I’m still a bit shocked: following the announcement of Reddit to start charging insane fees for third-party API access, Apollo - probably the most popular Reddit app on iOS and the one I’m using on a daily basis - is shutting down.
The sad news are coming just a few days after the app was featured in the Apple WWDC keynote.
I can’t blame Apollo’s developer, Christian Selig, for giving up, and I’m afraid many other third-party apps will follow suit und shut down. Ultimately, this desperate grab for money will be a desaster for Reddit, as their own app and website is, frankly, unusable crap and I predict that lots of users will leave the platform or at least cut back their interaction, which is the beginning of the end for a social media platform.
Ironically, the day that Apollo will stop working is also almost exactly my Reddit “cake day” - at the end of June my Reddit account will be eight years old. Sadly, without Apollo I can’t see myself using Reddit very often in the future.