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    I just downloaded the Mlem TestFlight. The design feels very Apollo-inspired, it’s great so far!

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        1 year ago

        Came from Bacon Reader, and I feel similarly. The only feature I’m dying for is the ability to collapse threads by clicking on them.

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    1 year ago

    Ive always been on rif, never even heard of Apollo until this whole API catastrophe. Now I feel like I’m missing out!

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      It was a labor of love and it showed. I hope to see it return as part of the Fediverse in some capacity, one day. Fingers crossed.

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      Meh, you weren’t. RIF is for us Android Troglodytes. If you are using Android, you are either poor or care how you spend your money. Either way, for RIF was the best $2.99 I ever spent.

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        1 year ago

        Oh Apollo was apple only? Strange it gets so much attention - who uses Apple anymore, what a racket

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          To be frank, Apollo is the best Reddit has ever been for me, period. Apollo was the Reddit app for iOS. It was even so ubiquitous that it earned praise from the folks high up in the Apple food chain, and getting directly named in their recent event.

          The guy behind the whole project was previously an intern at Apple, and wanted to make something that “felt like it was created by Apple,” and damn did he succeed. I spent a pretty penny supporting that project when I had an iPhone, and I continued to throw a little money that way once I finally got away from Apple. I’d have bought it all over again if it ever came to Android. To be clear, the app was free and ad-free with optional paid tiers for extra features or just to support the dev. Absolutely incredible work.

          When I came to Android, nothing ever quite replaced Apollo. Not that there’s anything wrong with the plentiful other third party apps, Apollo was just… That good, IMO. Sad to hear he won’t be pivoting toward supporting an alternative, like Lemmy, but I understand why.

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            1 year ago

            I don’t entirely agree. I have an iPad with Apollo and an Android with RiF and I’ve always liked RiF much more. Of course they’re both magnitudes better than the official garbage app. Just a matter of personal taste, I guess.

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              Unfortunately, there isn’t really a proper iPad version of Apollo. It was on the dev’s to-do list but obviously he’s never going to get round to it now, which is a real shame. The scaled-up iPhone version you do get on iPad is still probably the best iPad version of reddit though, not that there’s a great deal of competition. It’s not the best way to experience Apollo though.

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    Mlem looks promising, if it can develop the save functionality that Apollo has then it gets my vote.

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        It is yes, but there is an (unrelated) Android client called Jerboa if that is the OS you use.

        I would very much like the Apollo developer to do this but possibly he’s burnt out on social media and would like to work on something else. He has developed a series of other unrelated apps that make him a decent income also.

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      IIRC, he open sourced the server backend.

      Edit: apparently I do not recall correctly. I remember someone saying something about open source, and he posted something to github. I incorrectly linked the two. Thanks to those posted more accurate information below.

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        I’m not sure if “open sourced” is the right word(s) here. I can’t find a license in the repository, so it is not released as open source and the code can’t be used without breaching copyright.

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          I’m pretty sure it was only done to prove Reddit wrong re: scraping and abusing the API (and all those silly accusations they made against Apollo).

          He still owns the rights to it AFAIK.

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        Server back end? What does that do? I thought Apollo would just take directly to Reddit’s servers?

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          Iirc it was mostly about storing some user preferences and providing push notifications.
          Reddit apparently has no async API for notifications, so 3rd party apps are forced to regular polling.