thank you for developing this app, it has been a fixture of my phone ever since I discovered it many many years ago.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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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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Why does it still work though? ๐ค
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".
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Best app experience for a good part of a decade. RIP king
Yeah, it was a super shitty birthday present to wake up and realize I couldn't browse reddit while I woke up.
I've used reddit for 11 years and this was what I used it with mostly. Thank you!
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'm going to miss RIF so damn much. One of my favorite apps ever!!
"RIP in Peace" is one of the most annoying redundant sayings to me... not sure why it bothers me so much, lol.
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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.
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 ๐
My sweet sweet prince, farewell.
Thank you for everything
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On the other hand, Jerboa for Lemmy has started working for me again.
RIP RIF :-/