iamthatis's comments

I think you're talking about two separate things, it collapses when you tap because… well that kinda makes sense, there's a button to tap to collapse on the website so I just made the tap target bigger, there's not much else use for a tap. The second thing where slow scrolling can register as a tap and thus collapse it… yeah that's annoying as hell, I know what you're talking about and I'm working to fix it.

I'd probably same the same for me too, but I think what draws in the average person is the posts on Reddit more than anything, even if the comments are also gems.

Apollo dev here, no it doesn't, not sure what some people are talking about.

Apollo doesn't have any ads or do this, not sure what that person is talking about. (Apollo dev)

Could you elaborate?

Apollo dev here, like what?

Started working on it in 2014 then moving to full time in 2015 when I graduated university, then in late 2017 finally released it. :D So been full time about 4.5 years at this point.

Electron wouldn't be a great idea since it doesn't work on iOS. React Native would be something to consider, but I've never been super impressed by any of the results (and it comes with a bunch of issues in and of itself, and to my knowledge isn't compatible with macOS like UIKit is now) so I'd change nothing in that regard.

I'm working on an iPad app that takes better advantage of what it can offer, for sure. As it stands it's basically a blown up version of the iPhone app with an extra day's work tacked on top, the new version I'm working on is a ton better. :)

Thanks, apologies for your loss in productivity. :P Great criticism too, re: notifications being a bit slow, that's something I'm working to improve; being an iOS dev the backend web stuff isn't my strongest programming suit, so I'm working to improve that or at least get someone who knows more to be able to help me there.

Chat's a little trickier, I've talked to Reddit about that and they don't seem particularly interested in granting access to third party devs for whatever reason, even though they have an open API for basically everything else, and they said a few years back they were looking into it.

Yo, Apollo dev here. Could you clarify a bit? There's a setting to make Apollo always use reader mode for websites, and you can create/edit/view multireddits in Apollo as well, I don't think Alien Blue even had multireddit support? (https://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/2kd9yz/does_alie...)

Yo, Apollo dev here. FWIW there's no team, just me.

To answer some of these, Apollo was created well before the Reddit redesign, I started working on it back in 2014.

I'm not sure I 100% understand the criticism though. Inviting you to scroll through an app is a pretty normal thing, isn't it? What's the alternative?

I'm gathering you'd prefer more of a comments-focused experience rather than one focused around the posts themselves specifically? I've been on Reddit for over a decade, as far as I remember the posts have always been paramount and what attract people to the site, even though the discussions are great too. They're just a tap away. As you mentioned you can go into compact mode, then disable the thumbnails and you've basically got Hacker News, haha.

Your criticism seems like more of a comment on Reddit as a platform/community rather than a specific app (though I'm not sure what you mean by "old Reddit", Alien Blue?), but if I'm wrong about that I'm happy to hear any criticism.

Hey, I made this! Cool to be on HN. :D Thanks for all the kind words.