Apollo for Reddit dev Christian Selig to join Digg as an advisor

Christian Selig, the iOS developer who ran the beloved third-party Reddit client Apollo, is joining the new iteration of Digg as an advisor. Earlier this year, Digg’s original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian acquired what was left of Digg in an attempt to revitalize what was formerly known as “the internet’s homepage.” Rose and Ohanian were already a fascinating pairing — the two had previously seen each other as rivals, since Digg and Reddit were fierce competitors. By adding Selig to the mix, Rose and Ohanian are further signaling that the new Digg wants to shake things up. Selig played a prominent role in the backlash against Reddit’s increased API pricing in 2023, which made free apps like Apollo — which offered an enhanced browsing experience for Reddit users — impossible to run. In a Reddit post that went viral, Selig told users that in order to keep Apollo running as-is under the new API pricing, he would need to pay about $1.7 million per month. Needl ... Read full article.