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For anyone on iOS, Apollo is really essential if you want to use Reddit. Especially now with safari extensions, you can just set Reddit links to automatically o
by nseggs 5y ago
For anyone on iOS, Apollo is really essential if you want to use Reddit. Especially now with safari extensions, you can just set Reddit links to automatically open in Apollo.
- poglet 5y agoDo you know of a way that this can be done with Firefox on iOS?
- MrDunham 5y agoAgreed! Apollo is great (but I’m biased, see below.) I lived with Apollo’s dev for 3 months ~a decade ago and can say he was a super friendly, genuine guy and a was great roommate. Best of the ~500 people that came through our hacker house. Seems to really care about his users, too. So for all of Reddit’s dark patterns and anti user behavior it seems that he’ll do right by users. Really happy to see HN sending support for his product.
- germinalphrase 5y agoHappy Apollo user here.
- dt3ft 5y agoThanks, but no thanks. I am not installing an app just to view a website. I have a browser.
- nseggs 5y agoI am there for 9/10 cases, but needing to have a browser session logged in to Reddit at all times so that it defaults to old.reddit.com is pretty obnoxious on mobile. Apollo also surfaces far more functionality with far more immediacy than I can normally be bothered to interact with in a (mobile especially) browser session. I’m actually using the Hack app by Pranoy Chowdhury for Hacker News for many of the same reasons.
- salusinarduis 5y agoI'm the same way, but I finally gave in and tried Apollo. It's really well made and unrestricting. Would highly recommend it, even though I no longer need it, as I've switched to a freedom respecting distribution of Android.
- TedShiller 5y agolol so true. Apps are actually inferior for the user these days. Example: I can easily skip YouTube ads on the mobile YouTube website, so I use that. Can’t skip ads on the YouTube iOS app.