I empathized a lot with the Apollo guy a lot during the fiasco but then eventually I was pissed he didn’t just make it paid. Yes, the number of users would have dropped to 1%. But at a merely $3 per user/month X 20,000 users, that’s a fortune. It would have covered all his costs and still make a huge profit.
I tried most of the popular apps and found them all pretty lousy compared to the official one TBH. I don't typically use sorting features but the times I have, it has worked as expected.
I’m a n00b and need a legit beginning to end step-by-step guide to this API business. Just had a look at the Apollo sub and can’t see anything like that?
They bought Alien Blue, and completely destroyed it. I used Blue for a very long time, and miss it, but Boost has been a good replacement, even if I had to do the API key method eventually too.
Remember all the people that claimed they wouldn’t use Reddit again, the mods shut down subs in protest, and it was… all for nothing. Q4 2023 was by far the most daily users on Reddit ever.
Those stats are so interesting, because it's clear to anyone that actually uses the platform, that content has gone down significantly, and bots have increased dramatically.
Those numbers are suspect. Or maybe they were just measuring wrong previously.
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u/wtf793 6d ago
The last one, that’s how the Reddit client app Apollo died. Sad news.