Christian has released a final update to Apollo with the option to opt out of the refund. I urge everybody that was happy with his contribution to our community to do so since he will have to refund out of his own pocket. And yes, this was for an entire year of the app, but he did I no way know that Reddit was going to change the pricing beforehand when he even asked them what the future for Reddit and Apollo would look like back in the beginning of the year and apparently Reddit said that there wouldn’t be any major changes in 2023!?
Also, the amazingly talented artists of the Apollo icons have contributed with good bye wallpapers that you can get for a donation ❤️
In the grand scheme of history, this is nothing. But it’s hard not to feel like I’m living through a huge moment.
The news, connections, answers, laughter, sadness, shock, joy–all of it–that this app delivered to me will be fondly cherished.
You know, if he could find a way to re-hook Apollo over to one or more Lemmy instances, I think Apollo would immediately become the default Lemmy client for a whole lot of people. What’s more, I expect that a fairly large subset of those people still haven’t even heard about Lemmy yet, and would suddenly be creating new accounts. That would also help to incentivize people to grant his request, and turn down the refund.
Just a thought. I know there would by necessity be an awful lot of work involved to make such a thing happen… but it would probably be worth it.
Numerous people have asked, Christian’s reply is that he’s not looking at it right now. Honestly, his replies sound like he’s going to take a day long nap on the 1st before thinking about anything else.
What I wouldn’t give Apollo to of Fediverse.
You could try the app wefwef. It’s inspired by Apollo and not to bad
I’ve looked at it a little bit, I’d prefer an app app instead of a web app, but it seems pretty solid for what it is.
It is an app when you install it. There literally is no downside of using a PWA over a native app
I’m going to miss apollo. Too bad I only first heard about it around a month ago. It’s a really good app.
I’m currently trying out the app wefwef which is inspired by Apollo for the fediverse. I’m surprised how much better it makes browsing the fediverse feel compared to native browser sites. This gave me a lot of hope for the future here. I’m also a fan of the Memmy App which I’m also testing!
Thank you for the recommendation. I’ll check it out!
