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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Goodbye RIF (www.talklittle.com)

submitted 1 year ago by talklittle to c/redditwasfun

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Text of the webpage:

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.

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[–] incachu 8 points 1 year ago

Just to let you know how ingrained RIF was in my routine...

I just woke up, grabbed my phone, unlocked it and tapped "RIF is Fun golden platinum". Your app was the first thing I opened on my phone every morning.

Your app was the perfect way to digest Reddit without the noise. My experience of a neatly curated internet on mobile is gone.

Unlike a lot of people here, I admittedly will probably continue to use old.reddit on desktop (with certain browser extensions of course), to get me to the closest thing to what rif golden platinum was. But my Reddit usage will definitely plummet, as I refuse to use that disorganised, pro-advertiser-anti-user mess which is the official app/new Reddit.

Thank you TalkLittle for navigating us through the noise for all these years and getting us to the news and content that mattered to each one of us.