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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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Reddit changed their minds, do a half step back - RIF can access Reddit but doesn't accept login (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Seems that someone at Reddit decided to grant read access to RIF, this morning I opened the app just for kicks and it wouldn't load anything. Well I tried again after lunch (Europe CET time) and it could access the front page but I was logged out. Trying to login shows a different logon page and even with valid credentials gives out a 'Bad request' response.

That means they are not just feeling the heat, they are probably burning really bad.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I can definitely browsee reddit with rif while logged out. Can't imagine what this accomplishes for reddit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe they can still say " oh hey look our traffic/requests are high"? They lost some valuation late last week so they might be looking for any way to indicate that the number of people/ access requests aren't dropping.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Read only use is hardly good though, that's just coating them money. You want engagement from users to drive ads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The argument was that API requests cost them money so we may as well hurt them financially a bit by continuing to browse on RiF. Spez can't do anything right 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Not a good sign if we literally can't tell if this is a galaxy brain strategy or a technical failure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, noticed the same thing. Strange.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

personal guess is that they're trying to continue to tempt people over to the official app. given that rif has a lot of power users, they're probably hoping that they'll give in when they want to interact with content

or idk could just be a total bug