Goodbye RIF - Talklittle's Goodbye to Reddit is Fun users

From the site:

RIF going away song for June 2023: Jay Park - Yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATuP6CE0vxM

A message Thank you everyone for your support since 2009.

Thank you to /u/anon_smithsonian in particular for taking care of everyone on /r/redditisfun.

RIF, you’re quirky and rough around the edges, but you’ve always gotten the job done. You know how to get out of the way and show people the articles, discussions, pictures, and videos they came for.

You have the silliest name, but we love you all the more for it. RIF will always be fun in our hearts.

RIF has been so much of my life.

I’m honored that so many of you have felt the same way.

Thank you for sharing this journey with me. It’s been fun.

(This space will be updated on July 1.)

talklittle,

Thank you for posting this here. Really heartwarming to receive so much kindness.

Let's be optimistic for the future of Internet communities. Technology evolves and puts more power into the hands of the users. Excited to see what's next.

V4uban,

Thank you for your work

vinceman, (edited )

I refuse to uninstall the app. Free user for many years, thank you for the app and all your work.

Edit: Lemmy is Fun?

greatwhitebuffalo41,
@greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net avatar

Thanks for all your hard work :)

anteaters, (edited )

Thanks for all the work you put into RIF. I joined Reddit in 2008 and used RIF daily from the very start of it.

pgetsos,
pgetsos avatar

Thank you for all these years. Hope to see a Kbin ompatible app one day!

yotes,

Echoing the others, but thank you for putting RiF together. It's been a pleasure to use since I joined Reddit back in 2015.

TOUnail,

I saw that you were developing an app for Tildes. I believe it was called 3Cheers or something along those lines. I just wanted to say good luck and I hope your future endeavors are way more successful than redditisfun.

I'm on both here and Tildes so I'll be looking forward to where this leads.

FoxFairline,
@FoxFairline@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Many thanks for all the years browsing reddit the right way. Wishing you all the best in your future endevours!

NeighborOfTheBeast,

Jumping on the bandwagon here. Sad to see the current state lead to the end of RiF. The app has been a huge part of my internet addiction. Thank you for all the years of development and patience.

groggy,

You're seriously an unreal dev. I have loved your product and have used it every day for a long long time. I can't wait to see what your next project is! I will be supporting it 100%

TheAmishMan,
@TheAmishMan@lemmy.world avatar

Glad to share it! Thank you so much for your hard work, I cannot overstate how much I loved your app. I'm sure you've been getting this bunch but seriously the experience on Reddit is fun was what made Reddit. I have barely used it ever on a computer and have never really experienced it any other way. It is by far the number one used to have on my phone and losing access to it is losing access to Reddit for me. I'd love to know about any other projects that you're working on because the quality and simplicity of your product was what made the experience so great all these years!

Helldiver_M,
Helldiver_M avatar

Thank you for giving us such a good mobile experience on reddit. RIF suited my needs perfectly and I am both sad to see it go and excited for whatever the future holds.

Rogue_General,

This is your app? You're awesome dude, RiF was the only way I browsed reddit on my phone. Thank you for the years of joy and I wish you success in all your future endeavors.

doctortofu, (edited )
doctortofu avatar

Rif was reddit for me. It was how I accessed it 99.9% of the time. By far the most used app on all my phones for more than a decade. I'm extremely sad that this is how it dies, but all things must end, it seems. Rest in peace old friend. And rot in pieces reddit, for killing the best goddamned app I've ever used...

Coskii,

As soon as I heard RIF was shutting down I left reddit altogether. I don't have strong feelings about the official app one way or the other but the way in which the execs at reddit decided to handle this situation was more than enough to get me to move.

I_Miss_Daniel,
I_Miss_Daniel avatar

I'm sure I had it many years before this image from 2016 - it's always had a place on my home screen since the original Galaxy Tab 1. (which is still going today as an SMS device at a radio station.)

Replaced with /kbin PWA for now.

Dewopalis,
Dewopalis avatar

Dude I had the exact same tablet with rif back in the day

I_Miss_Daniel,
I_Miss_Daniel avatar

It was a comically large phone at the time (7") - OLED screen, excellent speakers.

Cyzaine,
Cyzaine avatar

Couldn't have said it better. Rip Rif

Xeelee,
Xeelee avatar

I've been using Sync, but I feel the same. But it's all water under the bridge now. Reddit is over and it's time to move on.

unfnknblvbl,

It was how I accessed it 99.999999% of the time.

FTFY. The only time I didn't, was when I was accessing it for work, or when somebody sent me a Reddit link after the company started infesting all mobile web users with that app-only bullshit. :(

vinceman,

Really? I always opened reddit links from google on RiF.

Dewopalis,
Dewopalis avatar

Same for me. I originally downloaded some rage comics app on a Galaxy Gio which basically just pulled from f7u12 (remember those days lol). I kept seeing references to reddit and went and downloaded the first app I could find. 11 years later RIF has been my most used app on every device and I'm gonna miss it

vinceman,

Actual exact same story lol. Love you RiF, best app ever made.

Kill_joy,
Kill_joy avatar

100% agree. It was the only way I viewed Reddit for 11 years.

The day that pop-up appeared saying it was shutting down I set all the (small) subs I moderated to private, deleted my account, and came on over here. What a fucking shame.

ivanafterall,
ivanafterall avatar

Yes, I'm sure Apollo was great, but I never even knew it existed until this whole fiasco, because I jumped to RIF when it was still "Reddit Is Fun" and never looked back, because it did everything I needed, perfectly.

iwasborninafactory,

I used RIF, Boost, and Apollo. Whatever. I'll try anything once.

