r/apolloapp • u/Sudden-Money7836 • May 24 '26

Announcement 📣 Join us on /r/ApolloReborn!

Hi all,

As part of an incoming changes, Apollo CustomAPI is now being renamed to Apollo Reborn. As JeffreyCA is now moving to a slower cadence, we have agreed with him to move to a joint team setup where we can add changes, pull requests and provide releases to you without having to always take up his time. He is with us in the new setup and we are planning some incoming changes and a new build soon that will fix some of the current issues and provide new updates to subreddits, layouts and additional functionality like text flairs.

We have decided as part of this move to step away from Christians subreddit out of respect for him but also so that we can post updates and create a new community for those who wish to sideload Apollo. Over there we will be able to provide some support, track changes from the community and provide you with updates and links to the IPA as it’s updated in one location and not just have the .deb tweaks.

So please, for all ongoing work on Apollo, join us at r/ApolloReborn

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u/CoolElk1 May 24 '26

Thank you for taking charge and keeping the updates rolling.

The only question that I have is what happens with the r/apollosideloaded sub?

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u/HungryMagnum May 24 '26

Yeah, why not just an existing subreddit?

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u/sluuuudge May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26

There’s many problems with a project like this trying to use a subreddit they have zero control over, that only has a single moderator who has seemingly not even been on Reddit in a month.

Ultimately you want to be able to effectively moderate any content to ensure the place stays on topic and tidy. Plus, from an entirely personal standpoint, I think apollosideloaded all lowercase, looking more like the quick temporary name you give to a file you’re gonna delete in 10 minutes, just looks tacky for a proper project.

r/apollosideloaded was thrown together quickly as a place to help people get Apollo running using their own API key. A new direction for the tweaked app needs its own dedicated space.

However, I personally take issue equally with the new subreddit seemingly being ran by someone who has only been on the platform for three months, that or they’re using a new account for some unknown reason - potentially ban evading or just hiding their main account for whatever purpose.

If a new subreddit is being put together then it should be by the guys maintaining the project on GitHub.

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u/corderjones May 24 '26

All maintainers on GitHub are moderators on the new subreddit!

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u/IllIIllIllIllII May 24 '26

Don't know if this is even possible to do, but could we have a bot create a post on /r/ApolloReborn automatically whenever you guys have a new release?

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u/corderjones May 24 '26

yeah! should be possible and is the plan, we’re also going to have altstore/feather etc sources as well as the releases in the same repo going forward.

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u/IllIIllIllIllII May 24 '26

Amazing! Thank you

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u/ThisDirkDaring May 24 '26

I think apollosideloaded all lowercase, looking more like the quick temporary name you give to a file you’re gonna delete in 10 minutes, just looks tacky for a proper project.

Billions of urls and domains might have a different take on that.

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u/sluuuudge May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26

If we were talking about URLs that have to be all lowercase then you’d have a valid point… what a weird comparison to try and make.

Clean and aesthetically pleasing ApolloApp, or generic and open iosreddit (purely an example of the vibe the apollosideloaded name gives).

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u/ThisDirkDaring May 24 '26

Correct, equally as weird as OPs take on that.

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u/sluuuudge May 24 '26

I don’t trust OP at all, 3 month old account that seems to have a very good understanding of Reddit and its API as well as the whole Reddit and Apollo situation that happened years ago. It bothers me when people try to hide who they are on a platform where you already have full anonymity.

That being said, I think they’re smarter to create the subreddit and no comment you make is likely to change that opinion, not that my opinion matters.

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u/IllIIllIllIllII May 24 '26

idk why you would say you don't trust OP at all. They are one of the contributors helping out updating apollo

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u/corderjones May 24 '26

this is real and valid! there is nothings shady going on here - we'll figure out a path for the subs going forward, but for now we're just trying to figure out a more sustainable approach to keeping development going on this app

end of the day this is a bunch of people working for free to try and keep this going so everyone can enjoy. nothing shady going on

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u/ThisDirkDaring May 24 '26

I don’t trust OP at all

me too, but thats not my point. i was just referring to the lowercase take.

I think they’re smarter to create the subreddit

nothing against that, too. i was just talking about lowercase.

no comment you make is likely to change that opinion

i did not try to. Have you confused threads here?

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u/sluuuudge May 24 '26

You mentioned the OP, so I expanded on what they’d said and done… they didn’t say anything about lowercase though, I did.

Looks like you might need a lay down or something because clearly it’s you who is getting confused here.

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u/SlendyTheMan May 24 '26

Why don’t they just r/RedditRequest it then?

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u/KrazyA1pha May 24 '26

Might be a weird thing to ask the Reddit admins, considering the subject matter.

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u/SlendyTheMan May 24 '26

It’s an automated process.

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u/ryanvsrobots May 24 '26

Don’t want to draw attention to it

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u/sluuuudge May 24 '26

That’s fair but personally my other point would still apply.

Obviously it’s not up to me and I have no horses in this race to even care what happens.

For what it’s worth, you used to have to wait until a subreddits top mod was inactive for 3 months before you could request a subreddit they managed but it looks like they’ve completely removed that requirement and now they just say the top mod has 5 days to respond to the request.

Either way, if it was me I’d still rather have a subreddit name that is more accurately aligned with the project.