“I Will Remember Apollo”

Crazy to see my lemmy account at <1m old when my Reddit one is 15yrs 11mo…kinda bummed I’m all but resigned to moving on just short of my sweet 16.

Hope to see these federated services take off!

RIP Apollo

No worries brosef. You’re early-adopting yet again. Give it time, and you’ll be one of the legacy guys once again.

10-year Reddit user
- 11 year old reddit account ❌ (deleted)
  
  20 day old lemmy account ✅
- I never thought about that... I'll be proud to show off my account age in a few years
- This is the way.
- Yeah, 13 year veteran here. It’s actually kinda refreshing to have a fresh start. My dumbass high school self shared way too much on Reddit and picked obvious usernames. By the time I wised up I was in too deep. Doing things differently this time in a level playing field.
16 and a half here… it doesn’t feel any different.

Release Apollo app for Lemmy 🤷‍♀️

Wefwef app feels like I’m on Apollo. I love it
- Yeah agreed. The migration feature from Apollo to wefwef is great too!
- Decently surprised at how well it performs for a PWA.
- Yeah I’m using it as I type this and it is incredibly similar, almost eerily. I’m kind of hoping the developer gives it it’s own unique character and soul in the future. Or since it’s open source (I’m pretty sure?) someone else can.
  
  But with that being said I still strongly recommend so far
- I can't find wefwef in the AppStore. Can you send the link?
  
  nvm not a real app but a web app.
I hope that Christian will make an app for Lemmy! I think he'll take a break for a while to relax after dealing with reddit's bullshit.
The new update for Memmy is awesome. Can sort comments now. The app looks polished!
We need it. Really!
- But we have memmy and wefwef web app, so it is not such a pain.
This! Reuse as much as possible.
This! Reuse as much as possible.
This! Reuse as much as possible.
This! Reuse as much as possible.

Image Transcription: Image with Text:

[The mascot icon for the app 'Apollo for Reddit', a small cartoon-style astronaut's head, is shown smiling in from of a pink heart, with two smaller hearts floating above it. There is a white volume icon in the upper right corner and white text below the icon. The image has a black background.]

Thank You

Apollo shut down on June 30th due to reddit making drastic and sudden increases to API pricing for developers.

It was an absolute honour to build Apollo for you all over the last 9 years, I loved every minute of it.

If you'd like to continue to support me, there's some options below!

- Christian (u/iamthatis)

^I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

Good human

Glad to know you guys are still around ^-
- Glad to know we're still remembered
Glad to see this has come to Lemmy! Keep up the great work friend!
Hey, I would like to help with this, but I want to make sure I do it right and do not repeat any already existing transcripts. It gives me something productive to do on my phone that is hopefully better for my mental health and helps my fellow humans.
- I usually scroll through the comments looking for the word "transcription", and if I don't see it, I go ahead. Should get easier for me once they implement search in comments on liftoff, which is hopefully soon. As for formats, you can find the formatting on the r/TranscribersOfReddit sub, and you can ask the discord if you have any questions. I'm on there too, and the mods may seem scary at first but trust me they're really kind and just happy that you're there trying to help. It's volunteer work, after all.
  
  The only big rule is if you aren't doing it through ToR using the proper reddit queue (which is no longer active due to the bot shutting down from the API limits), then you need to change or remove the footer, and dont link to the ToR subreddit.
  
  It's an amazing community and honestly some of my recent transcriptions have been me trying to fight off my own depression by doing this. So you aren't alone in those reasons, and it can be really nice to see just how much it helps people. Daunting at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's super easy.
  
  If you want to get started, but aren't sure if you're doing it right, feel free to ping me in a reply to your transcription on here and I can read it over and give you some pointers if needed. Best of luck!
Ayy it's good to see you guys over here o7

RIP Apollo and fuck you spez 🖕

The amount of times I’ve opened the app due to muscle memory and seeing that screen…. Rip Apollo and fuck spez. I hope he steps on the pointiest of lego bricks.

Wefwef is not bad for a web app that you can add to your Home Screen. Mlem is basically inspired by Apollo, seems easy to use. It’s in TestFlight so you’ll have to download that and then grab the link to the beta.

There is another one called memmy, but I can’t find a working TestFlight link for that one as it requires a code to download.
- I’ve noticed a lot of multiple posts with wefwef users. I’m using it too, and all the muscle memory from Apollo carries over nicely. It’s quite nice.
That’s one of the main reasons I found an app for Lenny rather than using the web, I needed something to put in the hole Apollo left behind.
- You can save a web page as an icon (In Safari: click the share icon -> select “Add to Homescreen”)
I feel like that’s the reason why I got wefwef.

I'm sure Christian is taking some time off to lick his wounds and regroup, and I truly hope he's able to move forward. If he makes a Lemmy app, I'll definitely jump on it.