We didn't hear from RIF or Boost as much because I think they thought reddit was negotiating in good faith, and they would come to a compromise that didn't shut down their app. That was never in the plan for reddit, and they lost a few weeks of talking to people about what was happening.

DBT,
DBT avatar

I’ve used both RIF (10-15 years ago) and Apollo (last 8 years or so). They are and were light years ahead of the official app. At this point I’m just like, “OK, bye bitch” with Reddit.

LostCause,

I used Apollo the last years, but I had an Android before that and used RiF, I‘m sad about both and sad about the death of all the others I never used too. Reddit has lost me as a user forever and hope they enjoy their corporate curated ad experience over there. Goodbye to all the talented devs, may their next projects be even more successful.

Kill_joy, (edited )
Kill_joy avatar

Word. As an Android user, Apollo wasn't on my radar. Christian certainly made a name for himself throughout all of this - he was a phenomenal David against Reddit's Goliath, but I RiF was the backbone of my Reddit experience and will be dearly missed. Excited to see what apps for kbin rise from the ashes of Reddit.

ErraticDragon,
ErraticDragon avatar

rif's UI was near perfect for me. I called it an app version of old.reddit, which was exactly what I wanted.

(Before old.reddit I just considered it a perfect app version of Reddit.)

TheAmishMan,
@TheAmishMan@lemmy.world avatar

Been a Reddit is Fun good user for over a decade. Is by far been my most used app. Earlier editions had the little alien in the corner, and I have three phones with that logo burned into the screen. I really have been enjoying the growth of Lemmy/Fediverse, and it reminds me honestly of early Reddit. But still it's bittersweet losing RiF and how drastically the community of Reddit has changed over the last few months

quortez,
quortez avatar

RiF made Reddit Fun. So long, friend.

ArugulaZ,
ArugulaZ avatar

Sync was my poison. I used it enough that I don't feel any particular need to ask for a refund... I got way more than my money's worth out of it. In fact, I'll pay the author again if a new Sync arrives with Kbin support.

MrGG,

Sync is an app that not only would I argue was the best Reddit third-party app, but one of the best Android apps in general. And it was made by one guy!

Sorry, Sync was an app. 😭

Likewise, I will throw money at the developer when / if he releases something kbin-compatible.

OtakuAltair,

Bad news for your wallet 😔

OtakuAltair,

I’ll pay the author again if a new Sync arrives with Kbin support.

Do I have some good news for you

Sync for Lemmy in 3~ weeks, direct kbin support later on

keegomatic,
keegomatic avatar

Ohhhhh damn!

keegomatic,
keegomatic avatar

Same. Sync was amazing when I was on Android. Used BaconReader and RiF, and been on Apollo since switching to iOS, but Sync was/is the best. It’ll be missed.

Karlos_Cantana,
Karlos_Cantana avatar

Hopefully I will see RIF on the other side.

eatmoregreenfood,
eatmoregreenfood avatar

RiF kbin native fediverse app or an analog with a few added fedi features would be pretty tight

b00m,
b00m avatar

That kinda hits different. I'm so over reddit but seeing RiF go is really making me sour

Paleheart,

Same

I’m ready for reddit to burn to the ground at this point

mabd,
mabd avatar

RIP RIF. I'm another one who used it 99% of the time. I'm glad I found kbin and I'm mostly over reddit, but I'm not over RIF. Thank you for all those years. Fuck you u/spez for destroying the site I've been a part of for almost 10 years... in a single week.

NetHandle,

Ok, so is RIF going to make an app for the fediverse so I can keep using it?

reflex,
reflex avatar

The RIF dev is working on an app for Tildes, last I read. Didn't see anything else mentioned.

talklittle,

This is correct. I'm also excitedly watching Sync for Lemmy as Lemmy and Kbin are pretty neat so far and will only get better. I have been finding myself using all of the above.

Although @ljdawson and I have been vicious blood rivals in the past in the Reddit third-party Android apps sphere, we've been interacting more lately and see eye-to-eye on a lot of things. Great person and great developer.

reflex,
reflex avatar

Glad to see you here!
Like many others RIF was Reddit for me.

Sad to see it go.
But, I'm also using Tildes, so will be watching out for Three Cheers with great interest.

OtakuAltair,

I need my Lemmy is Fun

Jerboa actually gives off similar vibes for me, though it’s still definitely its own thing.

redditisdeadit,

Thank you, RIF was my main source of entrainment for 11 years. I guess you can say all good things come to an end, and RIF was most definitely something I enjoyed.

Reddit has made it clear that profit is above all and users be damned. I say launch your IPO and let us watch the firey demise of what was once a good platform. Reddit will become a glorified hell hole of corporate shills (1000x worse than it is now). This may be a blessing in disguise, and create new opportunities for the development of better apps, like an app for Lemmy!

Anyway, rant is over, and thank so so so much for RIF. I cant wait to see what you develop next!

tuto193,

Very sad to see it go. Was my moat used app for the past ~9 years.

DrNeurohax,
DrNeurohax avatar

o7

Cryst,

RIF is the only app I ever bought on my phone I’ve been using it for 12 years. Sad day indeed.

jelloeater85,
@jelloeater85@lemmy.world avatar

Same, I know Apollo and Bacon Reader were popular, but RIF was so simple and easy on my old junky phone. It worked when other apps would crash. Awesome dev.

Cryst,

Maybe he’ll port it to lemmy?

thirstyhyena,

Reddit was only fun on the phone because of RIF.

CerineArkweaver,

Been using RIF for years, paid for it at least once, never regretted the purchase. Reddit without RIF isn't worth considering.

I really hope that the dev makes a Lemmy client, Lemmy Is Fun when?

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