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    This looks super promising! I love the inspiration from Apollo being a user for many, many years. Looking forward to a testflight/release :)

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    Great job all involved! So happy to see people trying to make usability apps/features! The color indicators for chat are great!

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      So far all of the dev work has been done by Hariette herself. Full credit to her, I’m just promoting it because it really looks quite great in my opinion.

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    Every app that ever gets created for this will be called an Apollo “Clone” or “copy” and twenty years from now people will ask, “what was so special about Apollo”?

    You just had to be there I guess.

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      RIF user since the beginning. I hope to see them work on something for kbin Lemmy but I’m still excited about an Apollo clone.

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        I think he might just be burnt out and stressed right now. Being accused of making threats, being lied about publicly, and having something you worked really hard on have to shut down because the people lying about you wouldn’t be reasonable has all got to take a toll.

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    Awesome! I am looking forward to it, and I love that it’s made for both major platforms :-)

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    I’m in the majority, but I don’t even care if an app gets made (obviously I support it though). I used Apollo on Reddit, because Reddit’s mobile design was complete shit. However, Kbin and Lemmy actually look great in a mobile browser, so I really have no need for a separate app.

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      On iOS, the Lemmy web experience is temperamental at best and unnavigable at worst. Although you can put bookmark/icon on an iOS home page, there is no navigation option so that once you’ve linked into a thread there’s no way to get back to where you were. Even in a (safari-underpinned) browser the website seems to be very finnicky with back and forth navigation into and out of content. To be fair, this is an iOS problem, not a Lemmy/kbin problem, but it still increases friction for the mobile user.

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      I agree the Web browser is very similar, but IMO a dedicated app is going to be a much quicker and smoother experience.

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    Hoping for a RIF style theme, I really appreciated the simple information dense style it has