Goodnight, RIF

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.

Throwing in my appreciation for the best damn Reddit app there ever was.

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.

Rest in peace in peace

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 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

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

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.

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

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." 🥺

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!

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.

RIF was pretty much reddit for me, such a shame that it had to end in this way.

Reddit will never be Reddit without RIF.

RIP.

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

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.

Missed the opportunity to put. "RIF" in peace hahaaha

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.

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

Missed opportunity for

Rif in peace

Sad day, can't wait for LIF 🤟

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

Rif was reddit for me. It's saved me through so many boring commutes to the office and back. Rif, you shall be missed.

Rip in peace rif is fun :(

Good night, sweet prince. You weren't a good app... you were the best.

It would be awesome if RIF could be repurposed to be a front end for lemmy.

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.

RIP golden platinum. We had our good times

Been using RIF since around 2011. I hope that Lemmy or Tildes takes off.

Hey @[email protected], just wanted to say thanks for one more smile. May RIF is Fun RIP in Peace.

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.

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

Started using Reddit with RIF, used this for 7 years and stopped using Reddit now that RIF is gone.

The Internet is a river, not a pond. It was nice while it lasted, but we continue on.

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]

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.

RIF was the only Reddit I knew....

So long!! Hello! Lemmy! Cute name 😉

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.

10 years on reddit, most of that through RIF.

It feels like I've been kicked out of my home by monsters.

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.

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.

Reddit is fun was my jam. I won't reddit anymore without it.

Also my first comment on Lemmy. RIP RIF

Hello Lemmy is fun??

it was the best app for accessing reddit. it is gone so now I am done with reddit

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.

Loved the app, thank you for making it.

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

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.

Picked up premium last week in support. Thanks for all you did!

Rest in Feace, 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.

My first comment on lemmy! RIP RIF

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).

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.

Used it daily from my bed, the office, and the shitter.

RIPRIF

how is it still working on my phone?

I think I'm keeping the app on my phone for old time's sake

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 😭😭

ಥ⁠_⁠ಥ

RIP RIF

Sad, my most used app over the years.

Goodbye RIF. You'll be missed!

LIF??

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.

Boost app for Reddit made me come here, I hope this outgrows Reddit

I used rif for 12 years. Never found an app that suited me more.

T'was an honor and a pleasure shitposting with you.

Glad to begin a new adventure

Thanks for the ten years of procrastinating

RIF was fantastic. Thank you.

Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

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?

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

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/

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.

Poured out some of my beer in respect to RIF. Thanks for the amazing mobile experience!

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!

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. 💕

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!

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.

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 ♥️

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

Farewell old friend it was fun while it lasted. Hope they have a good future working in some new project.

I'm going to miss RIF so damn much. One of my favorite apps ever!!

It will be greatly missed, but interested to see how this all plays out with Lemmy and the other alternatives.

Will there ever be a Lemmy is Fun? I know about the Tildes thing.

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 will miss it...

Goodbye, RIF. It was the best.

I still open it accidentally on occasion :(

@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!

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.

I use Relay For Reddit and it is still working on my phone NSFW and all. I wonder why.

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

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.

My first comment on lemmy! RIP RIF

RID (reddit is dead)

...very ironic acronym, lol

I'm still getting current Reddit data out of RiF, as of right now. Not sure exactly what's going on there.

RIF was the only bearable way to use Reddit on my phone, I am The Big Sad™️

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 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.

Came here after years of buying and using RIF. It was a good ride, let's boost Lemmy.

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

Why does it still work though? 🤔

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 @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

RestInPeace in Peace

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.

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

Just uninstalled mine after about 10 years. RIP RIF.

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 :(

I finally had to uninstall because I kept opening the app out of habit. But thank you, RIF, for all the good times.

Yeah, it was a super shitty birthday present to wake up and realize I couldn't browse reddit while I woke up.

11 years of reddit, something like 350k comment karma (10k post), and all through your app.

Thanks mate

thank you for developing this app, it has been a fixture of my phone ever since I discovered it many many years ago.