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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Thanks for everything RIF. You made Reddit usable, and, well..fun. Going to miss it, and without RIF I will simply not be using reddit anymore on mobile. I refuse to use the official app, I'd rather just fill that time with something else. Good luck in your future endeavours, RIF team.

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[–] ThisIsNecessary 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tomorrow I know my muscle memory will click the rif icon on my phone. Deleting rif just feels wrong to me.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Put a Lemmy app where the RIF icon used to be. That's what I did, although I still have RIF on my second home screen. Gonna keep it installed until the end, which won't be long now.

[–] DovahFiST 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It appears to me the end has come. Reddit is fun no longer loads anything and gives me a 429 error. It's sad to lose it after all this time...

That being said I won't be uninstalling it. I just can't. Maybe I won't go out of my way to install it on my next phone, but it's staying on this one for the foreseeable future.

Edit: I haven't been using it because I wanted to give him the ad revenue and all, but golden platinum has not shut down yet. I suppose he's leaving that one up until the very last second as a thank you to those of us who purchased.

[–] ThisIsNecessary 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The end is here. 429 error 😔

[–] PRUSSIA_x86 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

let my first post on Lemmy be a salute to rif, you filled so many hours spent shitting my brains out o7 Edit: shitting, not sitting, well I suppose both

[–] Kandorr 2 points 1 year ago

Same here. My first Lemmy post right here. Thank you RIF. You were great.

[–] ThisIsNecessary 2 points 1 year ago

Welcome to Lemmy!

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

Same; I'm keeping it there as a guidepost to remind me to try new things instead of reaching for Reddit.

[–] danc4498 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel the same way about Apollo. But I quit using it when the blackout happened.

It was a rough transition, but Lemmy has been getting a lot better over time.

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

upward and onward!

[–] TeaHands 4 points 1 year ago
[–] shadmere 2 points 1 year ago

Lying here in bed, using Reddit to fall asleep like usual, and I realize it's the last day I'll do that.

It's sad.

Dunno if lemmy or tildes is better... Will be trying to get used to both I guess.

[–] The_Mike_Drop 2 points 1 year ago

Oh Reddit, I can feel The soil falling over my head And as I climb into an empty bed Oh well, enough said

I know it's over

[–] Queuewho 1 points 1 year ago

I was around for the first year of rif. If talklittle is going lemmy so will I.

[–] Slwh47696 1 points 1 year ago

Started using it in 2013, end of an era