Christian has released a final update to Apollo with the option to opt out of the refund. I urge everybody that was happy with his contribution to our community to do so since he will have to refund out of his own pocket. And yes, this was for an entire year of the app, but he did I no way know that Reddit was going to change the pricing beforehand when he even asked them what the future for Reddit and Apollo would look like back in the beginning of the year and apparently Reddit said that there wouldn’t be any major changes in 2023!?

Also, the amazingly talented artists of the Apollo icons have contributed with good bye wallpapers that you can get for a donation ❤️

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      I’m currently trying out the app wefwef which is inspired by Apollo for the fediverse. I’m surprised how much better it makes browsing the fediverse feel compared to native browser sites. This gave me a lot of hope for the future here. I’m also a fan of the Memmy App which I’m also testing!

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    Man, Christian is such an inspiration to me, what a great guy. I hope he has success in all of his future projects.

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    For some reason I’m no my getting this pop up, and the notification tab is glitching out. I tipped him $10 since I don’t seem to be able to opt out of paying.

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    I have pro, but not ultra. Haven’t been able to unlock my purchase since I got my new iPad. Maybe that’s why I’m not getting the pop up now.

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    One of the few apps where I could actually see where the monthly subscription fee was was earned with constant updates and improvements.

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    You know, if he could find a way to re-hook Apollo over to one or more Lemmy instances, I think Apollo would immediately become the default Lemmy client for a whole lot of people. What’s more, I expect that a fairly large subset of those people still haven’t even heard about Lemmy yet, and would suddenly be creating new accounts. That would also help to incentivize people to grant his request, and turn down the refund.

    Just a thought. I know there would by necessity be an awful lot of work involved to make such a thing happen… but it would probably be worth it.

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      Numerous people have asked, Christian’s reply is that he’s not looking at it right now. Honestly, his replies sound like he’s going to take a day long nap on the 1st before thinking about anything else.

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        I kind’a wouldn’t blame him if he did that. The level of vitriol aimed at him in the comment sections of various articles that I’ve read on this topic is positively staggering. People can be really awful sometimes… and people who are seemingly uninformed and/or misinformed, even more so.

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    In the grand scheme of history, this is nothing. But it’s hard not to feel like I’m living through a huge moment.

    The news, connections, answers, laughter, sadness, shock, joy–all of it–that this app delivered to me will be fondly cherished.

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        I’ve looked at it a little bit, I’d prefer an app app instead of a web app, but it seems pretty solid for what it is.

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          It is an app when you install it. There literally is no downside of using a PWA over a native app