as a soon-to-be former user of RIF, i will certainly miss the simplistic design and the ease of use of the app. o7
Hopefully one of the 15+ apps in development for Lemmy/kbin will be similar.
I mean jerboa seems pretty similar
I always said once RIF goes, I go.
Turns out I was wrong. I left a few weeks early.
Was a RIF user for over 10 years, deleted my reddit account, all the reddit apps I had and moved here. Was good fun while it lasted. Remember nothing lasts forever and change is good, even if it feels bad at the time.
I've been on Reddit since 2012. I don't believe I used any app other than RiF during that whole time. Currently using Power Delete Suite to wipe my account then I plan to delete. I've found quite a better home over here on Lemmy anyways. Wish I had known of this place sooner.
Check back occasionally to verify your comments remain deleted. While I've not had it happen to my main, others have reported their comments seem to return soon after doing a purge.
Shredders going back at least five years have been editing comments and replacing them with placeholder text prior to deleting, on the assumption they might only be retaining the final version before deletion.
I'll second the "Wish I learned about Lemmy sooner" bit. Just feels so much better.
Have a nice day, fellow reddit refugee!
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I used RiF for over a decade and it was consistently excellent. Too good for this world apparently. You will be missed.
Hoping to see Lemmy is Fun or something similar from them. Been on RIF for years...
RIF worked great on my shitty rural internet. The official app probably wouldn't even load anything assuming I could download it in the first place. That's why places like Lemmy are so important to me in a world full of video content.
It would be cool if the dev(s) came out with a version for Lemmy, too. rif is my favorite reddit app and I'd love to be able to access Lemmy from a version of it.
RIF has been my app of choice for 10 years. I hope that the developers jump on over and create a Lemmy version. Until then I am using Jerboa and it is working well enough. Death to Reddit, Long Live the Fediverse!
Reddit is dead, Long live the Fediphiles!
Looks like RIF is going to Tildes
Tildes is really a great place. But it being invite only was probably the worst thing for it if it wanted growth. People couldn't get on Tildes so they came to places like Lemmy or Kbin or one of the others.
Fun fact: Back in the day RIF paid for the pleasure to use the reddit name and spez killed the deal upon taking over.
I do remember when its name was "Reddit is fun" and then was renamed to "RIF is fun" but never questioned why. Your explanation fits the current mess.
I always wondered why the app was called RIF is fun. I always tried to search for reddit because I thought the app was called Reddit is Fun.
I didn’t use RIF but I left Reddit anyways because of their blatant cockiness now.
Love something in RIF's vein for Lemmy. I don't know if the dev is interested but I hope someone picks up this design philosophy for a Lemmy app
I'm using Jerboa and it's reasonably close.
Yeah, lot of thing to improve, but it is a really great app given it's early state.
Seconded! RIF was the perfect minimalistic interface. Everything you want, nothing you don't. RIP RIF
Reddit is fun was the first smartphone app I heavily used. I was with it pretty much since it was created. RIP.
thank you RIF for the years of clean viewing on mobile. your work is greatly appreciated. I wish good things for you in the future.
12 years on Reddit... 12 years on RIF.
Man this sucks
The end of an era. RiF was a goto for me back when I was on Android. Really liked using the compact mode to digest things quickly. As another commenter said, it felt like a proper enhancement of old.reddit. I wish the dev well for whatever future is in store for him.
Goodbye RIF, my preferred app from the before times.
I see a lot of developers coming over to Lemmy, which is great, but I'll throw out that I've been on Jerboa since maybe my second or third day on Lemmy and I really like it. A little different than RIF, but easy and straight forward to use. Give it a try if you haven't already!
Thank you for all those years, RIF. This is bullshit, man.
Upvote for this post, downvote for Reddit's decision. Very sad times for the devs and users of 3rd party apps.
Now onward to the fediverse!
RiF was my gateway to Reddit. Sad it's all coming to an end. RIP RIF
I used RiF initially because the phone I had 8 years ago was very old for it's time, running Android 4.3 which was largely obsolete at the time.
The official reddit app, the masterpiece that it is (/s) couldn't be downloaded for my version of Android. But I could download RiF. And so that's what I used back then.
I've cycled through a few phones since then; most of them Google Pixels, which certainly are capable of running the official reddit app. But RiF was more than just a crutch for an old OS for me. It was my go-to way to browse reddit, and so I stuck with it, up until now.
No more RiF, no more reddit. It's been a fun run, rest in peace.
Thank you, RIF. You were reddit to me. I won't be going back.
I am not by nature a sentimental person regarding software but I will truly miss RiF.
You were the first app that I ever paid money for. And you remain the only way I will look at reddit on my mobile device. Rest In Spaghetti, Never Forgetti
Bye RIF, i'll uninstall you while doing a salute when you flatline.Thank you for all the years of being Reddit for me. Oh and spez? FUCK YOU
Still missing two options from RiF:
Sbubby - Eef Freef!
Sbubbies are images in which the text of a logo has been cleanly edited to read something different.
We've altered our ruleset a bit from the subreddit, and these may change at short notice as we acclimate to Lemmy.
Rules:
