Reddit Was Fun

Your app was the only way I could effectively use reddit on mobile. Not because of any physical difficulty, but because I became so accustomed to it, the features and powerful simplicity. The engineering addage: "the product isn't complete when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" rang so true with your excellent app.

Cheers, and I can't wait to see what you can do with Lemmy and Tildes. A Reddit (was) Fun user since 2009

Without RIF, there's no fun in Reddit. I don't think I've ever used another app in my 11 (wow, sounds like more than I thought..) years on there. Wishing you all the best and thanks for the meme, laughs, insights and info.

RIF is the only way I've used Reddit. Super sad to see that this is how it ends.

Reddit Is Fun was how I started using Reddit before there was an official Reddit app. For nearly a decade I have used RIF almost every day of my life, and I will miss it dearly. Thank you for all the good memories. This thank you message will be my first comment on lemmy, and I truly hope this community will thrive.

RiF was the only way I ever interacted with Reddit on my phone, it's been such a wonderful waste of my time over the years. Thanks very much for that.

Thank you so much. RIF was Reddit for me. Thank you for all of your hard work and for being a part of our lives in this space. When I'll look back on my 12 years on Reddit, it will always be through a RIF filter. Best of luck for anything you may pursue going forward.

RIF was the true no-nonsense Reddit app for sure. Thank you for many many years of service. I hope the Tildes site opens up at some point, and will likely be using your app again should that come to pass. Make some noise if you ever make a kbin or lemmy app, I know for sure you will have plenty of users from day 0.

It's been an honor to be of service.

I feel like we knew this day would come, but didn't expect it to come quite so soon, nor so abruptly.

It's the end of an era. I loved every minute with RIF. Strange feeling, that it's over, and that it ended like this.

Lemmy and Tildes seem like good places to land. I'm excited to see where they go. Here's to what's next!

Thats really sad. I started using the app about 13 years ago, in a time where I had very little frends and thought a girlfriend was never an option. Now 13 years later im going to marry in july and have all my friends around me. So thanks Reddit is fun for filling a hole I had all these years ago.

I can't remember why I switched to RIF exactly, but it was my go-to Reddit mobile experience for many years. I never bothered to look at anything else as it perfectly fit what I was looking for in a Reddit app.

Thanks for putting out such a great app, and best of luck in the future!

Thank you RIF developers. I must have used this app for at least 10 years. End of an era :(

Also can't even get reddit on my phone, no way I'm installing the official app. old.reddit the only thing left worth using.

I REALLY wish another app would use the same drop-down menu RiF had. I loved that I could just type "fli" and it would sort thru all my subs and show "flightsim" and "microsoftflightsim"

That was the main reason I stuck with it the entire time.

Reddit was Fun. Such a smooth and well designed app. Godspeed!

I've been bouncing between Lemmy and Squabbles, leaning more into Squabbles, but saw the post directing us here.

Just want to say thank you for making a reliable, no bullshit app that I kept through numerous phones.

Hope you find a lot of success with Tildes.

Thank you.

When I was first introduced to reddit in around 2008 or 2009, I found rif and thought it was the official app. I have used it ever since and it's the only way I knew reddit. Even using the reddit website felt weird. Now I can't imagine using reddit without it, so I have moved here to Lemmy and I'm trying out the app options. All are better than the official reddit app so far! I'll miss you rif 🫡

App will be missed, starting to migrate to new lands. Reddit may be dead but hopefully we all find a new home. Thanks for the memories Reddit is Fun and all the support from the crew to make an awesome app.

I'm currently using connect for Lemmy, but rif had so many quality of life features I didn't realize were so nice until now. soooo we ever gonna get Lemmy is Fun?

I've had the RIF app for over 10 years. I never taught an app stopping it's service would affect me but this honestly hurts. Thank you for everyone that developed and maintained the app, you have a special place in my heart.

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.

Thanks for the Fun. (And a large extended middle finger to spez.)

13-year redditor here. RiF has been my most-used and most-loved app that whole time. The elegantly simple and intuitive UI also shaped the way I expect apps to behave. It truly felt perfect to me.

Thank you for all the bacon, friend. Looking forward to supporting your future endeavors.

It seems weird to be sad about an app. My reddit account is 13 years old and I honestly couldn't tell you when I started using RIF or how I even found out about it, but it was the one and only reddit app that I used and it followed me across 5 different Android phones over the years.

From deep down, I just want to say thank you talklittle. You could argue that I probably spent way too much time on reddit, but so much of that time was spent on the app that you created. I found endless things through RIF that I shared with friends over the years. It got me through airport layovers, ferry sailings, hospital waiting rooms, breakups, late nights, and so much more. All those little moments in life where you need a quick escape, a laugh, or just need to check in on the world. The app and all your efforts will be deeply missed.

