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This is possibly my most-uninstalled app because it makes reddit too addicting for me to handle. Its popularity is certainly a comment on the problems with ove

This is possibly my most-uninstalled app because it makes reddit too addicting for me to handle. Its popularity is certainly a comment on the problems with overly JavaScript heavy web apps. Apollo’s biggest weakness is notifications. They don’t appear as quickly as they should and, for me, chat notifications don’t come through at all. I don’t prefer chat, but I’ve noticed an increasing number of users will open a chat with you instead of messaging you now. It also doesn’t support having multiple “tabs” open at once, although you can sort of hack it by using the main tab and the search tab. Hoping multiple tabs come to the eventual iPad-optimized release. But again, great app. Possibly too great for people with limited self-control!

habi 7y ago
> This is possibly my most-uninstalled app because it makes reddit too addicting for me to handle. That describes it perfect and is the same “problem” I have.
- pb7 7y ago
  +1 to that. I’m a huge Apollo fan and I do not have it installed solely for the fact that the UX is near flawless and I find myself scrolling mindlessly for hours. The Reddit mobile website is trash in comparison so I always leave after a few minutes.
acheron 7y ago
Reddit hasn’t opened the chat API so third-party apps can’t use it.
- 1123581321 7y ago
  Ah, that is unfortunate (and hopefully not how all new reddit features will be handled.) I’m glad to know it isn’t the developer’s fault.
iamthatis 7y ago
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.
- 1123581321 7y ago
  Hey! I know you’re working on it. I should have mentioned how good you are about community engagement and accepting feedback; we’ve interacted on other channels and a couple of my suggestions got in the app. :)
- markholmes 7y ago
  Is there or could there be a way to disable the Home and All buttons? I find Reddit to be much less of a time suck if I’m going to specific subreddits and reading interesting content, but I often just mindlessly browse All without thinking. I had to remove Apollo from my phone (even though I paid for it!) because I often find myself spending too much time doing nothing. My current solution is bookmarking a bunch of i.reddit.com URLs in Safari, but the experience is really poor. Thanks for making an app that I used for far too many hours.
  - jaflo 7y ago
    I think it would be interesting to disable the infinite scroll and either having a button to load the next page or disable loading the next page entirely.
    - rekoil 7y ago
      Never thought about it before, but that makes a lot of sense. The act of choosing to load another page might be enough for me to realise I should have gone to sleep about 2 hours prior.

habi 7y ago

> This is possibly my most-uninstalled app because it makes reddit too addicting for me to handle. That describes it perfect and is the same “problem” I have.

pb7 7y ago
+1 to that. I’m a huge Apollo fan and I do not have it installed solely for the fact that the UX is near flawless and I find myself scrolling mindlessly for hours. The Reddit mobile website is trash in comparison so I always leave after a few minutes.

acheron 7y ago

Reddit hasn’t opened the chat API so third-party apps can’t use it.

1123581321 7y ago
Ah, that is unfortunate (and hopefully not how all new reddit features will be handled.) I’m glad to know it isn’t the developer’s fault.

iamthatis 7y ago

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.

1123581321 7y ago
Hey! I know you’re working on it. I should have mentioned how good you are about community engagement and accepting feedback; we’ve interacted on other channels and a couple of my suggestions got in the app. :)
markholmes 7y ago
Is there or could there be a way to disable the Home and All buttons? I find Reddit to be much less of a time suck if I’m going to specific subreddits and reading interesting content, but I often just mindlessly browse All without thinking. I had to remove Apollo from my phone (even though I paid for it!) because I often find myself spending too much time doing nothing. My current solution is bookmarking a bunch of i.reddit.com URLs in Safari, but the experience is really poor. Thanks for making an app that I used for far too many hours.
- jaflo 7y ago
  I think it would be interesting to disable the infinite scroll and either having a button to load the next page or disable loading the next page entirely.
  - rekoil 7y ago
    Never thought about it before, but that makes a lot of sense. The act of choosing to load another page might be enough for me to realise I should have gone to sleep about 2 hours prior.