RIF should be a case study in UX/UI design: it's user satisfaction (and really addiction) were a direct result to the ease of use of the interface and the speed with which you could consume content.
I fucking miss RIF already, and it's not been 24 hours yet. When's the last time you felt this way about an app?
I was going to leave Apollo on my phone but it kept showing up on my Home Screen in my smart widget and I kept tapping it to open it so it had to go :(
I've put my wefwef link in place of my RiF icon and often expect RiF to open when I mindlessly tap it. Just discovered Connect though, which seems like a decent app too.
I just woke up, opened the app out of habit, saw a 429 error, and uninstalled. There's an empty spot on my home screen now that I'll fill with LiftOff after a mourning period
Granted I used Sync and not RiF (though I initially used RiF from like 2013-2015), but it looks so weird seeing the green Liftoff logo on my home screen, which has been largely unchanged for the past 8 years since I started using Sync.
Both Sync & RiF have patches available from the ReVanced team, they've taken the API keys from the official Reddit app and you can then inject them into Sync/RiF using:
Revanced is a tool some people made to patch apps. It was built to be a successor to vanced which was when basically they distributed modded adfree YouTube APKs. Google sent them a cease and desist, so they built a tool to mod apps yourself.
Jerboa with some minor tweaks in settings (list mode, amoled etc.) looks just like RIF for me. However the comments section is not accurate, but still does a pretty good job. Try it out.
One of the new Android apps, Jerboa & Liftoff are open source available on F-Droid. I'm using Connect for Lemmy available on the playstore and Boost will be available soon as well as a myriad of other apps
is one of the new Lemmy mobile native apps. I tested it (Android) but so far "Connect for reddit" is the best in terms of stability and functionality. I don't care so much about desing myself. Although both have nice desings imo.
Thank you talklittle! You made redditing so enjoyable with RiF. I was introduced to your app about a decade ago and never stopped using it. I spent years writing exhaustive and informative comments, none of it would've been possible without the functionality of RiF.
tbf i didn't actually stop using redditisfun. I followed the guide to patching RIF with revanced which changes the user agent of the app to hide from reddit that you're using redditisfun
Gonna plug revanced here, too, since i already had revanced because i use it to have adfree YouTube and YouTube music with unlimited skips. Been using it since it was called vanced, when they just shared modified APKs. Then Google shut them down with a cease and desist letter so revanced was born. It's a system for patching apps yourself which gives the developers a bit more legal cover.
RIF made Reddit tolerable as the site declined in recent years. I might go back for the live NFL game threads but hopefully Lemmy gets some good sport communities by then. The Connect app has been decent so far but RIF was near perfect in it's simplicity - I hope other app developers take note.
I'll miss Reddit and mostly RIF, but I'm not staying on that sinking ship. I hope Lemmy and Mastodon will get more and more traffic so it just replaces these toxic platforms at one point.
Thank you so much u/talklittle for 10+ years of enjoyment. The thing that stood out about rif was how clean and information dense the list view was. It reminded me of old.reddit where you're looking at a list of posts instead of constantly scrolling like the newer reddit card design. Makes me feel slightly more sane about staring at my phone.
Very excited to see where your future takes you. reddit was always going to fail. Every site or social media network will eventually fail. In its place will fall something else. As ridiculous as your experience has been, perhaps this is for the best.
I really truly appreciate how RIF changed my experience with Reddit and allowed me to curate my front page.
Was really struggling with awful content being pushed at me, but I still wanted to stay connected with the outside world. RIF allowed me filter out harmful stuff and make the whole thing so much better.
I miss my support communities & super niche interest subs. A lot. But I'm at least thankful that I got to experience them while I could.
That's one thing Reddit doesn't somehow grasp: They outsourced their brand experience a long time ago when they were late to building an app of their own. To me and many others, reddit definitely is reddit is fun. There's no putting that genie back in the bottle.
Agree, not the way I expected things to end, but now we're here at lemmy. Tried browsing reddit earlier without rif and stopped after 1 page. It's insanely ad heavy and clunky...
The next best way to browse reddit is through a teddit front end. The main one is teddit.net, but today I learned there is another one at reddit.lol, along with various others. You can't log in or vote, but if you happen to get linked to Reddit, using one of the teddit sites will let you avoid the ads and will provide a streamlined page.
Goodnight sweet prince. Buying golden platinum was the best investment I've made in any software. I wish I could see how many hours I spent on it.
Thank you talklittle for your amazing work on that app. I would consider myself lucky to be able to buy golden platinum in whatever you next develop. I'll watch your career with interest.
For now, I've landed on Community for Lemmy until something else comes along, it can get me a good condensed list view similar to the style I had with RIF
Made my Reddit account on RIF almost 10 years ago. Never used anything else really, aside from the odd visit on the desktop site. Now, here I am. Fuck you, Reddit.
The app used to be called Reddit is Fun. RIF. Reddit got pissy when they published their own shit app and told talklittle to change the name to not include "Reddit". So talklittle changed the name to RIF is Fun. Reddit is fun, is fun. Rest in peace, in peace. It has everything to do with RIF.
I'm going to miss RIF. I actually found reddit through that app in the play store. After 8 years of using it and 7.5 of having an account, it'll take some getting used to not opening RIF. I'll keep it on my phone as a memorial.
Today I opened it a few times out of habit. That loafing circle just kept spinning and spinning. Goodnight sweet sweet RIF. I will take you from my home screen, but never from my phone.
I will miss RIF, and I cannot browse reddit without it. I am, however, looking foward to further interacting with the fediverse. I am just trying to remain respectful of places that other people created and established. Reddit was fun, but it was a mess (fake posts for karma, rage bait posts, harassment over the slightest little thing, people who couldn't and wouldn't intelligently articulate their view, etc). I'm hoping to not bring that here.
I tried Jerboa, Liftoff and Connect Connect is the best one so far. I'm inclined to try Boost and Sync, those are repurposed reddit apps, but Connect is pretty decent.
I think it's just that the whole Lemmy thing is a lot more disjointed. Like, I can't see a nice list of subs, or even necessarily search for them. I have to know they exist and then search for them using their exact address. Quite cumbersome.
