That's it folks. RIF has stopped working.
Reddit is no longer fun.
RIF was my Reddit app of choice for like 10 years, will miss it for sure :(
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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Same. RIF was great. Such a perfect app! RIP RIF
Yeah I had premium for so long I don't remember buying it. It sucks to see but remember fuck u/spez.
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Welcome. It's gonna take everyone's effort to make KBIN fun. Upload content daily, and interact with other people's content that you have something to say about. It's gonna take effort from all of us.
We need to quickly move past Reddit. We cannot be consumed by it or we will repel newcomers. This needs to become it's own special place with it's own character. It'll take time. Be patient.
Reddit is the big news right now. It is unrealistic to expect people to just forget it and ignore it. Same thing happened with the initial Digg migration to Reddit all those years ago. Once Reddit stops being news because it failed or things went back to normal, then we'll stop talking about it.
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Hopefully we can get a mobile client soon as well, because then I think it'll really take off.
I've been gently hounding the RIF dev to see if he'll make a Kbin app, lol. Here's to hoping!
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Same, Apollo just crashes, I was hoping for some sort of miracle compromise lol
Yeah - as of about thirty minutes ago, Apollo just crashes as soon as it boots.
If you put the phone in airplane mode, you can get the app to load the UI at least. Doesn't do/mean anything but I suspect I'll be doing it out of nostalgia a lot in the coming months.
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I was hoping he put something special in like a countdown with that last update. Or that you could still open it and see something. App is totally dead.
Update: Apparently Reddit killed all the third party apps themselves early. Probably knowing we would comment only to protest and complain.
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Dang, that kinda sucks. If he was able to still have a going away message it could link to donations to help cover the refunds.
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BaconReader down as well.
Feels weird after all these years.
I'm excited about the fediverse though!
The best app :(
Fun side effect if I accidentally click a reddit link from Google or whatever, it opens the app to an empty screen instead of giving reddit traffic! I'll keep it installed as a free blacklist tool 🤣
Ha! Great idea, think I'll do the same
RIP :/
I'm still kinda in shock that it actually happened. Well, that's legitimately the end of the road for me on Reddit. I was on there for 12 years, and the majority of it was using RiF. Gg Spez, moron.
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I know people were saying Reddit looked normal like all the protests, etc. did nothing but it’ll be interesting to see if that’s the same now that third party apps are dead or if people were just riding out the last days
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I've been on reddit for 13 years, and have used rif for 12. Maybe the most used app I've ever had, was always a staple download whenever getting a new device. Just a damn shame this is happening.
That being said, this is my first post on kbin. Here's to hoping this community can grow and we can collectively move on from reddit's mess as it withers away from their pride and greed.
I actually feel really sad for an app. Got the 429 error and my heart sunk. Rest in peace friend.
Reddit was fun
Hello everyone! RIF stopped working so here I am! I hope everyone is doing well.
Man fuck spez and all the enablers. Seriously incompetent leadership and anyone thinking of touching that IPO might as well light their money on fire.
Tiktok alone shows the masses can and will switch to something completely different on a moments notice.
I don't know why, but I'm still in shock it actually happened. RIF is the only way I've ever used Reddit. Spez is burning down one of the best and most informative communities just to up his future net worth a few percentage points. It's disgusting.
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RIP
I thought I'd check it one more time this evening, but no. Nothing there.
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Apollo died at exactly 7:00pm eastern for me.
Fuck Reddit, long live Kbin/Lemmy/Fediverse.
Rest in peace truly a legendary app.
Fuck spez.
End of an era for sure.
Glad to be a part of Kbin going forward.
Uninstalling RIF was a very melancholy experience -(
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reddit was fun
The silver lining is that we discovered the fediverse
Pretty wild how fast this all happened. Good riddance to reddit and the rude people that inhabit it
Sync also shut down at the same time. Sent out a notification to everyone.
spez is a worthless piece of human garbage
reddit was fun :(
RIP to the only way I would use reddit. So I'm done with reddit too.
F
End of an era. Start of a new one though.
That app was my most used app for the better part of 10 years. I'm legit grieving. I was so very lonely during this last decade, and Reddit had been the closest simulacrum to genuine social interaction that I got. I'm mourning, not just the passing of that app, but the trust I had in Reddit as a platform. I feel like I've lost a close friend. RIP.
I'm legitimately sad to see RIF go. It will be missed. :(
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