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That's it folks. RIF has stopped working.
Reddit is no longer fun.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

[–] catlover 2 points 2 years ago

works for me 🤔

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

For actual? Infinity still works, I guess they shut off at different times?

But yeah RIP legend

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

infinity plans to switch to a subscription model. might be they stay working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure who they're doing it for, I'm pretty sure at least 99% of the people that used it in the first place are now done with Reddit or only use old.reddit.com (until that socket disappears too)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Relay still working for the time being

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

Used it on every phone since my Motorola Droid. It will be missed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think I started on iPhone 3, if that's possible. Alien blue sounds too familiar to me and I think I read it was iOS. Means I've been around longer than the 10 years on rif, if my memory is correct. End of the day it's a damn shame, greed everywhere you look, amazing how one person or a few can affect thousands so easily.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@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.

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

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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

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

For some reason RIF is working for me again as long as I'm not logged in. It stops working when I try to login.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Same for me, not sure how long it will last...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've been on reddit for 17 years, I can't remember when I bought RIF. It was a good run.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

o7 rip to the primary way i used reddit for over 10 years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Logged out of my account on RIF and it started working again.

Death throes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
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