I think if he wanted to, he would. I wouldn’t be surprised if he wants to take a break and/or look for a more stable job. I wouldn’t expect anything soon or ever personally.
He has a number of successful apps beyond Apollo, so I hope that they will tide him over until his next project. I would love the story arc where he returns and exacts vengeance on Reddit but I would definitely not blame him for never touching social media again.
I just hope he opensources apollo in it’s entirity. I would say there is no reason for him not to. Maybe this app can pick the best parts from the codebase and integrate it into this app.
There’s a great reason for him not to: he can create a paid Lemmy client based on the code. Dude made way too much money on that piece of software to just give it away.
Definitely. I think once he picks himself up after the initial shock of it all, he’d probably give it a go if demand calls for it. He was very passionate about Apollo, I don’t think it’s going to die here and now, nor do I think he wants it to die.
Tapbots went through the same thing with Tweetbot -> Ivory.
It’s just really hard to give up labour of love projects, especially ones that you’ve invested the last decade into.
Eh, it depends. Sometimes a lot of the API is integrated with the components and adapting a new API means tearing apart the entire codebase.
For example, Lemmy-UI has an open PR to replace the websockets API with the HTTP one and it’s a huge change. And that’s just switching a type of API for the same backend – not switching the entire backend!
I think if he wanted to, he would. I wouldn’t be surprised if he wants to take a break and/or look for a more stable job. I wouldn’t expect anything soon or ever personally.
He said he wants to take a break in one of his detailed posts about the whole state of the app and Reddit. I don’t blame him.
He has a number of successful apps beyond Apollo, so I hope that they will tide him over until his next project. I would love the story arc where he returns and exacts vengeance on Reddit but I would definitely not blame him for never touching social media again.
I just hope he opensources apollo in it’s entirity. I would say there is no reason for him not to. Maybe this app can pick the best parts from the codebase and integrate it into this app.
There’s a great reason for him not to: he can create a paid Lemmy client based on the code. Dude made way too much money on that piece of software to just give it away.
I love Mlem so far but if Apollo came back converted to Lemmy, i would at least try out both.
Definitely. I think once he picks himself up after the initial shock of it all, he’d probably give it a go if demand calls for it. He was very passionate about Apollo, I don’t think it’s going to die here and now, nor do I think he wants it to die.
Tapbots went through the same thing with Tweetbot -> Ivory. It’s just really hard to give up labour of love projects, especially ones that you’ve invested the last decade into.
It seems like a no-brainer to me. He’s already don the hard UI work, adapting to a new API is pretty trivial by comparison.
Eh, it depends. Sometimes a lot of the API is integrated with the components and adapting a new API means tearing apart the entire codebase.
For example, Lemmy-UI has an open PR to replace the websockets API with the HTTP one and it’s a huge change. And that’s just switching a type of API for the same backend – not switching the entire backend!
I hope not. He’s spent a lot of time on it and I’d not want to see Reddit swipe that code.
Fair enough