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RIF developer counters Reddit CEO’s claims that he didn’t want to work with Reddit (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, that one really surprised me.
I knew that RiF had to rename at some point and I just figured that's when Reddit took issue with the trademark infraction of all Reddit apps, which would have kind of been fair enough.

But that the RiF dev actually had a separate deal, and his app was already called "Reddit is Fun" (which users almost certainly wouldn't mistake for the official app),
and that deal still got cancelled – I don't get that one.

[–] PutangInaMo 2 points 2 years ago

I remember the name change but had no idea it was about that. I thought it was pretty obvious it wasn't an official reddit app, but I guess that's fair but definitely shows as a series of moves to wall off the brand and product.