There's a lot of armchair programmers who have not open sourced large projects before (let alone the size of Apollo) who claim it to be not a lot of work (come on bro just copy paste it on GitHub!), and as someone who has in the past, I don't really have any desire to debate that.

It is a lot of work, and I'd be doing it for a platform whose owners basically pushed me out. I'm sorry, but I'm really not interested. I wish Apollo would have been able to continue, but that ship sailed, and in the meantime I'm not looking to prop up the platform further with my work

I don't mind talking or asking about it at all, where did you see that? I just don't want to lull people into a fall sense of believing it's coming back, as I thought the reasons it was shut down were pretty obvious

You don't have to buy them, and I think they're pretty reasonably priced, just thought some folks would be interested in it

It's nice to use the Apollonouncement feature for something less depressing!

many people have been asking if they could have access to Apollo to hopefully make it work for them. many people have also tried to communicate with you on this sub with zero return from you

I've answered this question multiple times, even in this thread itself, so you not liking the answer, or being unable to look for it through the small amount of comments on my profile, is not the same as me ignoring it.

To repeat for the last time (I'm out, threads like these really hammer home the Redditor stereotype), there's two ways I could make it more easy to access Apollo: allow you to input your own API token, or open source it.

The first, Reddit outright said is not allowed. I have zero desire to fight with Reddit any longer.

The second, open sourcing, is a ton of work, and once done, can never be undone.

I wrote the app without the intention of open sourcing it, I'd have to go over the code and ensure there's nothing in there that I wouldn't want public. Apollo is almost 200,000 lines of code, that would be a massive effort to go over.

Further, there's no way to simply open source the app and only allow installations. Open sourcing it is fully letting the cat out of the bag. People could reupload copy cats to the App Store, a royal pain in the ass I've dealt with before when open sourcing apps, or someone could take it and reskin it for something disgusting. Or hell, even something as simple as Reddit themselves using the code to benefit themselves, they don't deserve the reward of kicking out developers then getting to use their code.

It no longer becomes something I made, but something that's a free for all for anyone to do with what they want, both for positive and for negative.

Why would I go through all that risk, effort, and trouble, to resurrect an app for a platform that kicked developers off of it?

Selling a plushie for an app I made doesn't seem right? Could you explain how you came to that conclusion? It's just a cool thing I thought people who enjoyed Apollo would enjoy, and quite a few have

I never said it's on sale, I said I'm temporarily making lifetime available as it's not an option I've offered in Pixel Pals for ages. I prefer to just go with the simpler subscription route, but some folks have a diehard preference for lifetime unlocks, so I'm making it available this weekend only if that's something you're into

Well, I can't conjure emails out of thin air, so you clearly inputted it into one of my signups, but there's an unsubscribe button at the bottom of the email

A bug with status detection, fix is pending approval with Apple already

Thanks, have some even more fun ones planned, like my first watchOS app! And yeah I hear you, there are times that it's really nice to be away from some of Reddit

Actually pretty soon hopefully!