From the site:
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.
(This space will be updated on July 1.)
Thank you for posting this here. Really heartwarming to receive so much kindness.
Let’s be optimistic for the future of Internet communities. Technology evolves and puts more power into the hands of the users. Excited to see what’s next.
Thanks for all your hard work :)
Thank you for all these years. Hope to see a Kbin ompatible app one day!
This is your app? You’re awesome dude, RiF was the only way I browsed reddit on my phone. Thank you for the years of joy and I wish you success in all your future endeavors.
Glad to share it! Thank you so much for your hard work, I cannot overstate how much I loved your app. I’m sure you’ve been getting this bunch but seriously the experience on Reddit is fun was what made Reddit. I have barely used it ever on a computer and have never really experienced it any other way. It is by far the number one used to have on my phone and losing access to it is losing access to Reddit for me. I’d love to know about any other projects that you’re working on because the quality and simplicity of your product was what made the experience so great all these years!
Thanks for all the work you put into RIF. I joined Reddit in 2008 and used RIF daily from the very start of it.
Been a Reddit is Fun good user for over a decade. Is by far been my most used app. Earlier editions had the little alien in the corner, and I have three phones with that logo burned into the screen. I really have been enjoying the growth of Lemmy/Fediverse, and it reminds me honestly of early Reddit. But still it’s bittersweet losing RiF and how drastically the community of Reddit has changed over the last few months
Ok, so is RIF going to make an app for the fediverse so I can keep using it?
The RIF dev is working on an app for Tildes, last I read. Didn’t see anything else mentioned.
This is correct. I’m also excitedly watching Sync for Lemmy as Lemmy and Kbin are pretty neat so far and will only get better. I have been finding myself using all of the above.
Although @ljdawson and I have been vicious blood rivals in the past in the Reddit third-party Android apps sphere, we’ve been interacting more lately and see eye-to-eye on a lot of things. Great person and great developer.
Glad to see you here!
Like many others RIF was Reddit for me.Sad to see it go.
But, I’m also using Tildes, so will be watching out for Three Cheers with great interest.
Rif was reddit for me. It was how I accessed it 99.9% of the time. By far the most used app on all my phones for more than a decade. I’m extremely sad that this is how it dies, but all things must end, it seems. Rest in peace old friend. And rot in pieces reddit, for killing the best goddamned app I’ve ever used…
100% agree. It was the only way I viewed Reddit for 11 years.
The day that pop-up appeared saying it was shutting down I set all the (small) subs I moderated to private, deleted my account, and came on over here. What a fucking shame.
Yes, I’m sure Apollo was great, but I never even knew it existed until this whole fiasco, because I jumped to RIF when it was still “Reddit Is Fun” and never looked back, because it did everything I needed, perfectly.
Word. As an Android user, Apollo wasn’t on my radar. Christian certainly made a name for himself throughout all of this - he was a phenomenal David against Reddit’s Goliath, but I RiF was the backbone of my Reddit experience and will be dearly missed. Excited to see what apps for kbin rise from the ashes of Reddit.
I’ve used both RIF (10-15 years ago) and Apollo (last 8 years or so). They are and were light years ahead of the official app. At this point I’m just like, “OK, bye bitch” with Reddit.
rif’s UI was near perfect for me. I called it an app version of old.reddit, which was exactly what I wanted.
(Before old.reddit I just considered it a perfect app version of Reddit.)
As soon as I heard RIF was shutting down I left reddit altogether. I don’t have strong feelings about the official app one way or the other but the way in which the execs at reddit decided to handle this situation was more than enough to get me to move.
I’m sure I had it many years before this image from 2016 - it’s always had a place on my home screen since the original Galaxy Tab 1. (which is still going today as an SMS device at a radio station.)
Replaced with /kbin PWA for now.
Dude I had the exact same tablet with rif back in the day
It was a comically large phone at the time (7") - OLED screen, excellent speakers.
Sync was my poison. I used it enough that I don’t feel any particular need to ask for a refund… I got way more than my money’s worth out of it. In fact, I’ll pay the author again if a new Sync arrives with Kbin support.
I’ll pay the author again if a new Sync arrives with Kbin support.
Do I have some good news for you
Sync for Lemmy in 3~ weeks, direct kbin support later on
That kinda hits different. I’m so over reddit but seeing RiF go is really making me sour
Same
I’m ready for reddit to burn to the ground at this point
