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Christian Selig

Here's a little sneak peek for what would have been Apollo for iPad. You have stackable panes allowing you to easily view and move through multiple things at once (or go full screen!), Gallery Mode, and sections are moved to the side, with support for opening new tabs

Apollo for iPad picture, showing a tab bar on the left of the different app sections, with tabbed browsing support underneath with tabs for r/AskReddit and r/NintendoSwitch, and right of that you have two panes open, one of the StardewValley subreddit with its banner, icon, and description at the top, and the other a post from the subreddit.
39 comments
Yury Molodtsov

@christianselig This would have been great

I'm not crying, it's just someone's ego in my eye

pdgill

@christianselig Missing Apollo every hour of every day :(

Jason Cox

@christianselig God damn, man. That would have been glorious.

(ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧*:・゚✧

@christianselig I’m loving Mona for Mastadon, I would kill for Apollo for lemmy!

JustMrLarz

@tweece @christianselig An Apollo’s for Lemmy and/or KBin would have been sweet!

lackthought

@tweece @christianselig an official Apollo app would be amazing

Memmy, Mlem, and Voyager are three pretty decent lemmy apps that all seem to be Apollo-inspired if you want a partial experience

(ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧*:・゚✧

@lackthought @christianselig I’ve been using mlem and it’s just ok. Definitely needs a lot of time in the oven

John Conway

@americanjesus @christianselig yeah, I have another “not Apollo” app, Memmy for Lemmy. But it’s not Apollo.

Robert Jan Schutten

@christianselig Now you’re just making me sad. Oh can you bring the store back for Apollo shirts? I missed it as I was out of town on vacation (didn’t want to order & have it delivered while I was away).

Philipp

@christianselig oh it’s cruel-day today isn’t it? 😂

Christian Selig

The gesture system felt so great and natural (inspired by
Loren Brichter’s 2011 Tweetie for iPad). Really nice physics and weight, and automatically adapted to iPhone size. Took so long to get right. Quick demo:

The app was still rough in many areas, but I loved where it was going

John ✅

@christianselig that looks dope! Shame it never saw the light of day… 😔

Josh Hrach

@christianselig It would’ve been a great iPad app. At least you have all of these tricks to apply to your future projects, whatever they may be.

Brian Hough

@christianselig So bummed this died before it even had a chance! Looks like it would have been a real throwback to the early glory days of apps optimized for iPad.

Evan

@christianselig This is fantastic looking. Really a shame they wouldn’t play ball in anyway. Their apps blow in comparison.

Rich

@christianselig how hard would it be to modify the app to support the fediverse? Lemmy and Mastadon can always use higher quality apps.

Jon Duenas

@christianselig This alone would have made me want to buy an iPad 😢

Dallas Groot

@christianselig have you considered just revamping for the fediverse?

Darin Warling :verified:

@christianselig You *could* rename it “Apollo for iPad for Lemmy”…

Ernesto Monasterio

@christianselig This would have been so good on my iPad mini. We need more apps thoughtfully designed for iPadOS. I’m sad we will never get to experience this.

beezy :archlinux: :cupofcoffee:

@christianselig I’ll be honest, the whole #Reddit debacle started my journey of getting off social media and for that, I’m happy. I literally haven’t been on Reddit (other than reading a few posts because of answers I was looking for) in forever. Haven’t logged in since the API announcement but I miss Apollo so much. It was such a great client.

Derek

@christianselig that would have been a great experience. Too bad things turned it the way they did. Do you have any plans to create a Mastodon app? I really miss your gesture based navigation from Apollo 😩😭

Jack Roberts :computerfairies:

@christianselig Please bring the Apollo core to a Lemmy client. That would have been amazing 🥲

Chris Ross

@christianselig glad we don’t get to have that, would have been horrible. Lucky Reddit saved us 😭

infix

@christianselig loved and miss Apollo Christian. Not tempted to build a Lemmy app?

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