Currently sitting on the toilet and browsing reddit trough Apollo one last time 💔
It just went down :,( The rate limits are happening
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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Just when I was reading Christian’s farewell post too. All so needless. Oh well.. hello Lemmy!!
I went on Apollo to find it and realised it won’t load. Apollo went down while I slept
To be fair, they allegedly weren't profitable.
Which I prefer. I'd prefer a general communal forum to be non-profit, user supported, and moderation decentralized.
Allegedly, yes. Where did the millions of dollars of revenue go, from all the ads and sponsors (which completely infest their app)?
Reddit execs decided they needed thousands (?!) of employees, despite mods running the subreddits for free. They could never make an app as fully featured as those with literally one employee. And it took years for them to deliver promised features and mod tools (many are very recent or still unavailable).
Lemmy and Mastodon, and all their apps, are running thanks mostly to a few dozen awesome people and donations.
Where did Reddit's millions of dollars disappear to again? And how is that not damning proof of their current execs incompetence?
(Note: I direct this /rant in Reddit's general direction.)
It's easy to make $300,000,000 in funding into a "nonprofitable" company.
You just pay the people running it more than you have. Then usually claim loses on your taxes.
Any company can be unprofitable if you have 100x the staff you need working on features that make the site worse or are scams
Allegedly, but reddit also spent tons of money on stupid shit. My favorite example is their braindead stupid million dollar Superbowl ad, but they also doubled the number of employees to 1400 in 2021. And all they have to show for it is a slow, ugly website and a trashy, extra-monetized mobile app. Fuck em.
Oh definitely fuck em. I'm just saying, they didn't have a "good thing going" where they could just sit back and make millions.
They literally didn’t even try to be profitable (by charging for the API) until April when they suddenly wanted more money than was viable.
Reddit could have charged a sensible amount, or put ads in the API data, but instead they asked the impossible of the third party app developers. And I don’t think it was accidental.
Well, it’s time to move on I guess!
Rip Apollo and Reddit , welcome lemmy !
They shut the API off early. RIP Apollo.
Was not expecting to find it dead, and went to launch it one last time. Gut punch.
I wonder if Reddit shut it off early just to be spiteful bastards.
"Gut punch" feels weirdly accurate.
RIP Apollo and the rest of the 3rd party apps. I used Apollo everyday for the past couple of years and while I’m on here I still feel disbelief that it’s about to shut down.
never realized how perfect this meme format is for the situation that's currently ongoing
Had to remove RIF as well last night. Sad times.