I understand the want for the whole federated thing but may have a central point where federation submit to have theirs catalogued? I dunno. Its making this whole thing very cumbersome and I'm not entirely sold on it yet.
Yeah, I tried Jerboa and wasn't a fan. Very buggy. Now on Connect and it feels like the UI of RIF. But it will take me a while to get used to this new world.
I also think connect is closest, although there's functionality I'm really missing right now, like being able to save posts, hide posts, and sort comment sections by new/best/controversial.
Also, idk if it's a bug, but a lot of the posts I look at don't show as read after clicking them.
Agreed. I've been using the RIF format for a decade, would love a Lemmy app that captured the vibe. Connect for Lemmy is good but I miss that RiF feel.
RIF was my first and only reddit app since I got an android phone in 2015. I used to use a Nokia Lumia so I had a different app before the, can't remember the name, something with bacon in the name (E: Baconit!).
But 8 years of using reddit on my phone almost exclusively through reddit is fun. Every phone I've had it's occupied the same space, right next to my Firefox. Maybe I'll replace it with a Lemmy app or maybe I'll just keep it there as a memory. I'm still not sure what I'll do about reddit in general. I've been pretty good at keeping away, but occasionally I'll find myself going back to it out of a deep habit. Maybe RIF not working will break that finally.
EDIT: Was curious when I bought Golden Platinum and apparently late 2017. Funny story is that I never even used it. Was a small amount for an app I'd used for two years by that point to show support. Maybe I could have done more but it's too late for reddit now.
Wasn't that, but I did find it. It was called Baconit. Seemed to have died years back now, but it looked pretty nice back when I used it. Though I do remember it being a bit buggy.
I used RIF for a looong time, tried official reddit app once, never opened it again. Never heard of Apollo until recently. Thank you @[email protected]
I am still baffled that Reddit didn't have options like, ads in API calls for 3rd party apps, or paying Reddit users can use 3rd party apps. It feels like Google blocking me for using Firefox even though I am a Google One subscriber, on a Pixel, browsing over Google Fiber.
14 years on Reddit, my main account would have been 13 years old next week and I finally took the plunge and deleted it. Screw those guys. Is it weird that I felt genuinely sad deleting it, though? Like, I'm 37 years old, a parent, married. I feel a bit silly.
When I first found out about Reddit, it was in the form of "Rage Comics". That was sometime in 2009-2010 I believe. I loved rage comics, and would be glued to my phone reading all the different silly things people would come up with. About a year later, I learned about RIF and it's small community. I had never left since.
I'll miss you RIF.... Gone but never forgotten </3
It’s the same for me. I discovered what Reddit was because of a rage comics app. I’ve used pretty much all of the apps, such as Baconreader, Alien Blue, but ultimately settled on RIF for Android and Apollo on iOS. I am currently using Memmy, but I really hope that there’s an equivalent for RIF, perhaps a LIF?
Thank you so much for RIF. I didn't realise what the date was and was idly browsing Reddit last night, then it suddenly stopped working. I became a little sad when that happened.
So, is it a problem that rif is still working for me some how? I went into it to see the dead app and canceled out of every message prompt after the good bye. Now when I open the app, it works.
I noticed this last night - it works logged out, but logged out you can't interact.
I have no idea how this stuff works, but I remember they were saying at one point that API calls under a certain number were supposed to be free? But that the bigger apps obviously used far more. Could it just be that one the initial number is hit that it just stops?
Funny thing, without being able to upvote my little monkey brain cares less to check it, and I've spent more time on Lemmy today anyway lol.
Same here, I'm able to load but not log in or interact, which is fine with me because I mostly lurked anyway, and thus way I can continue to lurk without giving them any ad traffic.
Thanks for everything. I can't believe how well made this app was, and I totally took it for granted. Now it's gone. Oh I, oh I, better learn how to face it, it's gone. I'd pay the devil to...sorry. Anyway, as an incurable insomniac, you were my in my hands for many, many, many late hours.
Thank you for RIF. For years I thought it was the official app. I once tried reddits official app when it was released and it was a quick "nope" back to RIF. Thanks for the years of fun.
Thank you so much for your years of work. I first downloaded reddit is fun in 8th grade and have used it since then. I'm a college graduate now so it just goes to show how good of an experience using your app was. Looking forward to your future if you decide to develop for Lemmy
I used RIF for nearly a decade. Thanks for a great little app that got regular updates over the years. Talklittle, you are a great human! I will happily pay for your next app.
So wait I logged out of rif because when I was logged in it was getting 429 and empty content... Now that I'm logged out it appears to work fine at the moment. What's happening?
Same, not sure what's going on. Just checked and nsfw subs are still on too which I thought was part of what was been taken away from 3rd party apps.
Also, first comment on lemmy, used mastodon a while back when Twitter first caught fire but I'm liking it so far. Currently using connect for lemmy which seems good. Missing rif a lot today though. Just opening on impulse.
Are you logged in though? When I try to log in Reddit answers with a "you sent an invalid request - invalid client id". API changes are definitely taking effect.
I paid for RiF about 10 years ago, and it's one of the best purchases I've ever made. Big shout out to the development team for their support all these years!
Also here after reddit is fun shut down. Pour one out for ya boy. I even listened to whatever the kpop song (jay park yesterday) posted on RiF's goodbye letter. Not sure how that song related to the app shutting down but I went with it
Same here, I tried a heap of Reddit apps, and RIF nailed the GUI down, and made reading a pleasure, you could browse for hrs, then go for more hrs, it was just perfect.
To Talklittle... Thank you for all the years and hard work you put into RIF. I happened upon your app years ago when I was having a difficult time in my life and found simple solace there. Since then I fully embraced RIF and even got some friends to join the app/community as well. I am fiercely heartbroken over that other apps disgusting treatment of you and the others. I am very sorry, but more than that, I'm incredibly grateful to you. Thank you. Sending peace, love, and strength. 💕
That said, it drives me nuts when people don't consider syllable counts in parody songs.
"This'll be the day that I die" can't be sung to the same tune as "soon I'll be a rich guy."