Thank you @[email protected] for years with your app.

I wish you all the best and even more success with future endeavors!

RiF was BY FAR my most used app for 10+ years. RiF was Reddit for me... And now Reddit is dead.

Thanks for bringing me 10 good years. You changed my life in so many ways. I'm sad but hopefully after this turmoil we can find a bright future together.

RIF was a daily for me. I never really cared too much for advertising on reddit. However the office I work has absolutely terrible signal. RIF would absolutely power through efficiently browsing reddit. Now that i have switched to the official app, the majority of my day is just waiting for content to load.

A real shame. The volume of people, and niche content on Reddit is incredible. I have a huge love for railways, model railways, virtual railways and... there are no communities here. Niche within a Niche.

Lets see Where Lemmy takes us!

RIF was my go-to app for Reddit. Thanks for all that you have done! I'm really gonna miss RIF.

I only started using reddit frequently in the past 2-3 years, but found the official app incredibly buggy and prone to freezing. RIF was an awesome app and very well-optimized, always ran like a dream for me and was very easy to use. Thanks for all your hard work.

Got started and introduced to reddit via RIF 9 years ago and never tried anything else. First day here and hope to see lemmyisfun one day and bring LIF to this community. Thanks for all the hard work!

Thanks for all the hard work mate.

I appreciated all the work you did, mate. RIF was fantastic, did the job, and now the only time I'll see reddit is from random google results. Maybe I'll suddenly become more productive now.

RIF was the only reason I used reddit. Strangely enough when reddit asked why I was deleting my account, I said the same thing.

Oh, and an obligatory fuck spez.

RiF had the distinction of being the first app I've ever bought. Thank you so much for your hard work.

So long and thanks for the fish.

Without exaggeration the best Android app I've ever used, and the most used one on my every phone for over a decade. Thank you so much for working on it for so long and giving us all the best damn reddit experience there was. See you around on Tildes!

RIF was such a great app. I used it daily, and I will miss it fondly. I remember checking for Reddit apps 7 years ago; people liked RIF, and it seemed like such a simple one to use. Installed it, tried it, and never looked back. Thanks for everything.

Thanks @[email protected] for an amazing app. If you ever decide to do a lemmy app I'll be there too.

Thanks for the app over all the years! It was a sad moment seeing the 429 error message pop up. RIF was the only way I accessed reddit on mobile. It'll feel weird not tapping that icon anymore. 💚

RiF is/was god tier and if you ever make something for kbin I'll be first in line ♥️ golden platinum was best digital dollar value I ever spent.

It was the best of times. I remember downloading rif for the first time, so many years ago now. I never looked back. I really appreciated how simple and minimal it was. Well done, and keep us updated as to whatever you're working on.

I don't know why, but I'm still in shock it actually happened. RIF is the only way I've ever used Reddit. Spez is burning down one of the best and most informative communities just to up his future net worth a few percentage points. It's disgusting.

We shall never see its like again.

Or maybe we will and all will be well. Probably not though.

Thank you very much, talklittle.

Thank you TalkLittle, RIF was an amazing app and I spent a lot of time with it. One of the first things I did was get premium for it and that was an amazing value for how much I got out of the app. You are a skilled developer and I hope you find success in both your Tildes app as well as other future development projects. RIP RIF and the Reddit that we knew.

Thanks for all these years, RiF was my most used app and it was always a pleasure to use, it will be missed! I'll keep hoping you someday decide to do a remake of it for the Fediverse as well; but if not we'll see you over at Tildes

I go so used to viewing things through the lense/look of my RiF app that it is hard to look at things in a new way. RIP to a great service.

Thank you for everything, RIF was all I used from the first day I used Reddit to the last. I did try other more "modern" apps but always came back and got the GP.

Lemmy feels kinda like RIF as a website, very simplistic but none of the BS. Exactly how I want it.

I've used Reddit Is Fun since around early 2011 when I got my first Android Phone. A few months later it was on sale on the (then called) Android Market and I got Reddit Is Fun Golden Platinum.

It's been my only way to access Reddit since I installed it and I've been on Reddit since around November 2005 when friends showed it to me.

Thanks for making an app that was so easy and pleasant to use. I tried Alien Blue and Relay since others were using them, but they lasted a few days and each time I was going back to RIF.

Thanks u/talklittle !!!

(I don't know how to use Lemmy yet so I don't think this is how you ping users)

RIF was reddit to me, so I guess that's it. Feels kinda weird right now, opening the app and seeing it no longer works. Sad day. I'll make a home here moving forward