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They bought Alien Blue and turned it into the official app. I'm sure if they bought Apollo they would find a way to introduce all sorts of bugs (and worse, anti

• catchnear4321 3y ago
  yes, but this is just the ebb and flow of a corporate application ecosystem. times are tough, pressure increasing, who knows, reddit might be hoping for a bargain basement price for buying a competitor to reboot their mobile ux. a new competitor will arise to fill that void. some jaded user writes something better, at no cost to the company, inspired by what once was and what could be - the virtuous cycle of growth begins anew. …oh right, that would require non-cost-prohibitive third party access. welp…
• cowsup 3y ago
  They bought Alien Blue, made it official, and then completely re-wrote the app from the ground-up into what we have today. I don't even understand why they bought Alien Blue; it seems as though nothing from that app made it into the eventual standalone Reddit app we have today. If you downloaded Alien Blue on an old device, you can still use it today, because the standalone Reddit app is a separate application in the app store altogether.
  • nemothekid 3y ago
    >I don't even understand why they bought Alien Blue; I'm pretty sure they bought the audience. Reddit did not have an app before this, and Alien Blue was by far the most popular one. It was subsequently abandoned and that's how Apollo was born. Even Apollo doesn't have some of the features that Alien Blue had.