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Different incentives. Apollo was made by someone who loved making software and wanting to build something nice for people. Reddit is made by a corporation interested only in extracting as much wealth from the platform as possible, with as little regard for users as they can get away with.

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For a while, until he made sure every holiday stuffed the app with a repeating pop-up (think 5+ times over the holiday) that asked users to subscribe. Even users that already paid for the “Pro” version.

I forgot what he did when Apollo closed down but it was another big moneygrab.

The app itself always stayed pretty great, but the steady ramp up in monetization got increasingly annoying over the years.

I remember the reports in r/apollo but I never experienced those issues myself. I don't know the guy personally so I can't make a judgement on if he was lying about that being a bug or not, but whatever the case it certainly wasn't something every user experienced.

Interesting, I used Apollo literally every day from launch to shutdown and did not have the same experience as you at all.

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