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Did Christian mention anything about opensourcing the client?

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IIRC, he open sourced the server backend.

Edit: apparently I do not recall correctly. I remember someone saying something about open source, and he posted something to github. I incorrectly linked the two. Thanks to those posted more accurate information below.

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I’m not sure if “open sourced” is the right word(s) here. I can’t find a license in the repository, so it is not released as open source and the code can’t be used without breaching copyright.

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I’m pretty sure it was only done to prove Reddit wrong re: scraping and abusing the API (and all those silly accusations they made against Apollo).

He still owns the rights to it AFAIK.

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Server back end? What does that do? I thought Apollo would just take directly to Reddit’s servers?

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Iirc it was mostly about storing some user preferences and providing push notifications.
Reddit apparently has no async API for notifications, so 3rd party apps are forced to regular polling.

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