Thats very understandable and I have modified my reply above. Hopefully that is more agreeable and respectful of all this :)
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admiralteal@kbin.social 11 months agoHuh? The Apollo dev was very specific about why he couldn't make it work. The turnaround was too fast. He had users on multi-month and even annual subscriptions. Users who were effectively owed service by him. The new model would have caused all of those users into giant financial liabilities for him far beyond whatever revenue he earned from them.
If they'd give him 12 months notice about the changes instead of 30 days he would have been able to keep the app running. It would have cost quite a bit more as users would have had to pay for his costs plus the api costs. But with only 30 days the only financially sane thing he could do was refund everyone, rather than let them turn into liabilities he couldn't afford.
If you're wondering why he didn't refund all existing users and then roll out an update with the higher subscriptions... I mean, I'm sure he just didn't want to because he didn't feel like it after being forced to go through all that terribleness and repeatedly being defamed by the admins.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
oDDmON@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Actually kinda glad Apollo did go down, because it forced me to reassess that pool of toxicity and GTFO there.