this post was submitted on 30 Jun 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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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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[–] cbapel 4 points 1 year ago

Let's go Lemmy!

[–] odog 4 points 1 year ago

Best social media app I've ever used. Maybe lemmy can fill the reddit sized hole in my day.

[–] hank_the_tank66 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the great years Jay. I'll probably give Tildes a try when you release an app for it.

[–] mooky1977 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for all the fish!

[–] pambuk 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you @talklittle for all your work, as many others said here, RIF was probably the most used app I had and it was my main tool used for Reddit. All the best man.

[–] n0pe 4 points 1 year ago

Seriously great app. Been using it for years and it's done everything I've ever needed it to. Signed up just to say thanks for all your work.

[–] deepblue 4 points 1 year ago

What a sad day. I used RIF for nearly 10 years

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Farewell RIF. I just deleted it. Hopefully it can be recreated as a frontend to one of the new potential replacements.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Although I was a Sync user, I played around with RIF quite a bit. I'm going to miss it, but looking forward to seeing what you do with tildes and lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Loved RIF, was simple, easy to use with nothing stuck in it that wasn't useful. It was the only app I ever used to browse Reddit. thanks for everything, I miss it already

[–] baronsmeg 3 points 1 year ago

RIF has been the only phone app I've ever known for reddit. I was part of the Digg migration, so it feels like I'm doing it again. RIF will be missed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is going to be a whole new world for me. I'm excited to see what happens post reddit TPAs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Goodbye old friend.

[–] Upright 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for such a great app, it made reddit usable for me and really helped me out in terms of accessibility.

[–] Zeps 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for everything! I'm going to miss reddit, but I'm going to miss RiF even more. Best of luck to you all!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Great app, thanks for the work over the years!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm on my throne right now nobody around and I'm typing this just like I would do on Rif . DAM! It was a good run!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have really enjoyed your app, and am sad that era of my life is over. It is really what got me into Reddit so much. Sure I moved over from Digg, but was only a light user till RIF.

I know you will do a great job with the tildes app, and maybe someday I'll get an invite over there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks so much. Have fun over at Tildes. Don't have an invite for there yet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I got one 2 weeks ago and checked it out, it's not for me tbh. The way communities work over there is that you can't just create a communtiy (basically a subreddit), it has to be created by admins when a topic sort of organically grows out of an existing community. So it's a cool idea i guess but it won't have the same vibe of anyone can create anything that reddit had.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you want an invite? I'm a member and can invite you if you want

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@aeternum sure, if you have one to spare

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you, Talklittle. Thank you for absolutely everything.

Reddit was fun while it lasted. There's some things I must still use it for, but I'm hoping to make a full switch otherwise later on. I refuse to use the official app.

Thank you for everything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm going to miss RIF so much. It's been part of my daily life for longer than I care to think about. I wish you'd do a kbin app but I understand it's probably a bit saturated at this point. Everyone is racing to get a good app out. I wish you all the best with Tildes. Thank you so much for all the work you put in over the years

[–] Sharkictus 2 points 1 year ago

I hope we get a decent mobile app here soon

[–] redditisdeadit 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you, RIF was my main source of entrainment for 11 years. I guess you can say all good things come to an end, and RIF was most definitely something I enjoyed.

Reddit has made it clear that profit is above all and users be damned. I say launch your IPO and let us watch the firey demise of what was once a good platform. Reddit will become a glorified hell hole of corporate shills (1000x worse than it is now). This may be a blessing in disguise, and create new opportunities for the development of better apps, like an app for Lemmy!

Anyway, rant is over, and thank so so so much for RIF. I cant wait to see what you develop next!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm convinced that there is more going on behind the scenes. Like Twitter was gutted recently, reddit follows. The ones with power don't like the masses having as much access to information and the ability for like minded individuals to talk with each other. Elon Musk was a scapegoat as is Spez now in an effort to shape global access to information.

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