“When users are logged out, the app is still working because it does not use the OAuth client credentials while logged out,” developer Andrew Shu tells The Verge in an email. However, he expects that the app will stop working in this way soon.
Many third-party apps finally shut down on Friday.
“The venue is not near the epicenter of the protests, or any of the areas that have seen protest activity, and has continued to operate business as usual,” Twitch said on Twitter. The event is scheduled for July 8th and 9th.
The protests began earlier this week after a 17-year-old was shot by police.
“Since the latest “accessibility” update to the Reddit app, the amount and magnitude of new accessibility related bugs has made it virtually impossible for blind mods to operate on mobile,” the mods wrote. And since many third-party apps have shut down and one that had been granted an exemption for being accessibility-focused is apparently “impossible to log into,” they’re largely out of other options on mobile.
I had completely missed that TikTok added this feature. To flip it on for yourself, go to your profile, then Settings and privacy in the three lines menu, then Playback, and then toggle the Open TikTok on mute option.
I’m getting kind of melancholy reading posts about Reddit apps actually going kaput. It has been clear for awhile that Reddit wouldn’t budge, but part of me still hoped something would change before today.
Here’s a few of the threads I’ve seen.
Christian Selig wrote a eulogy on the Apollo subreddit paying tribute to his app, which will be shutting down sometime Friday. (As I write this, the eulogy is at the top of r/all.)
I’m really heartbroken with how this whole process unfolded, I truly drank the Kool Aid talking to Reddit at the beginning that this was something they were going into in good faith with the interest of developers, moderators, and the community as a whole, but as many people pointed out to me, it’s clear now that ultimately wasn’t their intent. If they wanted something that could work for everyone, they would have simply made an effort to listen, instead of being dishonest, callous, and punitive in pricing. I’m sorry to all the folks who, like me, lost Apollo abruptly as a result of this. I had so much more I wanted to do with this app!
Other users are memorializing the app (and others), too.
“Rate limits will go into effect for all apps with usage above the free limit in the coming weeks, and some changes will be noticeable over the next 24 hours,” Reddit said in a post on Friday.
I’m guessing that means developers of some third-party apps like Apollo and RIF will start shutting things down soon.
