If Reddit's own app wasn't such a hot steaming pile of dog shit, I wouldn't really mind third-party apps like Apollo going dark but it is. Reddit's own app is a hot steaming pile of dog shit that more often than not barely even works. And with the size of Reddit's own mobile app development team, you'd think that they'd be able to put something together that actually works. Meanwhile, you have one guy who's behind Apollo and it's one of the best Reddit apps ever made and has won multiple awards and has been showcased on the front page of Apple's Appstore multiple times. Talk about putting Reddit's own mobile app development team to absolute shame.
The bad part is that with the size of Reddit's development team, you'd think that they'd be able to put together a suite of tools that moderators need to properly moderate their respective communities, but they haven't. Apollo and other apps like it came to be because of a need that wasn't being fulfilled by Reddit themselves.
Again, we're going back to the fact that Reddit's own app is a hot steaming pile of dog shit.
Does anyone remember Alien Blue? Reddit bought it and took what was one of the best Reddit apps at the time and threw it into the woodchipper. What came out is what the Reddit app is today. A hot steaming pile of... well, you get it.