For anyone on iOS, Apollo is really essential if you want to use Reddit. Especially now with safari extensions, you can just set Reddit links to automatically open in Apollo.
Agreed! Apollo is great (but I’m biased, see below.)
I lived with Apollo’s dev for 3 months ~a decade ago and can say he was a super friendly, genuine guy and a was great roommate. Best of the ~500 people that came through our hacker house. Seems to really care about his users, too.
So for all of Reddit’s dark patterns and anti user behavior it seems that he’ll do right by users.
Really happy to see HN sending support for his product.
I'm the same way, but I finally gave in and tried Apollo. It's really well made and unrestricting. Would highly recommend it, even though I no longer need it, as I've switched to a freedom respecting distribution of Android.
I am there for 9/10 cases, but needing to have a browser session logged in to Reddit at all times so that it defaults to old.reddit.com is pretty obnoxious on mobile. Apollo also surfaces far more functionality with far more immediacy than I can normally be bothered to interact with in a (mobile especially) browser session. I’m actually using the Hack app by Pranoy Chowdhury for Hacker News for many of the same reasons.
lol so true. Apps are actually inferior for the user these days. Example: I can easily skip YouTube ads on the mobile YouTube website, so I use that. Can’t skip ads on the YouTube iOS app.
I lived with Apollo’s dev for 3 months ~a decade ago and can say he was a super friendly, genuine guy and a was great roommate. Best of the ~500 people that came through our hacker house. Seems to really care about his users, too.
So for all of Reddit’s dark patterns and anti user behavior it seems that he’ll do right by users.
Really happy to see HN sending support for his product.