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Re:Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed by 1123581321 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @11:17AM (#22342184)
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!

Re:Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed by iamthatis on Sunday February 16, 2020 @12:41PM (#22342705)
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.

Re:Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed by markholmes on Sunday February 16, 2020 @02:34PM (#22343329)
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.

Re:Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed by jaflo on Sunday February 16, 2020 @04:55PM (#22343985)
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.
Re:Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed by rekoil on Monday February 17, 2020 @03:49AM (#22346401)
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.
Re:Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed by 1123581321 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @12:44PM (#22342724)
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. :)
Re:Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed by _rs on Sunday February 16, 2020 @05:54PM (#22344244)
How about fixing Apollo's existing messaging features first anyways? It is very frustrating to use.
Re:Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed by iamthatis on Sunday February 16, 2020 @06:35PM (#22344410)
Could you elaborate?
Re:Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed by _rs on Sunday February 16, 2020 @10:27PM (#22345359)
Refreshing the inbox tab is very hit or miss: one refresh I'll see a message, next refresh it will disappear. Often when I receive a message, going into the chat view does not display the message until after multiple attempts.
Re:Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed by acheron on Sunday February 16, 2020 @11:54AM (#22342392)
Reddit hasn’t opened the chat API so third-party apps can’t use it.
Re:Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed by 1123581321 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @12:37PM (#22342673)
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.
Re:Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed by habi on Sunday February 16, 2020 @11:22AM (#22342218)
> 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.

Re:Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed by pb7 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @11:52AM (#22342382)
+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.