Probably should have gone with "soon I'll be a very rich guy." But the rest of the parody is written the same way unfortunately, so it'd all need to be fixed.
"The Day Reddit Died"
(Sung to the tune of American Pie):
Once upon a cyber-age, I still can vibe
With how Reddit used to make me feel alive.
Dropping my content, catching people's gaze,
Maybe even making their day less of a maze.
Then came u/spez, making me shudder,
With each update, worse than the other.
Dreadful news hitting like a bolt,
API calls suddenly worth a gold vault.
Third-party apps couldn't bear this mess,
Every step closer to distress.
Did I tear up, I can't recall,
When I read about Apollo and RIF's fall?
But something hit me, like a landslide,
The day that Reddit died.
Chorus:
"Hey there, u/spez guy,
Thought you'd be Reddit's MVP,
But we know that's a sky-high lie.
Just a plain Joe with stars in his eyes,
Saying 'Soon, I'll be the big prize guy!'"
Did you overhaul the subreddit's code,
So only John Oliver's pics rode?
And NSFW content became the play,
With OnlyFans girls leading the way?
Remember the mod strike that caused a quake,
Threats of being expelled, no give, all take.
Admins kicked out the mod crew,
In their place, a monkey zoo.
That was the day Reddit died.
Chorus:
"Hey there, u/spez guy,
Thought you'd be Reddit's MVP,
But we know that's a sky-high lie.
Just a plain Joe with stars in his eyes,
Saying 'Soon, I'll be the big prize guy!'"
Then June 30th dropped like a bad meme,
Despite the Reddit community's scream.
Third-party apps posted their farewell,
Users all around began to rebel.
The day that Reddit died.
And as they bailed from Reddit's sinking ship,
They were singing:
"Hey there, u/spez, you sly guy,
Thought you'd be Reddit's MVP,
But we know that's a sky-high lie.
Just a plain Joe with stars in his eyes,
Dreaming 'One day, I'll be the big prize guy.'"
@talklittle@lemmyworld, your app was the only way I could ever enjoy Reddit. It's partially thanks to you that I now saw how important 3rd party apps were, and because of that I'm here now. RIF was the best, thanks for all your hard work!
Well, it's the 6th and it's still working. Maybe they have problem separating things, as they most likely do not know how to block everything but let mod stuff work.
Thank you so much for your years of work. I first downloaded reddit is fun in 8th grade and have used it since then. I'm a college graduate now so it just goes to show how good of an experience using your app was. Looking forward to your future if you decide to develop for Lemmy
I used the official app for the first time today. Boy does it suck! Mobile and RIF is done. How the hell am I going to take a shit again? 10 years of training... I don't know how my bowels will react!
I've used RIF for over six years. It's crazy to think about all the stuff the world has been through during that time. RIF was a huge source of community for me - especially during the pandemic. It stinks to say goodbye but all things end and I'm sure something better (maybe Lemmy?) will eventually fill the void. Really sad to see the position that Reddit has taken on all this.
What an awesome app that stole countless hours from me. Thanks. I've decided to give Tildes a shot after seeing that talklittle has plans for an app, and generally I'm embracing the newfound diversity of all these new federated discussion venues. Onward and upward.
I think maybe RIF gets the main data from reddit via http, which is free. All the other functions such as logging in, commenting, hiding threads, etc use the API which doesn't work.
It's like RIF is accessing reddit in read only guest mode via free http.
Thank you thank you thank you for the many many years of stellar service. I would be ecstatic if you just so happened to make LiF... you'd have an instant buy, you know!
RIF was one of the first apps I downloaded when I got a smart phone. I was looking for things to do with it and saw it trending in the App Store so I decided to check out this Reddit thing. For over a decade (until I moved to an iPhone) RIF was Reddit to me. I’ve gone to Reddit through official channels only a hand full of times and it’s a terrible experience.
Very bummed to see RIF and Apollo dead. To me, that means Reddit is dead. Whatever is leftover is a shell of what it once was.
Thank you @talklittle for having that app for so long
I didn't believe it would really go down until I saw it myself
Tried using Firefox for Android w/ Adblock for about 1 night and the user experience was as bad as using Lemmy, a site buckling under expanding user growth and in its infancy in development. So I said "Well, I might as well just use Lemmy".
I used Infinity for reddit on Android....I could have switched back to the original app and been ok in a lot of ways, but I know I would feel like a scab
Came here because RIF shut down and I can't believe how bad the regular reddit app is. Here's hoping that Lemmy is the new reddit!
LEMMY IS FUN ... PLEASE. I will pay.
Thought the same thing. How about 3rd party reddit apps use lemmy's API instead?
Hell, even a reddit api wrapper for the lemmy api.
I'm curious if it's really that easy. It needs more front end functionality to account for the different instances and the way lemmy works.
they can't just replace the API, it is a different website, different features etc.
I will pay, again.
Please add kbin too!
Lol same, I'd gladly pay for this. RIF was the best app that I'd used, and I will dearly miss it.
Please please please LIF.
RIP RIF, now... LIF.
For now, Voyager is quite good.
Throwing in my appreciation for the best damn Reddit app there ever was.
RIF is Fun was amazing. So well designed and everything just worked.
RIF should be a case study in UX/UI design: it's user satisfaction (and really addiction) were a direct result to the ease of use of the interface and the speed with which you could consume content.
I fucking miss RIF already, and it's not been 24 hours yet. When's the last time you felt this way about an app?
Thanks for the app, @talklittle. I purchased RIF back in 2012 and it has been the only way I've used reddit on mobile ever since. Sad to see it go.
RIF is why I'm here, I deleted it from my front page, realized I hated going to the reddit website, and looked for something better.
I know he's working on something different, for a different site, but I also hope he's considering a LIF or something like that.
Try Connect for Lemmy, it's the app closest to RIF I've found so far.
What site post Reddit is he tying into?
Tildes
Rest in peace in peace
Rest in fun RIF
Now do "RIF is fun for reddit" and you'll get the joke.
A decade of a truly-superior user experience.
I can't even bring myself to delete it. I feel like it needs to stay memorialized in my app list.