If you’re not already try wefwef. I keep forgetting it’s not actually Apollo I’m using.
- I have, it's very close to Apollo.

Hoping for the day Christian makes Apollo for Lemmy; I’d gladly pay for it

Check out wefwef.app! It feels just like Apollo and I’m loving it.
- its a little laggy but it works for me

There is void left by Apollo - that I don't think will be filled for a long time.

not that i'm disagreeing with you, but what made the app stand out compared to the others? i never used apollo and used other apps
- On the surface Apollo just had a lot of small QOL stuff that I highly valued: multiple sub support at a time, excellent filter options, embedded link preview (saved me from getting RickRolled and allowed me to enjoy getting RickRolled even more), and many more.
  
  Then there was all the small Easter egg stuff hidden in the app like tapping certain options multiple times to unlock secret icons for the app in the customization tab, or the link embed option showing websites of charities as default until you filled the text boxes.
  
  Apollo looked very sleek, ran wonderfully, and cut out all the nonsense with Reddit. I used the official app once or twice a month for certain things and the experience was pretty miserable in my opinion and for what I value.
  
  More than anything the dev; Christian, was just really active in the community, open with his development, and listened to the users. Was Apollo all roses and daises? Of course not, but I’m able to overlook things for how great an experience it gave me.
- I used Apollo for about 3 years and I've stuck with it for iOS mostly for its clean UI design that mimics Apple's design cues. It's also pretty smooth to scroll through with the gestures making navigation easy. For reference, I've only tried Apollo on iOS and didn't bother with the official app before.

I'll miss Christian's community engagement. It was always so nice to see an engineer who loved his product. Hopefully we'll see him on the dark side;)

Apollo was such a lovely experience. I still hope that Christian will rise up and produce something for iOS. I still keep looking for it's icon on my iPad Pro's dock!

I’d love to see Apollo rise from the ashes but I get how Christian must be feeling about the whole thing right now. Still, its legacy will live on. Standards have been set and I’m sure a lot of devs have taken inspiration from that.

Honestly, he should make Apollo for Lemmy. Take all of that design work he's already done and funnel it into a project that will literally never die.
- It does seem like a no brainer. Who knows, after the dust has settled and the stress of this whole shitty episode has faded, I’d love to see it happen.

It’s been fun, Apollo will be missed. I hope Christian will have a go at a fediverse app in the future.

That's insane. The Parody is just Wow

I’m sad that Apollo is gone, but Memmy for Lemmy fills the hole left in my Home Screen just fine. The app has already progressed so far, it’s licensed under the GPL, and it has made my transition from Reddit to Lemmy flawless.

If you love Apollo, you might check out wefwef. It is incredible.
- app also works on desktop but it seems optimized to work on mobile phones more than anything else
Are people using it via TestFlight? I’m not seeing it on the App Store.
- It’s a PWA, you can see instructions for how to install it by going to wefwef.app and then going to settings and clicking on ‘install app’
- Yes, it’s on TestFlight.
Memmy’s been giving me issues with repeat comments today too.
- I’m seeing repeated comments with different time stamps on wefwef too so I think it might be a greater Lemmy/lemmy.world issue
- I’m seeing repeated comments with different time stamps on wefwef too so I think it might be a greater Lemmy/lemmy.world issue

🎶 I will remember you

You will remember me

Don’t let your loooooove pass me by 🎶

RIP Apollo 😢 Thank you Christian for so many years of a great app.

Lemmy seems to have the promise to be a better platform than Reddit could ever be, but it is bitter sweet.

Of all the things I was thinking for a potential final surprise, a memorial song was not one of them! RIP, Apollo.

Christian Selig’s YouTube channel has the video posted, and the description there says the vocalist is Zoe Wynns.

I will miss Apollo! I hope he makes a Lemmy client. Wefwef is the closest there is right now.

Never used the app, tried it and thought it was great, but my use case for Reddit was too simple, so I stuck with the official app. Having said that, removing such option by Reddit was one of the main reasons that pushed me to this platform. It made me realize how much power these centerlised platforms have.

Originally by Sarah McLachlan.

Someone managed to find a video of the song.

RIP Apollo. You were good to me

I hope the apollo developer makes an app for lemmy!

😢

Yo why does that song have me crying

Question. Who owns these lemmy sites? I understand it’s decentralized. Can someone breakdown exactly what that means? Who, if anyone, owns these sites/servers, how it all works?

Anyone can make their own server. Then those server talk to each other to share the posts, comments and votes. You are on lemm.ee, I'm on lemmy.one, different owner, slightly different rules, but we see the same stuff
- Ok so each person hosts their own server, and thus pays for the server? Something along those lines?
- Normally they can talk to each other and share posts/comments. That's the so call federated. Unless, it's beehaw and world. Those two aren't talking. So beehaw is not federated.
Can be anyone. You download the software and put it on a server. Can be bare metal in your bedroom or a VM on Amazon Web Services. Individual/enthusiast owned, corporate owned, it’s open to anyone to host an instance.

