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They did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Blue

The problem is that BigCos destroy the 3rd party apps that they acquire. The same thing happened after Twitter acquired Tweetie.

Indie devs and BigCos have vastly different incentives. Simply acquiring an app won't help, because the app will no longer be developed and managed by an indie dev. Wreckage is inevitable.

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not that I particularly disagree with your premise, but alien blue had been somewhat abandonware for quite a while before reddit bought it. It had trouble with basic markdown like tables, let alone new features that made it increasingly less great before reddit bought them out.

In all this news, I completely forgot that I used to use Alien Blue before Reddit acquired it. That was actually what made me try out the official reddit app for a while, before switching to Apollo.

I still use it as my main app, and I’ll do so until it’s shut down.

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