RIP RIF

RIF was my Reddit app of choice for like 10 years, will miss it for sure :(

Welcome. It's gonna take everyone's effort to make KBIN fun. Upload content daily, and interact with other people's content that you have something to say about. It's gonna take effort from all of us.

Same, Apollo just crashes, I was hoping for some sort of miracle compromise lol

Feels weird after all these years.

I'm excited about the fediverse though!

The best app :(

Fun side effect if I accidentally click a reddit link from Google or whatever, it opens the app to an empty screen instead of giving reddit traffic! I'll keep it installed as a free blacklist tool 🤣

RIP :/

I'm still kinda in shock that it actually happened. Well, that's legitimately the end of the road for me on Reddit. I was on there for 12 years, and the majority of it was using RiF. Gg Spez, moron.

I know people were saying Reddit looked normal like all the protests, etc. did nothing but it’ll be interesting to see if that’s the same now that third party apps are dead or if people were just riding out the last days

I've been on reddit for 13 years, and have used rif for 12. Maybe the most used app I've ever had, was always a staple download whenever getting a new device. Just a damn shame this is happening.

That being said, this is my first post on kbin. Here's to hoping this community can grow and we can collectively move on from reddit's mess as it withers away from their pride and greed.

I actually feel really sad for an app. Got the 429 error and my heart sunk. Rest in peace friend.

Reddit was fun

Hello everyone! RIF stopped working so here I am! I hope everyone is doing well.

Man fuck spez and all the enablers. Seriously incompetent leadership and anyone thinking of touching that IPO might as well light their money on fire.

Tiktok alone shows the masses can and will switch to something completely different on a moments notice.

I don't know why, but I'm still in shock it actually happened. RIF is the only way I've ever used Reddit. Spez is burning down one of the best and most informative communities just to up his future net worth a few percentage points. It's disgusting.

I can't bring myself to delete it

RIP
I thought I'd check it one more time this evening, but no. Nothing there.

Apollo died at exactly 7:00pm eastern for me.

The silver lining is that we discovered the fediverse

Uninstalling RIF was a very melancholy experience -(

Fuck spez.

Rest in peace truly a legendary app.

End of an era for sure.
Glad to be a part of Kbin going forward.

reddit was fun

spez is a worthless piece of human garbage

@Teppic Apollo too :/

Sync also shut down at the same time. Sent out a notification to everyone.

Pretty wild how fast this all happened. Good riddance to reddit and the rude people that inhabit it

o7

The silver lining is that we discovered the fediverse

RIP to the only way I would use reddit. So I'm done with reddit too.

End of an era. Start of a new one though.

That app was my most used app for the better part of 10 years. I'm legit grieving. I was so very lonely during this last decade, and Reddit had been the closest simulacrum to genuine social interaction that I got. I'm mourning, not just the passing of that app, but the trust I had in Reddit as a platform. I feel like I've lost a close friend. RIP.

reddit was fun :(

F

Reddit is gonna burn hard and we are all here for it u/spez is gonna face the music once and for all and we are all here for it!

I've put the app on the corner to always remember what was taken away from us.

Good night sweet prince.

RIF was Reddit for me, sad to see it end like this. But excited to see where this goes.

Feels weird man, used that app for years and now it's gone.

This was the last push i needed to actually move on from reddit. Now i'll finally be able to retrain my muscle memory to open kbin instead of RIF when i sit on the toilet.

This is the one I used too. Goodbye Reddit.

RIP RIF

Weird. RIF still works here.

Was in the middle of deleting all of my post history using RIF when it stopped working. Had to finish up on a browser, sadly.

I thought it was shutting down tomorrow, so the shock made it sting all the more.

It's Fediverse full-time for me, now.

I'm legitimately sad to see RIF go. It will be missed. :(

Wonder how big the next wave of refugees is gonna be.

Same with Sync. The dev is working on a Lemmy app, but I'm not convinced it can replace Reddit.

F to pay respect

Sync for Reddit is shut down now too 😢

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

Fyi just tried the app and it still loaded Reddit for me.

The shadow remains cast.

Thank you for 12 years of fun, talklittle

Now for Reddit is going to stay open but I don't suspect it will be for long. Reading his post I don't think he has a firm grasp of what it's going to look like working within reddits cogs.

Yup has stopped working for me as well. Rip RIF.

It was my favorite Reddit app for many years. But the fun is now over.

RIP RiF! Thanks for all the fun!

Dam, That is so real. RIP RIF my fav reddit client ever!

Shit sucks man. I've used Rif for longer than I can even remember. I never once used the official app or even view Reddit in my desktop.

Reddit will never be fun again

I keep saying it but this is more emotional than I would have thought. It's an end to an era. And RIF and the other apps helped us all connect, laugh, cry, vent, argue, meme and stuff together. The app devs were as much responsible for the success and entertainment of reddit as reddit itself. It's a weird.

I ditched it a week ago, i didn't want to experience this. so glad I am here.

BaconReader is no more. 7 years of use from me and I am so upset. It's not the same over here

I used RIF for its accessibility features and screen reader support.

The Reddit App has none of that.

I literally watched RIF die while watching a movie at home with my family. I was hoping it would be good to midnight, eastern time, but recognized this was completely arbitrary. One minute the front page worked. I put my phone down and went back to it 20 minutes later maybe around 8:45pm Eastern - I could only get one screen-full of links, and when I tried to scroll, I got an error saying it couldn't load anything else, and visiting other subreddits produced the same "no threads" message posted here. About 20 minutes after that, the front page was doing the same thing, and it was done.

RIF was great; I checked out reddit via mobile browser after it died, but the interface was just.... not nearly as clean as RIF. No interest in using the app.

I remember leaving Digg.com for reddit in 2010. Reddit was an easy choice. It remains to be seen where we'll all end up as there doesn't seem to be anywhere as big and developed as reddit was, even back then. Lemmy and the fediverse might be good initially for topics with a broader draw of people, but for our niche interests it'll be hard to kick reddit. Maybe for niche topics, things will look like pre-Digg internet, with more reliance on individual websites, individual forums, but with a healthy amount of discord added in.

Thank you RIF developers for making reddit compact and readable.
Welcome to lemmy / kbin to all new reddit refugees!

RIF was a great app. Here's to hoping we bring all the best parts of Reddit across and continue the fun!

@Teppic RIF (RES when on PC) .
was basically my reddit experience for 9-10ish years. RIF also used to pay money to reddit before spez took over from Yishan. Dumbass cut off a revenue stream for nothing and fucked over users in the process. Shitty mobile web + ad blockers from here on out if I use the site.

The Creator of RIF says they are working on tildes.net, I don't believe that's part of the fediverse sadly. I really know very little about tildes anyone know why they would choose that over trying to build for Lemmy or kbin?

Well that 's it for me. I blocked Reddit on my PC with UBlock Origin, and the only time I would look at Reddit would be through RIF. I can only hope for an app so good for kbin and the Fediverse.