It’s not just Apollo: other Reddit apps are shutting down, too (from The Verge)
It’s not just Apollo: other Reddit apps are shutting down, too (from The Verge)
Like Apollo, they’re shutting down on June 30th.
I was a RIF user for as long as it's been around, and have had a Reddit account for 12+ years now. It's unfortunate to have to walk away, but I honestly had been hating it there for a while.
2Definitely. I work from home, so I use old.reddit most of the time, but any time I'm away from my machine, I'll use RIF. Wouldn't touch their app with a 10 foot pole, and in a mobile browser it isn't great either. Behind the scenes the whole place is crumbling.
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Hardly surprising. Any popular app is going to have enough users that it doesn’t make economic sense to stay. A niche app that’s halfway decent will soon have enough users they’ll need to fold to.
1Does anyone know if Infinity for Reddit is shutting down too?
0It's fairly safe to assume that all third party reddit apps will be shutting down. The price they've been quoted for API access is simply too high, and I don't think any of the devs are rich enough to keep it running out of their own pockets. I wouldn't be surprised to see some apps try to stay up, but I highly doubt they can last long term.
Either that or they'd have to start charging each user tons of money, and/or disabling free users entirely.
In the recent AMA it was said that apps that focus on accessibility might get free access, but based on what devs are saying about having trouble getting in touch with anyone at reddit, I wouldn't get your hopes up.
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