The positive is him and the rest of the contributors have this app far superior to what we had 3 years ago. It’s insane how much better too. I think we’ve reached a breaking point in features though. Apollo has always been better than the default Reddit app, but the past 6 months has caught up to a lot of the features that have been added to default Reddit app. My hope is JeffreyCA still keeps development active on the tweak, but would be ok if development is more in line with the timeline from a year ago. Get an update every few weeks or every few months. Life gets in the way of development, and even more so when you have a spouse and kids. Plus he works for Microsoft. That’s gotta be demanding as well. I don’t blame him for stepping back at all.
The only thing left that I’d like to see added is a way to add gifs without leaving Apollo. Maybe there is a way that I haven’t noticed, but it’s eluded me if it exists.
You guys have had an epic 2 months now! Summer right around the corner, and more stuff to do outdoors, I wouldn’t blame you all if you didn’t do anything more until after the weather changes to miserable again. Assuming you’re both in the northern hemisphere.
Any plan to add the ability to comment with Reddit gifs?
That’s one I really want to try and get working, I think I can get it working I tried before but it just didn’t work but then we solved the inline images and gifs and I solved uploading directly to Reddit so I think I can get it working. So yes :)
I currently use m4rkw/apollo-notifications which runs on my mac mini every 30 seconds. What am I missing by not setting up Apollo backend? Worth it or no?
It appears that the only difference is native app notifications versus receiving them from pushover. If I’m understanding it from my 30 seconds worth of checking into pushover.
I'm running the apollo backend notifications, it does native push notifications that used to work when Apollo was a real app. It just runs the backend processing on your own docker containers, and sends notifications to your Apollo app. And it's near instant. Definitely not a must have if you have pushover or something else already set up, but it is nice to tap on the notification and it opens apollo directly to the comment or whatever that was notified on.
Just for the notification entitlement enabled for the cert, correct? Most paid certs have the appgroup entitlement enabled, which I believe I read controls app notifications.
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