Thanks for such a great product, devs. It'll be sorely missed.
I was going to leave Apollo on my phone but it kept showing up on my Home Screen in my smart widget and I kept tapping it to open it so it had to go :(
I'm having the same issue, haha -- that muscle memory is gonna take some time to fade.
Maybe I'll just disable it but know it's always there 😅
I've put my wefwef link in place of my RiF icon and often expect RiF to open when I mindlessly tap it. Just discovered Connect though, which seems like a decent app too.
I've removed it but the muscle memory is still trying to click where it once was.
I just woke up, opened the app out of habit, saw a 429 error, and uninstalled. There's an empty spot on my home screen now that I'll fill with LiftOff after a mourning period
Granted I used Sync and not RiF (though I initially used RiF from like 2013-2015), but it looks so weird seeing the green Liftoff logo on my home screen, which has been largely unchanged for the past 8 years since I started using Sync.
Both Sync & RiF have patches available from the ReVanced team, they've taken the API keys from the official Reddit app and you can then inject them into Sync/RiF using:
https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager
Can you expand on this please, what is it, and what does it do?
Revanced is a tool some people made to patch apps. It was built to be a successor to vanced which was when basically they distributed modded adfree YouTube APKs. Google sent them a cease and desist, so they built a tool to mod apps yourself.
You likely know but maybe others will see this. Sync for Lemmy is now available.
Jerboa with some minor tweaks in settings (list mode, amoled etc.) looks just like RIF for me. However the comments section is not accurate, but still does a pretty good job. Try it out.
LiftOff? Eli5
It's a Lemmy app that I like. The standard web app version of Lemmy feels cluncky to me, and I like the presentation of LiftOff
Ah, thanks for the info, using Connect to Lemmy myself, will have to try LiftOff see which I like more.
One of the new Android apps, Jerboa & Liftoff are open source available on F-Droid. I'm using Connect for Lemmy available on the playstore and Boost will be available soon as well as a myriad of other apps
is one of the new Lemmy mobile native apps. I tested it (Android) but so far "Connect for reddit" is the best in terms of stability and functionality. I don't care so much about desing myself. Although both have nice desings imo.
You mean Connect for Lemmy?
Same same. It was awful to realize it had really happened.
Thank you talklittle! You made redditing so enjoyable with RiF. I was introduced to your app about a decade ago and never stopped using it. I spent years writing exhaustive and informative comments, none of it would've been possible without the functionality of RiF.
I'm glad to see you on the Fediverse now :)
POPPINKREAM IS HERE thank ye Gods! Love your work thank you for your dedication.
RIP RIF
tbf i didn't actually stop using redditisfun. I followed the guide to patching RIF with revanced which changes the user agent of the app to hide from reddit that you're using redditisfun
The instructions are here https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/14niwgu/revanced_patches_for_boost_infinity_rif_is_fun?sort=new
Gonna plug revanced here, too, since i already had revanced because i use it to have adfree YouTube and YouTube music with unlimited skips. Been using it since it was called vanced, when they just shared modified APKs. Then Google shut them down with a cease and desist letter so revanced was born. It's a system for patching apps yourself which gives the developers a bit more legal cover.
Revanced.app
GitHub.com/revanced
RIF made Reddit tolerable as the site declined in recent years. I might go back for the live NFL game threads but hopefully Lemmy gets some good sport communities by then. The Connect app has been decent so far but RIF was near perfect in it's simplicity - I hope other app developers take note.
I feel ya, hopefully a good NFL and hockey community starts up over the summer.
RIF was what Reddit looked like to me. Used it for over a decade. I paid for it once and it was ad free always after that. Good bye old friend
The best $2.99 I spent on an app. My only regret is the author didn't fleece me for more. I would have gladly paid the $2.99 yearly.
Me too
I'll miss Reddit and mostly RIF, but I'm not staying on that sinking ship. I hope Lemmy and Mastodon will get more and more traffic so it just replaces these toxic platforms at one point.
RIP RIF, you will be missed.
"Error loading Reddit data. Please try again later." 🥺
I got that at 1900. I was driving. I thought I had until 2359. Goodby dear friend.
It seems like it stopped at 23:59 UTC
I'm in EDT time and it quit for me at 1900, which is 23:00 UTC
Would pay for Rif for lemmy
LIF when? 🥹
Thank you so much u/talklittle for 10+ years of enjoyment. The thing that stood out about rif was how clean and information dense the list view was. It reminded me of old.reddit where you're looking at a list of posts instead of constantly scrolling like the newer reddit card design. Makes me feel slightly more sane about staring at my phone.
Very excited to see where your future takes you. reddit was always going to fail. Every site or social media network will eventually fail. In its place will fall something else. As ridiculous as your experience has been, perhaps this is for the best.
I really truly appreciate how RIF changed my experience with Reddit and allowed me to curate my front page.
Was really struggling with awful content being pushed at me, but I still wanted to stay connected with the outside world. RIF allowed me filter out harmful stuff and make the whole thing so much better.
I miss my support communities & super niche interest subs. A lot. But I'm at least thankful that I got to experience them while I could.
Thank you, RIF!
Reddit will never be Reddit without RIF.
RIP.
That's one thing Reddit doesn't somehow grasp: They outsourced their brand experience a long time ago when they were late to building an app of their own. To me and many others, reddit definitely is reddit is fun. There's no putting that genie back in the bottle.
Just realized I've been using RIF from start to finish... 14 years. Everything else was shit. And that's not just kind of my opinion.
Holy crap me too. Tried using reddit in the android browser of the time and it was a terrible experience. Found RIF in 2009 and never looked back.
But it's been 14 years of silence It's been 14 years of pain It's been 14 years that are gone forever and I'll never have again
RIF was pretty much reddit for me, such a shame that it had to end in this way.
Agree, not the way I expected things to end, but now we're here at lemmy. Tried browsing reddit earlier without rif and stopped after 1 page. It's insanely ad heavy and clunky...
The next best way to browse reddit is through a teddit front end. The main one is teddit.net, but today I learned there is another one at reddit.lol, along with various others. You can't log in or vote, but if you happen to get linked to Reddit, using one of the teddit sites will let you avoid the ads and will provide a streamlined page.
