Came here because RIF shut down and I can't believe how bad the regular reddit app is. Here's hoping that Lemmy is the new reddit!
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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Memorial to "rif is fun for Reddit" Android app, aka "reddit is fun", shut down after June 30, 2023
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I did the exact same thing just today. Here's hoping! I can see there's growing pains, but that just means there's growing to be done.
Me three. First comment on Lemmy!
Me four same deal, first comment here!
for our writing, we discovered no character limit (or one that counts properly....) and have started to move our content here. Even if it's just a side or secondary site, it seems to work great.
Same here. Tried the official reddit app and its bad. Even tweaking with the settings, the lack of many features is noticeable.
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it was the best app for accessing reddit. it is gone so now I am done with reddit
rwf - reddit was fun :(
RIF was fantastic. Thank you.
RIF is why I'm here, I deleted it from my front page, realized I hated going to the reddit website, and looked for something better.
I know he's working on something different, for a different site, but I also hope he's considering a LIF or something like that.
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To Talklittle... Thank you for all the years and hard work you put into RIF. I happened upon your app years ago when I was having a difficult time in my life and found simple solace there. Since then I fully embraced RIF and even got some friends to join the app/community as well. I am fiercely heartbroken over that other apps disgusting treatment of you and the others. I am very sorry, but more than that, I'm incredibly grateful to you. Thank you. Sending peace, love, and strength. 💕
Would pay for Rif for lemmy
LemmyIsFun
RIP RIF
tbf i didn't actually stop using redditisfun. I followed the guide to patching RIF with revanced which changes the user agent of the app to hide from reddit that you're using redditisfun
The instructions are here https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/14niwgu/revanced_patches_for_boost_infinity_rif_is_fun?sort=new
Gonna plug revanced here, too, since i already had revanced because i use it to have adfree YouTube and YouTube music with unlimited skips. Been using it since it was called vanced, when they just shared modified APKs. Then Google shut them down with a cease and desist letter so revanced was born. It's a system for patching apps yourself which gives the developers a bit more legal cover.
Revanced.app
GitHub.com/revanced
Works great I updated and patched my rif and logged back in, everything seems to be working as it did. Thanks for the link.
A decade of a truly-superior user experience.
I can't even bring myself to delete it. I feel like it needs to stay memorialized in my app list.
Thanks for such a great product, devs. It'll be sorely missed.
I was going to leave Apollo on my phone but it kept showing up on my Home Screen in my smart widget and I kept tapping it to open it so it had to go :(
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Came here because of the goodbye note from rif. Reddit is rif for me. The original app is just too bulky and annoying.
It's still not the same experience so I've been trying out apps for lemmy. Connect is the closest one I think.
Throwing in my appreciation for the best damn Reddit app there ever was.
RIF is Fun was amazing. So well designed and everything just worked.
RIF should be a case study in UX/UI design: it's user satisfaction (and really addiction) were a direct result to the ease of use of the interface and the speed with which you could consume content.
I fucking miss RIF already, and it's not been 24 hours yet. When's the last time you felt this way about an app?
Thanks for the app, @talklittle. I purchased RIF back in 2012 and it has been the only way I've used reddit on mobile ever since. Sad to see it go.
I purchased it last week, after years of use :)
RestInPeace in Peace
LIF when? 🥹
LEMMY IS FUN!!!
Doesn't seem like it will happen soon 😕
I just woke up, opened the app out of habit, saw a 429 error, and uninstalled. There's an empty spot on my home screen now that I'll fill with LiftOff after a mourning period
I will miss RIF, and I cannot browse reddit without it. I am, however, looking foward to further interacting with the fediverse. I am just trying to remain respectful of places that other people created and established. Reddit was fun, but it was a mess (fake posts for karma, rage bait posts, harassment over the slightest little thing, people who couldn't and wouldn't intelligently articulate their view, etc). I'm hoping to not bring that here.
Came here from RIF. RIP
RIP RIF :-/
I'll miss Reddit and mostly RIF, but I'm not staying on that sinking ship. I hope Lemmy and Mastodon will get more and more traffic so it just replaces these toxic platforms at one point.
RIP RIF, you will be missed.
My first comment on this site as well, thank you RiF, you were the best app.
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11 years on Reddit and my mobile Reddit experience was 100% via RIF. No RIF. No Reddit on mobile for me (mobile was 95% of my Reddit use).
14 years on Reddit, my main account would have been 13 years old next week and I finally took the plunge and deleted it. Screw those guys. Is it weird that I felt genuinely sad deleting it, though? Like, I'm 37 years old, a parent, married. I feel a bit silly.
Thank you talklittle! You made redditing so enjoyable with RiF. I was introduced to your app about a decade ago and never stopped using it. I spent years writing exhaustive and informative comments, none of it would've been possible without the functionality of RiF.
I'm glad to see you on the Fediverse now :)
RIP golden platinum. We had our good times
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