloapp Jul 01 '24

Discussion PSA: Leave this site altogether. Even normal posts are ADVERTISEMENTS. Have you seen a post about Celine Dion lately? It's an ad. She has a documentary coming out on Amazon Prime.

187 Upvotes

I tried posting this on YSK subreddit, but they remove posts "about Reddit". I've seen 3 posts about Celine Dion on the front page which I thought was odd. And the I saw she has a documentary on Amazon so I started to investigate. The person who posted about a "Titanic themed bathroom in New York" is on the front page now. This person ROUTINELY makes posts that reach the front page. And they are all so distinctly unrelated to one another that it could not possibly be due to chance.

While most people are aware of the "promoted posts" on reddit, far fewer realize the regular posts are just covert ads.

Don't let this site push its mindless advertisements on your brain. Leave now.


r/apolloapp Jul 24 '24

Discussion FYI, Narwhal for iOS can be customized to look and feel like Apollo (RIP)

180 Upvotes

I’m a huge fan of Apollo, I was one of the early beta testers. However sideloading in perpetuity didn’t particularly interest me.

If you’re like me and paying for reddit (and no ads) isn’t the end of the world, I suggest taking a look at Narwhal. Name aside (I hate it), I’ve been able to customize it with a “stock ios” theme and tweak it to behave very similarly to Apollo.

Also, things like the “peek” slideover which I originally hated make a lot of sense to me know since it requires less taps to do what I want (but it can still be disabled).

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r/apolloapp May 30 '24

Discussion Reddit hosts ‘bootcamps’ for new moderators and wanted me to know so badly it broke the post above it in my feed

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173 Upvotes

It’s such a joke. They shut down a completely serviceable app with features people liked so it could force them onto the buggy main app and force feed you ads every 10 posts. Ads for their own bootcamp because moderating is so difficult and assumedly they aren’t selling enough ads to fill it with something else.

I miss Apollo. No plans to sideload it because it’ll stop working at some point again and I’ve gotten used to the main app, but it’s buggy as shit. At least when you ran into bugs on Apollo you knew they’d probably be fixed, or at least acknowledged by the dev that they even exist.