Over a decade on Reddit, using RIF on 4 different smart phones, and now it's all over. O7 I salute you RIF, ya done good kid.
Came here from RIF. RIP
Missed the opportunity to put. "RIF" in peace hahaaha
Rest in Feace
Rest in free
Goodnight sweet prince. Buying golden platinum was the best investment I've made in any software. I wish I could see how many hours I spent on it.
Thank you talklittle for your amazing work on that app. I would consider myself lucky to be able to buy golden platinum in whatever you next develop. I'll watch your career with interest.
For now, I've landed on Community for Lemmy until something else comes along, it can get me a good condensed list view similar to the style I had with RIF
🤞
Dev is working on an app for Tildes at the moment.
Me too
Made my Reddit account on RIF almost 10 years ago. Never used anything else really, aside from the odd visit on the desktop site. Now, here I am. Fuck you, Reddit.
Missed opportunity for
Rif in peace
RIP in peace makes no sense at all…
Sure it does, it's a reference to the whole Reddit is Fun Is Fun thing.
But RIP stands for “Rest In Peace”. So “RIP in peace” means, literally, “rest in peace in peace”.
The nonsensical bit has nothing to do with RIF.
The app used to be called Reddit is Fun. RIF. Reddit got pissy when they published their own shit app and told talklittle to change the name to not include "Reddit". So talklittle changed the name to RIF is Fun. Reddit is fun, is fun. Rest in peace, in peace. It has everything to do with RIF.
Ok, that’s a good answer, which makes perfect sense to me now. Thanks!
Anytime!
Reddit is fun is fun
RIF, with an f...
It's a meme
I'm going to miss RIF. I actually found reddit through that app in the play store. After 8 years of using it and 7.5 of having an account, it'll take some getting used to not opening RIF. I'll keep it on my phone as a memorial.
RIP RIF
I can't bring myself to delete it yet either 🪦
Today I opened it a few times out of habit. That loafing circle just kept spinning and spinning. Goodnight sweet sweet RIF. I will take you from my home screen, but never from my phone.
I sort of did too. I deleted RiF last night and replaced it with another app on my Android. I probably opened that app 20 times just out of habit
I had to put my lemmy app where RiF used to be. Muscle memory has me click it without even thinking. Gonna take some getting used to.
I will miss RIF, and I cannot browse reddit without it. I am, however, looking foward to further interacting with the fediverse. I am just trying to remain respectful of places that other people created and established. Reddit was fun, but it was a mess (fake posts for karma, rage bait posts, harassment over the slightest little thing, people who couldn't and wouldn't intelligently articulate their view, etc). I'm hoping to not bring that here.
Sad day, can't wait for LIF 🤟
IKR that would be great!
Is there a chance that the dev can rewrite rif for lemmy? I love rif, my favorite app. I'm not using some Lemmy app and Im not loving it
I tried Jerboa, Liftoff and Connect Connect is the best one so far. I'm inclined to try Boost and Sync, those are repurposed reddit apps, but Connect is pretty decent.
I think it's just that the whole Lemmy thing is a lot more disjointed. Like, I can't see a nice list of subs, or even necessarily search for them. I have to know they exist and then search for them using their exact address. Quite cumbersome.
I understand the want for the whole federated thing but may have a central point where federation submit to have theirs catalogued? I dunno. Its making this whole thing very cumbersome and I'm not entirely sold on it yet.
if you are using connect, you get Auto completion when you start typing in the community(?) search field. also there's this https://browse.feddit.de/
I clicked than link and it opened a web browser with a list of instances but what I could do from that list is incredibly unclear
Yeah, I tried Jerboa and wasn't a fan. Very buggy. Now on Connect and it feels like the UI of RIF. But it will take me a while to get used to this new world.
I also think connect is closest, although there's functionality I'm really missing right now, like being able to save posts, hide posts, and sort comment sections by new/best/controversial.
Also, idk if it's a bug, but a lot of the posts I look at don't show as read after clicking them.
Rif was reddit for me. It's saved me through so many boring commutes to the office and back. Rif, you shall be missed.
Me too. Only app I ever used. I actually thought it was the native Reddit app for the first few years.
Good night, sweet prince. You weren't a good app... you were the best.
Rip in peace rif is fun :(
It would be awesome if RIF could be repurposed to be a front end for lemmy.
Agreed. I've been using the RIF format for a decade, would love a Lemmy app that captured the vibe. Connect for Lemmy is good but I miss that RiF feel.
Hey @[email protected], just wanted to say thanks for one more smile. May RIF is Fun RIP in Peace.
RIP golden platinum. We had our good times
Been using RIF since around 2011. I hope that Lemmy or Tildes takes off.
RIF in Peace. You'll be missed but never forgotten, unlike Reddit.
@talklittle thank you very much for your service and for developing the best app to browse Reddit with.
RIF was my first and only reddit app since I got an android phone in 2015. I used to use a Nokia Lumia so I had a different app before the, can't remember the name, something with bacon in the name (E: Baconit!).
But 8 years of using reddit on my phone almost exclusively through reddit is fun. Every phone I've had it's occupied the same space, right next to my Firefox. Maybe I'll replace it with a Lemmy app or maybe I'll just keep it there as a memory. I'm still not sure what I'll do about reddit in general. I've been pretty good at keeping away, but occasionally I'll find myself going back to it out of a deep habit. Maybe RIF not working will break that finally.
EDIT: Was curious when I bought Golden Platinum and apparently late 2017. Funny story is that I never even used it. Was a small amount for an app I'd used for two years by that point to show support. Maybe I could have done more but it's too late for reddit now.
Bacon Reader?
Wasn't that, but I did find it. It was called Baconit. Seemed to have died years back now, but it looked pretty nice back when I used it. Though I do remember it being a bit buggy.
RIP RIF. The only app that I could bear to use on android. Thanks for so many awesome years.
Here's to seeing if Lemmy (or maybe tildes.net if we get invites) works out. Seems like a cool community so far
it was a long run, sad to see it go :( thanks for everything
it really makes me sad. I can't imagine how you feel. 14 years is a long fucking time.
