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 :)
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
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.
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!
Came here from RIF. RIP
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.
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.
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.
Rip in peace rif is fun :(
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.
it was a long run, sad to see it go :( thanks for everything
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.
Started using Reddit with RIF, used this for 7 years and stopped using Reddit now that RIF is gone.
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
Also my first comment on Lemmy. RIP RIF
RIF was the only Reddit I knew....
So long!! Hello! Lemmy! Cute name 😉
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).
Reddit is fun was my jam. I won't reddit anymore without it.
Rest in Feace, RiF
10 years on reddit, most of that through RIF.
It feels like I've been kicked out of my home by monsters.
ಥ_ಥ
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 ♥️
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.
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.
Thanks Talklittle!
RIF Golden Platinum was my most used app since 2011
Another Reddit refugee reporting in. RIF was how I reddited... It will be greatly missed.
Sad, my most used app over the years.
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.
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!
Boost app for Reddit made me come here, I hope this outgrows Reddit
T'was an honor and a pleasure shitposting with you.
Glad to begin a new adventure
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!
RIF was fantastic. Thank you.
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. 💕
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
Poured out some of my beer in respect to RIF. Thanks for the amazing mobile experience!
There is this:
Or if you are looking at stuff on Reddit still: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14nb5qs/comment/jq87sjd/
I will miss it...
Farewell old friend it was fun while it lasted. Hope they have a good future working in some new project.
Goodbye, RIF. It was the best.
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.
It will be greatly missed, but interested to see how this all plays out with Lemmy and the other alternatives.
RID (reddit is dead)
...very ironic acronym, lol
Yeah, it was a super shitty birthday present to wake up and realize I couldn't browse reddit while I woke up.
Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
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.
Used it daily from my bed, the office, and the shitter.
RIPRIF
RIF was the only bearable way to use Reddit on my phone, I am The Big Sad™️
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.
RIF is Reddit for me. Unless I'm at a computer. Sorry they did us dirty, but thanks for the past ten years.
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.
Best app experience for a good part of a decade. RIP king
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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
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".
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.
Goodnight sweet prince
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!
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.
Why does it still work though? 🤔
thank you for developing this app, it has been a fixture of my phone ever since I discovered it many many years ago.
RestInPeace in Peace
On the other hand, Jerboa for Lemmy has started working for me again.
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 😔
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.
I'm going to miss RIF so damn much. One of my favorite apps ever!!
Thank you for everything
I used RIF for a looong time, tried official reddit app once, never opened it again. Never heard of Apollo until recently. Thank you @talklittle@lemmy.world
RIP RIF :-/
My sweet sweet prince, farewell.
Bye RIF Thanks for all those years :'-(
Goodmorning, memmy/liftoff/wefwef
Rest in Peace my love.
Good night, sweet prince. You weren't a good app... you were the best.
Long time BaconReader user. Very disheartening, but hopeful for the alternatives
Hey @talklittle@lemmy.world, just wanted to say thanks for one more smile. May RIF is Fun RIP in Peace.
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've used reddit for 11 years and this was what I used it with mostly. Thank you!
RIP RIF you were the GOAT
Most used app on my phone, it will be missed.
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
Thanks for giving me a home for the past 10 years.
I had never heard of this service before just now
Ripe in Pisces.
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 @talklittle@lemmy.world , I've enjoyed RIF a lot since 2014.
PSA: Boost is best.
Picked up premium last week in support. Thanks for all you did!
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
I finally had to uninstall because I kept opening the app out of habit. But thank you, RIF, for all the good times.
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.
I still have not uninstalled the app..it does not work but I keep in memoriam.