There are now in total 26 wallpapers per platform (iPhone, iPad, Mac) up for download.

I’m so glad the icon artists are helping out. It’s quite inspiring that Christian has managed to bring so many different talents together in the last few weeks.

RIP Apollo. It was such a nice app

Lovely

I’m sad that Apollo is gone, but Memmy for Lemmy fills the hole left in my Home Screen just fine. The app has already progressed so far, it’s licensed under the GPL, and it has made my transition from Reddit to Lemmy flawless. 😁

There was a song? Dang, I just opened it, said yep it’s blank and that’s fucked up. Then I sadly deleted it and opened up memmy.

You can listen to the song on his YouTube channel as well: https://youtu.be/KOFChFxsJ3I
Fellow Memmy user I wonder if any inspiration was taken from Apollo, surely there isn’t an nod to the best theme (sunset) with Christian mentioned by name

Also can we customize gestures yet or no
- https://lemmy.ml/post/1634201
  
  The memmy developer is pretty available. He answers lots of questions and implements ideas at break neck speed. Come on in!
- https://lemmy.ml/post/1634201
  
  The memmy developer is pretty available. He answers lots of questions and implements ideas at break neck speed. Come on in!
Me too. I feel bad now!
- I think Lenny can be just as good if not better. It’s gonna be a wild ride with how beta everything is and who’s gonna pay for it etc, but it’s fun to be a part of it in this phase of its development.

RIP Apollo. It was such a nice app

An Apple enthusiast community seems rather dystopian

How about instead of wasting time circle jerking in your 10 minutes of fame, you dedicate a few hours to add Lemmy/kbin/mastodon/whatever support to Apollo and actually support your users?

Although wefwef pretty much completely fills the gap left by Apollo, it still annoys me to see the way this guy is handling this situation. Not only is he doing jack shit to support his loyal longtime users, he went through the effort of updating the app to beg people not to refund the subscription.

/end rant

Glad this is downvoted. It takes way more than a couple of hours to completely change your apps backend to read from a completely different website’s API. And that’s not even thinking of how complicated dealing with the fediverse is, dealing with multiple domains and logging in through multiple fediverses.

The guy doesn’t owe you anything. Please be quiet.
- I think he needs a break from all this before even thinking about building a new app. Having your work basically get tarnished in front of you, then being dragged through the mud by an arrogant brat in power who was obviously lying to and about you, having to deal with the refund process, that's gonna take a toll on anyone's mental health.
  
  I do hope he can make an Apollo for the federated alternatives like Lemmy and Kbin, but like I said, he needs to sort the closure of Apollo out before even thinking on any new apps.
- I recommended his app to people, I paid for the subscription, I left a positive review on the appstore. I was a loyal user for a long time.
  
  In the end, he tried (and fortunately failed) to sell Apollo to reddit, then just killed the app when that didn’t work. If he did care about users (aka the people that made him a lot of money), he could’ve sold the app to someone willing to continue it, or at least released it as open source.
  
  It’s not the end of the world, and he didn’t eat a newborn baby or anything like that, but I don’t think people should be patting this guy on the back for the way he handled this. He just took the money and ran, abandoning his customers in the process. That’s not the type of business I want to support.
Found Spez’s Lemmy account!
- That a threat?
Haha yeah, what an asshole deciding himself what to work on and not humbly serve some strangers on the internet :D
My guy, it takes way way way more than a few hours to "add support". You make it sound as if it's so easy.

He spent years building that app, improving it, only to have the rug pulled out from under him. I'm sure any developer would be pretty distraught by such an event. I know I'd be.
- Some people non-ironically think that all he needs to do is CMD F “Reddit” and change it to “Lemmy” in the app’s code, and all the functionality would be there.
Tell me you know nothing about building software without telling me you know nothing about building software.
Yeah, how dare he, after almost a decade of work, refuse to get back into the code mines at your whim and repurpose the app super easy in “a few hours”.

/s

Get a grip.

Not only would it take far more than “a few hours”, he owes you jack all.

Even if he would be interested in making a Lemmy app, he’d be well within his right to take a break from things.
Yikes, dude. He doesn’t owe you (or any of us) anything.
He created Apollo, because he was a reddit user and wanted a mobile app that didn't suck. So he created one of his own.

He's not (yet?) a lemmy or kbin user. So he has no need for an app here.

There are plenty other developersp here that do use lemmy/kbin and are busy with creating apps for those platforms. How about you support those other developers instead of complaining that this one developer isn't doing what you want him to do.

Also, he didn't try to sell Apollo. He was making a point how ridiculous the API charges were.
I hope he considers developing for Lemmy/Kbin and the fediverse more generally.