Given the strong genetic link between wefwef and Apollo, I think it would be great to acknowledge and describe the origins of wefwef’s UX design. In a few months, there will (hopefully) be new signups who never used Reddit, and never had the opportunity to use the awesome piece of software Christian developed over the better part of a decade. I’d like to see the legacy and history of Apollo live on, even if it’s just that iconic icon and a few sentences.
Maybe we could have an “Ode to Apollo” somewhere under the settings menu?
This would be a really nice gesture. I never thought I’d miss an app as much as I do Apollo. So tragic.
The muscle memory tho
I’ve accidentally opened it probably 15 times since the shut down
doomscroller located lol
Just replace the Apollo icon with Wefwef and you’ll open it instead.
Sometimes I forget I’m no longer using Reddit. It was such a smooth transition.
Just replace it with wefwef
Same. I was compelled to pick up a t-shirt recently as a gesture of thanks.
That would be fun!!
We just need a good ode
Absolutely agree. I came from Apollo, likely along most other users, so a tribute might be nice to show somewhere.
I came from Apollo, and I definitely appreciate that wefwef has helped my transition from Reddit to Lemmy be a little less painful.
I just want to ask though, is this app (a close copy of Apollo) ok with and sanctioned by Christian Selig?
I don’t think you can copyright look and feel of an app and they’re not using any Apollo branding / trademarks.
I’ve been wondering the same myself. Lots of the new apps popping up aren’t just heavily influenced by the functionality of Apollo, they’re directly cloning things like the icons, and the text in certain scenarios like when there’s no comments on a post and it says something like “it’s quiet… too quiet” or something like that. And when you view a comment and there’s a banner at the bottom saying it’s a single comment thread. The syntax is identical.
I’m not complaining because it really has made the transition to the fediverse very easy. But I know Christian put literally years of work into Apollo and I don’t want to feel like new developers are ripping that off.
I think it is pretty obvious when you visit the GitHub that it is Apollo based, and there is even an Apollo migration tool within the settings.
That would be nice
to have Washington on your side.
Hamilton was in NZ recently. It was so good!
/c/UnexpectedHamilton
(Not sure if I did that correctly)
How about adding “pixel pals” link to the settings tab like Apollo had? And we could link it to the app store (on ios ofc)
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I never enabled them, so I never really noticed. I didn’t feel like the app got noticeably worse. If anything, I got more comfortable with Apollo year after year and the old desktop site I was so familiar with was becoming less appealing over time.
I do understand how, after maintaining the same app as his main gig, he would want to work on something else after almost a decade - especially something with mainstream appeal. There are young folks in my family who got Pixel Pals (the standalone app) after seeing their friends have them. That’s huge.
I hope he does come back eventually to make some Fediverse stuff.
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Wasn’t the source of a lot of it the random undocumented changes Reddit kept making to their api? That’s my recollection of the various video and gifv bugs at least. Those were the only ones that were super annoying to me anyway.
My only disappointment from Christian is waiting for years for the mythical iPad update. :(
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Ah yeah that’s fair I’d be pissed too. Hopefully lemmy doesn’t inherit all that community lash back like the old place. Plenty of places over there will make you regret ever commenting.
I never really cared about all the later features he added to Apollo. I was an early adopter and had pro which was a one time purchase. Never saw the need when he rolled out the ultra stuff but it also didn’t bother me he found ways to monetize it without selling me as a product to marketing companies or whatever heh.
Bummer you had a lousy experience. Hopefully you and I both can feel more comfortable here :)
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