I'll have that icon in my drawer as long as I have this phone.
Thanks for all the fish
So sad to see RIF go, I was using it since I first found reddit about a decade ago. Fuck spez and his greediness
I used RIF for a looong time, tried official reddit app once, never opened it again. Never heard of Apollo until recently. Thank you @[email protected]
RIF was the only Reddit I knew....
So long!! Hello! Lemmy! Cute name 😉
10 years on reddit, most of that through RIF.
It feels like I've been kicked out of my home by monsters.
I am still baffled that Reddit didn't have options like, ads in API calls for 3rd party apps, or paying Reddit users can use 3rd party apps. It feels like Google blocking me for using Firefox even though I am a Google One subscriber, on a Pixel, browsing over Google Fiber.
RIF was my first Reddit app. I did move over to Boost a couple of years ago but RIF will always be my o.g. Android experience.
Thanks for all your work, talklittle - you improved a lot of lives, including mine, with this app.
The Internet is a river, not a pond. It was nice while it lasted, but we continue on.
14 years on Reddit, my main account would have been 13 years old next week and I finally took the plunge and deleted it. Screw those guys. Is it weird that I felt genuinely sad deleting it, though? Like, I'm 37 years old, a parent, married. I feel a bit silly.
Started using Reddit with RIF, used this for 7 years and stopped using Reddit now that RIF is gone.
Thanks for giving me a home for the past 10 years.
Thanks Talklittle!
RIF Golden Platinum was my most used app since 2011
My first comment on this site as well, thank you RiF, you were the best app.
RIF.... how long has it been, old friend?
When I first found out about Reddit, it was in the form of "Rage Comics". That was sometime in 2009-2010 I believe. I loved rage comics, and would be glued to my phone reading all the different silly things people would come up with. About a year later, I learned about RIF and it's small community. I had never left since.
I'll miss you RIF.... Gone but never forgotten </3
It’s the same for me. I discovered what Reddit was because of a rage comics app. I’ve used pretty much all of the apps, such as Baconreader, Alien Blue, but ultimately settled on RIF for Android and Apollo on iOS. I am currently using Memmy, but I really hope that there’s an equivalent for RIF, perhaps a LIF?
it was the best app for accessing reddit. it is gone so now I am done with reddit
Also my first comment on Lemmy. RIP RIF
Hello Lemmy is fun??
Thank you so much for RIF. I didn't realise what the date was and was idly browsing Reddit last night, then it suddenly stopped working. I became a little sad when that happened.
Fuck Reddit, fuck Spez.
Reddit is fun was my jam. I won't reddit anymore without it.
Picked up premium last week in support. Thanks for all you did!
If everyone is here, the content is here. So long RIF and thanks for all the fish, but if this takes off it will be so much better than ever before.
Another Reddit refugee reporting in. RIF was how I reddited... It will be greatly missed.
11 years on Reddit and my mobile Reddit experience was 100% via RIF. No RIF. No Reddit on mobile for me (mobile was 95% of my Reddit use).
My first comment on lemmy! RIP RIF
I don't even know how long I used rif, but it was for the majority of my reddit time, and that is over 12 years.
Sad to see it go, but I'm also hopeful for our federated future. Reddit hadn't been great for quite a while now.
So, is it a problem that rif is still working for me some how? I went into it to see the dead app and canceled out of every message prompt after the good bye. Now when I open the app, it works.
Same here, able to load content, comments, everything except log in
I noticed this last night - it works logged out, but logged out you can't interact.
I have no idea how this stuff works, but I remember they were saying at one point that API calls under a certain number were supposed to be free? But that the bigger apps obviously used far more. Could it just be that one the initial number is hit that it just stops?
Funny thing, without being able to upvote my little monkey brain cares less to check it, and I've spent more time on Lemmy today anyway lol.
Same here, I'm able to load but not log in or interact, which is fine with me because I mostly lurked anyway, and thus way I can continue to lurk without giving them any ad traffic.
yeah wtf I just tried it and it works without being logged in. I haven't actually tried logging in though.
also, I had to restore it from a backup. I noticed it's not on the play store anymore
It probably won't last for too long. Gonna get as much NSFW as I can.
Rest in Feace, RiF
Like most of y'all came over when 429s hit up our beloved RIF. Hoping I can learn how to use this number n a similar way.
As an aside was the API rate limiting done earlier than anticipated? Thought it was a 7/1 thing and not a 6/30 @ 10p EST thing.
Thank you @[email protected] , I've enjoyed RIF a lot since 2014.
Used it daily from my bed, the office, and the shitter.
RIPRIF
Thanks for everything. I can't believe how well made this app was, and I totally took it for granted. Now it's gone. Oh I, oh I, better learn how to face it, it's gone. I'd pay the devil to...sorry. Anyway, as an incurable insomniac, you were my in my hands for many, many, many late hours.
I think I'm keeping the app on my phone for old time's sake
RIP RIF
Thank you for RIF. For years I thought it was the official app. I once tried reddits official app when it was released and it was a quick "nope" back to RIF. Thanks for the years of fun.
Opening RIF today is so depressing 😭😭
Try it again
Goodbye RIF. You'll be missed!
LIF??
TIF from what I heard. Tildes, that is
Sad, my most used app over the years.
how is it still working on my phone?
Reddit incompetence. The app is still working fully for me, even NSFW you just can't log in or post.
Even infinity for Reddit is working fine rn.
got it. I guess it'll stay on my phone till it's fully dysfunctional.
ಥ_ಥ
RIP RIF May it rest with the best of them. To me it WAS Reddit. But so far Lemmy has been an easy onboarding! Let's keep the party going!
Boost app for Reddit made me come here, I hope this outgrows Reddit
Thank you so much for your years of work. I first downloaded reddit is fun in 8th grade and have used it since then. I'm a college graduate now so it just goes to show how good of an experience using your app was. Looking forward to your future if you decide to develop for Lemmy
I used RIF for nearly a decade. Thanks for a great little app that got regular updates over the years. Talklittle, you are a great human! I will happily pay for your next app.
