I recently told you about the fact that Reddit was going to start charging for access to its API, and that had many upset enough to plan to black out Reddit on June 12th. Related to this, it now seems that Apollo which is the most popular third party Reddit client is going to shut down on June 30th:
Eight years ago, I posted in the Apple subreddit about a Reddit app I was looking for beta testers for, and my life completely changed that day. I just finished university and an internship at Apple, and wanted to build a Reddit client of my own: a premier, customizable, well-designed Reddit app for iPhone. This fortunately resonated with people immediately, and it’s been my full time job ever since.
Today’s a much sadder post than that initial one eight years ago. June 30th will be Apollo’s last day.
I’ve talked to a lot of people, and come to terms with this over the last weeks as talks with Reddit have deteriorated to an ugly point, and in the interest of transparency with the community, I wanted to talk about how I arrived at this decision, and if you have any questions at the end, I’m more than happy to answer. This post will be long as I have a lot of topics to cover.
Please note that I recorded all my calls with Reddit, so my statements are not based on memory, but the recorded statements by Reddit over the course of the year. One-party consent recording is legal in my country of Canada. Also I won’t be naming names, that’s not important and I don’t want to doxx people.
I encourage you to read the full post, but to be honest, this post does not paint Reddit in the best light as you can make an argument that Reddit is simply using charing for access to their API as cover to kill third party clients. That makes Reddit a way less appealing place to be. Much like Twitter. Minus the Twitter levels of hate, bigotry and everything else. This is sure to generate a lot of negativity towards Reddit, and you have to wonder if this will force Reddit to course correct. Or they simply don’t care and are going to push ahead with this ill conceived idea to kill third party clients.
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Apollo To Shut Down As Of June 30th Because Of Reddit’s API Changes
I recently told you about the fact that Reddit was going to start charging for access to its API, and that had many upset enough to plan to black out Reddit on June 12th. Related to this, it now seems that Apollo which is the most popular third party Reddit client is going to shut down on June 30th:
Eight years ago, I posted in the Apple subreddit about a Reddit app I was looking for beta testers for, and my life completely changed that day. I just finished university and an internship at Apple, and wanted to build a Reddit client of my own: a premier, customizable, well-designed Reddit app for iPhone. This fortunately resonated with people immediately, and it’s been my full time job ever since.
Today’s a much sadder post than that initial one eight years ago. June 30th will be Apollo’s last day.
I’ve talked to a lot of people, and come to terms with this over the last weeks as talks with Reddit have deteriorated to an ugly point, and in the interest of transparency with the community, I wanted to talk about how I arrived at this decision, and if you have any questions at the end, I’m more than happy to answer. This post will be long as I have a lot of topics to cover.
Please note that I recorded all my calls with Reddit, so my statements are not based on memory, but the recorded statements by Reddit over the course of the year. One-party consent recording is legal in my country of Canada. Also I won’t be naming names, that’s not important and I don’t want to doxx people.
I encourage you to read the full post, but to be honest, this post does not paint Reddit in the best light as you can make an argument that Reddit is simply using charing for access to their API as cover to kill third party clients. That makes Reddit a way less appealing place to be. Much like Twitter. Minus the Twitter levels of hate, bigotry and everything else. This is sure to generate a lot of negativity towards Reddit, and you have to wonder if this will force Reddit to course correct. Or they simply don’t care and are going to push ahead with this ill conceived idea to kill third party clients.
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