this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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Reddit Was Fun

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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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It was one of the few apps I had on my first ever smart phone. An HTC Inspire. It never left any device I had from then on out. Forgot my old Google account from it and lost my first paid version license. So I bought it again.

When reddit started pushing ads and people were complaining, I had zero idea any of that was going on because I never used the website, only visited via this app. RiF stayed the same (visually and layout) for practically the entire time. So much so that the burn in on my older phones was RiF's layout.

Will sorely miss it. And I may visit reddit every once in a while to check on my favorite niche subs but it'll be like, maybe twice a week when with RiF it was multiple times daily.

Thank you, talklittle!

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[–] kurosawaa 3 points 1 year ago

I switched from Bacon Reader to RIF around 2014. I used this app every day for 9 years. It's hard to believe it's gone.