T'was an honor and a pleasure shitposting with you.
Glad to begin a new adventure
So wait I logged out of rif because when I was logged in it was getting 429 and empty content... Now that I'm logged out it appears to work fine at the moment. What's happening?
You found a glitch in the matrix. Proceed with caution.
Same, not sure what's going on. Just checked and nsfw subs are still on too which I thought was part of what was been taken away from 3rd party apps. Also, first comment on lemmy, used mastodon a while back when Twitter first caught fire but I'm liking it so far. Currently using connect for lemmy which seems good. Missing rif a lot today though. Just opening on impulse.
Are you logged in though? When I try to log in Reddit answers with a "you sent an invalid request - invalid client id". API changes are definitely taking effect.
Not anymore when I was I got empty content and errors
Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
I paid for RiF about 10 years ago, and it's one of the best purchases I've ever made. Big shout out to the development team for their support all these years!
Also here after reddit is fun shut down. Pour one out for ya boy. I even listened to whatever the kpop song (jay park yesterday) posted on RiF's goodbye letter. Not sure how that song related to the app shutting down but I went with it
I used rif for 12 years. Never found an app that suited me more.
Same here, I tried a heap of Reddit apps, and RIF nailed the GUI down, and made reading a pleasure, you could browse for hrs, then go for more hrs, it was just perfect.
To Talklittle... Thank you for all the years and hard work you put into RIF. I happened upon your app years ago when I was having a difficult time in my life and found simple solace there. Since then I fully embraced RIF and even got some friends to join the app/community as well. I am fiercely heartbroken over that other apps disgusting treatment of you and the others. I am very sorry, but more than that, I'm incredibly grateful to you. Thank you. Sending peace, love, and strength. 💕
After 9 years of RIF this was a weird weekend and boring poops! lol First post here using Jerboa and like the interface so far.
Jerboa has a dark mode I discovered, and density scaling to feel very RIF
RIF was fantastic. Thank you.
There is this:
https://imgur.com/a/GrPwnrX
Or if you are looking at stuff on Reddit still: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14nb5qs/comment/jq87sjd/
I actually appreciate the humor in the lyrics.
That said, it drives me nuts when people don't consider syllable counts in parody songs.
"This'll be the day that I die" can't be sung to the same tune as "soon I'll be a rich guy."
Probably should have gone with "soon I'll be a very rich guy." But the rest of the parody is written the same way unfortunately, so it'd all need to be fixed.
I'm fun at parties.
Should've gone with "soon I'm gonna be a rich guy" like Weird Al did.
should have just asked ChatGPT to do it
"The Day Reddit Died" (Sung to the tune of American Pie):
Once upon a cyber-age, I still can vibe With how Reddit used to make me feel alive. Dropping my content, catching people's gaze, Maybe even making their day less of a maze.
Then came u/spez, making me shudder, With each update, worse than the other. Dreadful news hitting like a bolt, API calls suddenly worth a gold vault.
Third-party apps couldn't bear this mess, Every step closer to distress. Did I tear up, I can't recall, When I read about Apollo and RIF's fall? But something hit me, like a landslide, The day that Reddit died.
Chorus: "Hey there, u/spez guy, Thought you'd be Reddit's MVP, But we know that's a sky-high lie. Just a plain Joe with stars in his eyes, Saying 'Soon, I'll be the big prize guy!'"
Did you overhaul the subreddit's code, So only John Oliver's pics rode? And NSFW content became the play, With OnlyFans girls leading the way?
Remember the mod strike that caused a quake, Threats of being expelled, no give, all take. Admins kicked out the mod crew, In their place, a monkey zoo.
That was the day Reddit died.
Chorus: "Hey there, u/spez guy, Thought you'd be Reddit's MVP, But we know that's a sky-high lie. Just a plain Joe with stars in his eyes, Saying 'Soon, I'll be the big prize guy!'"
Then June 30th dropped like a bad meme, Despite the Reddit community's scream. Third-party apps posted their farewell, Users all around began to rebel.
The day that Reddit died.
And as they bailed from Reddit's sinking ship, They were singing: "Hey there, u/spez, you sly guy, Thought you'd be Reddit's MVP, But we know that's a sky-high lie. Just a plain Joe with stars in his eyes, Dreaming 'One day, I'll be the big prize guy.'"
Poured out some of my beer in respect to RIF. Thanks for the amazing mobile experience!
Thanks for the ten years of procrastinating
Had RIF for the entire time I've used Reddit, about 9 years. So so sad to see it go, signed up for Lemmy, let's hope it picks up steam! RIP to RIF ♥️
This was the only app that I stuck with. I paid in 2015. I tried some others but always came back to RIF. Thanks for the great app.
Will there ever be a Lemmy is Fun? I know about the Tildes thing.
Goodbye, RIF. It was the best.
I still open it accidentally on occasion :(
I just moved the icon for lemmy to where rif used to be, and it's been an almost seamless transition
What's your app of choice for Lemmy?
I will miss it...
@talklittle@lemmyworld, your app was the only way I could ever enjoy Reddit. It's partially thanks to you that I now saw how important 3rd party apps were, and because of that I'm here now. RIF was the best, thanks for all your hard work!
It will be greatly missed, but interested to see how this all plays out with Lemmy and the other alternatives.
Great App, most used app on my phone for most of those years. About the only premium app I ever bought. What ever comes next will be equally good.
I'm going to miss RIF so damn much. One of my favorite apps ever!!
I use Relay For Reddit and it is still working on my phone NSFW and all. I wonder why.
Relay is moving to a subscription model in the near future. Meanwhile it will remain free. The NSFW limitation is scheduled for July 5.
Well, it's the 6th and it's still working. Maybe they have problem separating things, as they most likely do not know how to block everything but let mod stuff work.
Farewell old friend it was fun while it lasted. Hope they have a good future working in some new project.
RIF is Reddit for me. Unless I'm at a computer. Sorry they did us dirty, but thanks for the past ten years.
