As a longtime Apollo user, I would love to know when this hits Test Flight!
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Unlike Apollo, will this be Free Software though?
Apollo did have a free tier and then a few paid tiers.
iirc, (I bought it many years ago), they had a one time Pro purchase that removed any ads and unlocked theming and such, and then the Ultimate which was a subscription to cover server costs of push notifications (although it did eventually end up having more features locked behind it).
While I personally did not go for the Ultimate subscription (didn’t really need the push notifications), I gladly paid for the Pro as it was well worth it IMO.
I think they meant Free as in Open Source
It's not exactly the same. The Free Software movement is about user freedom. Open Source is a term used by corporations to avoid mentioning that users should have rights.
Libre, not gratis
Yes, I meant freedom and not price: https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM
We want to be able to make sure the app doesn't do anything malicious (like spy on us) and be able to change it to fit out needs. Like we can with Lemmy.
Go to her mastodon. You can request to be a beta tester.
Just signed up - thanks for the tip!
Same, I'd love to beta test.
Never used Apollo, but great news to have multiple ways to interact.
About the app being proprietary or open source it shouldn't matter. The foundation is federated community, the ways to interact can be federated too. Mix of open source and proprietary.
That looks great! iOS and Android? Can’t wait to try ut!
Yep, iOS and Android! Also, all this work has been done in less than a week. It's crazy.
You just made my night! Thank you!!
Can't wait for this
why is the number of upvotes displayed separately from the upvote/downvote buttons? Same also for the comment count/button
Sounds awesome! I'm commenting, so I can find this thread later. I can't figure out how to bookmark it.
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Signed up for testing!
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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Yes! Can’t wait.
Now, let's wait for the Android one.......
It will be for both, friend.
Developing as x-plat codebase. And we have an equal split of beta testers across platform. So wanna prioritize em equally!
in the coming weeks there will be some waves of rollouts to testers. Hopefully we’ll go public not far from there :)
Native apps? Because I sure hope so.
And the race is on...
This looks super promising! I love the inspiration from Apollo being a user for many, many years. Looking forward to a testflight/release :)
Looks great!
Needs an option to move the arrows to the right-hand side so I can scroll with my thumb and tap the arrows with the same thumb. Also, needs a light mode, quick account changing, and community muting for when browsing All.
There is a light mode as well, I suggest joining the Discord server. Hariette is accepting ideas and feedback there.
If you use kbin on mobile and want this right now swap the layout to compact.
Ive been thinking about customizations like that while working on it. I want localization, so everything already has right to left support. I can use that piping to help w moving arrows.
Also, youll be able to double tap to vote ;)
(Community muting is a must for sure)
I never used Apollo since I've always been an Android user, so I don't know what features will be inspired from it, so I wanted to ask whether there would be in-app browser support for links so it doesn't open other apps? And will there be plans for gesture navigation support like the Relay and Joey apps?
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One thing I hated about Apollo was swiping gestures. I don’t use them and they get in the way so many times. Sometimes, I didn’t even know that I upvoted/downvoted a post unknowingly! I can’t disable it coz I’m a freeloade so I have no complaints.
I just want to suggest that it would be nice if you give users an option to disable the gestures if the app has them.
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Looking awesome! Apollo user here, so you know my excitement is through the roof!
Definitely get it into beta as soon as you can. Many of us are happy to beta test.
The more options the better. I'm excited to try the Android version.
Awesome!
Never used the og app dye to being an android user but I'll definitely give this one a shot.
awesome!
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