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I've seen the app Apollo as the center of the reddit protest (it was mentioned and cited more than any other app in relevant posts). I've also seen many Lemmy clients in development taking inspiration from it.

As a lifetime Android user I've never been able to use it, and I've never gotten a proper answer to "why not just use the official app?" What made it different from the official application and other unofficial clients that consequently made it so popular among Redditors?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't really know. I had an iPad for a year and I had to keep using Apollo for images and Narhwall for text. Nothing could replace my beloved Relay

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

would be curious to hear about it... I usually used web ui and only left reddit because of their approach of dealing with the community. Didn't personally suffered any inconvenience due to api shenanigans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve been using old.reddit since 2008, even after the onset of mobile. The normal UI aka “new reddit” is horrifying and from what I can see the app is the same. There are various features missing in the new web interface as well as various situations where it restricts or lies to you, such as if you’re not signed in and it’s “mature content” or “unreviewed content” and it won’t let you view it - then go to old.reddit and you can view it with no difficulty. But anyway the writing is on the wall that they’re not going to support that interface forever, so might as well give up now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My experience with the mobile web was it constantly trying to get me to switch to the app.

This is the end of reddit on mobile for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've used Apollo since 2016, when I wanted to add a picture to my comment, I had just to touch the image icon to do it. Using Reddit's official app I can't find the way to upload a image to my comment (not to a post). It's the same with nested comments, Apollo has a rainbow themed (customizable) nested comments, so it's easy to navigate throw comments, but official one is just a subtle line almost invisible that difficult the reading experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it became the center of the protest simply because it was the most popular Reddit iOS app and the developer actively spoke out against accusations from the Reddit CEO.

In terms of why it was so popular I can only tell you my own experience which started with bacon reader which like most Reddit apps at the time mostly mimicked the old reddit site. Then I switched to alien blue which used more of the iOS best practices such as larger buttons, swipes, etc. When alien blue turned into the official Reddit app, it became bloated with ads, suggested posts and other annoyances. At which point I switched to apollo which had the similar nice UI without the baggage of the official app.

But honestly I think I only got off the official app because of something annoying with collapsing threads that I have since forgotten.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

When I was still on Android I used to use Slide for Reddit and later Reddit Is Fun (RIF) as the official app was just full of ads and lacks so many customizability options, and later it started pushing content I wasn't even subscribed to. (I kept an eye on it) also it showed ads in the interface, despite me having reddit gold or premium or whatever they called it.

Then 2 years ago I got a second hand iPhone to play with and found Apollo which, while not like RIF, was a great app to browse reddit with. Speedy, responsive, customizable, a great image viewer and video player and with Apollo Premium, no ads.

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