Thank you so much for your years of work. I first downloaded reddit is fun in 8th grade and have used it since then. I'm a college graduate now so it just goes to show how good of an experience using your app was. Looking forward to your future if you decide to develop for Lemmy
I used the official app for the first time today. Boy does it suck! Mobile and RIF is done. How the hell am I going to take a shit again? 10 years of training... I don't know how my bowels will react!
You can continue to do the same, just with Lemmy.
I've used RIF for over six years. It's crazy to think about all the stuff the world has been through during that time. RIF was a huge source of community for me - especially during the pandemic. It stinks to say goodbye but all things end and I'm sure something better (maybe Lemmy?) will eventually fill the void. Really sad to see the position that Reddit has taken on all this.
I used Reddit exclusively through RIF. It was perfect for what I wanted out of the site.
A sad day. But now I'm here via Jerboa and like it a lot so far.
What an awesome app that stole countless hours from me. Thanks. I've decided to give Tildes a shot after seeing that talklittle has plans for an app, and generally I'm embracing the newfound diversity of all these new federated discussion venues. Onward and upward.
RIP RIF you were the GOAT
RIF was the only bearable way to use Reddit on my phone, I am The Big Sad™️
I'm still getting current Reddit data out of RiF, as of right now. Not sure exactly what's going on there.
Same, it logged me out but it's still updating. Anyone know how/why?
No clue. But it let me log right back in
Also, now that Jerboa is working. This is much better. The other Android app I was using was having a hard time
I think maybe RIF gets the main data from reddit via http, which is free. All the other functions such as logging in, commenting, hiding threads, etc use the API which doesn't work.
It's like RIF is accessing reddit in read only guest mode via free http.
RID (reddit is dead)
...very ironic acronym, lol
My first comment on lemmy! RIP RIF
Came here after years of buying and using RIF. It was a good ride, let's boost Lemmy.
thank you for developing this app, it has been a fixture of my phone ever since I discovered it many many years ago.
Goodnight sweet prince
Best app experience for a good part of a decade. RIP king
11 years of reddit, something like 350k comment karma (10k post), and all through your app.
Thanks mate
Thank you thank you thank you for the many many years of stellar service. I would be ecstatic if you just so happened to make LiF... you'd have an instant buy, you know!
Just uninstalled mine after about 10 years. RIP RIF.
RIF was one of the first apps I downloaded when I got a smart phone. I was looking for things to do with it and saw it trending in the App Store so I decided to check out this Reddit thing. For over a decade (until I moved to an iPhone) RIF was Reddit to me. I’ve gone to Reddit through official channels only a hand full of times and it’s a terrible experience.
Very bummed to see RIF and Apollo dead. To me, that means Reddit is dead. Whatever is leftover is a shell of what it once was.
My app is still working as of July 1st when logged out, haven't done any patching or anything. New content is loading.
@talklittle hope this isn't going to incur API charges for you :(
Read only might not need an auth session, so no API token. Id have to go check the docs again been a while since I messed with it.
Read only might not need an auth session, so no API token. Id have to go check the docs again been a while since I messed with it.
Same. It like it's in read only mode. I can still view content and read comments.
NSFW subreddits and posts also still work in RIF when logged out. Maybe it's just an oversight that'll be corrected at Reddit HQ next week.
Yeah, it was a super shitty birthday present to wake up and realize I couldn't browse reddit while I woke up.
I finally had to uninstall because I kept opening the app out of habit. But thank you, RIF, for all the good times.
Thank you @talklittle for having that app for so long
I didn't believe it would really go down until I saw it myself
Tried using Firefox for Android w/ Adblock for about 1 night and the user experience was as bad as using Lemmy, a site buckling under expanding user growth and in its infancy in development. So I said "Well, I might as well just use Lemmy".
Same here. For me, I think Reddit on Firefox is worse than Lemmy. With that said, I just signed up so my opinion may change, but so far so good
RestInPeace in Peace
I used Infinity for reddit on Android....I could have switched back to the original app and been ok in a lot of ways, but I know I would feel like a scab
Why does it still work though? 🤔
Came here because of the goodbye note from rif. Reddit is rif for me. The original app is just too bulky and annoying.
It's still not the same experience so I've been trying out apps for lemmy. Connect is the closest one I think.
On the other hand, Jerboa for Lemmy has started working for me again.
"RIP in Peace" is one of the most annoying redundant sayings to me... not sure why it bothers me so much, lol.
RIP RIF :-/
Ngl I was sad when I opened RIF today and it redirected me to the old.reddit login form. RIP RIF, Reddit was fun with you 😔
I've used reddit for 11 years and this was what I used it with mostly. Thank you!
My sweet sweet prince, farewell.
I froze the app on my phone :'(
F
Thank you for everything
Most used app on my phone, it will be missed.
It started working for me again.. it stopped last night, and didn't work this morning... but now it works..
I'm assuming it's a mistake by Reddit?
I think that RIF has lost enough users that sometimes it's traffic can get through the free API limit.
Is it actually down? A friend of mine says he still has access to it. I don't have an Android, do I can't confirm.
It can be patched with Revanced
Damn really?! I uninstalled it too 🤦♂️ and now it's not even available on playstore..
I have it working not signed in though. So i dont get my subs
You will be missed.
What's going on with my app 😧
I would guess people are posting crap and editing old comments
My RIF can still view content that is being posted, I went to the website and just like that... The content was live on Reddit.
Is it because the app needs to update?
Goodmorning, memmy/liftoff/wefwef
Why it still works on my device? Havent used it in weeks but now tried it out.
Same. Maybe the head is cut off but the body is still functioning...
It only works if you're logged out.
Bye RIF Thanks for all those years :'-(
Rest in Peace my love.
Long time BaconReader user. Very disheartening, but hopeful for the alternatives
Thank you for making Reddit a great experience for all of us. Even though we can no longer use it, RIF will always have a special spot on my phone.
PSA: Boost is best.
Ripe in Pisces.
Goodbye RIF. You'll be missed!
LIF??
Goodbye RIF. You'll be missed. LIF?
I still have not uninstalled the app..it does not work but I keep in memoriam.
I had never heard of this service before just now
The title of this post reminds me of the last words the MH370 pilot said to air traffic control before he suicided the airplane into the ocean.