San Francisco:As many well-liked third-party apps on the social dialogue discussion board Reddit, together with the Apollo app, at the moment are shutting down because of the platform’s upcoming paid API (Software Programming Interface), followers are sending them off with heartfelt posts and memes.
“Apollo, probably the greatest iOS apps interval. The official app, a buggy, clumsy mess. I am about to be on reddit a complete lot much less,” a Reddit person wrote within the put up with a meme connected.
“The app simply stopped working for me. Tremendous unhappy, so lengthy and thanks for all of the Apollo,” one other person mentioned.
Yet one more person posted, saying: “Reddit is already much less pleasant. Apollo was Reddit. No different app has the identical degree of expertise. Such a disgrace. The official app is exceptionally horrible.”
Final month, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman hosted an AMA (Ask Me Something) session to debate the platform’s controversial API adjustments, confirming that Reddit just isn’t planning to revive its coming API pricing adjustments which have triggered a number of builders to announce they are going to be shutting down their apps.
Within the session, Huffman criticized Apollo’s developer, Christian Selig, for his “behaviour and communications”, and mentioned he could not think about Reddit working with him, TechCrunch reported.
Selig was among the many first to recommend that Reddit’s new API pricing would forestall Apollo from working, explaining that it will price him $20 million per yr.