Never thought I'd grieve the loss of an app, but here we are
I was on reddit for the better part of a decade. It helped me through a lot of challenges, and I even lost my virginity because of the site....
I was on reddit for the better part of a decade. It helped me through a lot of challenges, and I even lost my virginity because of the site....
I will miss it.
Text of the webpage:...
Not sure if this is the right place to ask but I failed to get help elsewhere....
Not sure if people missed this post on this community earlier, but RIF can be patched so that it works the same as before: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/307734...
I opened RIF app today (7/1) and saw this, any idea what’s going on?...
Credit to /u/knightfader for their post:...
How? Why?...
RIF was the first app I would download on each of my phones. It was among the first apps I paid for....
Typing this from the RIF browser, after making my account here via the RIF browser....
Your app will be sorely missed!
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4749560e-6f2f-4bd5-82ed-4c5fc3102569.jpeg
I got this notification right in the middle of getting myself set up here. I used the awful official app only to post albums, but rif was my app for everything else. RIP in peace rif.
I just wanted to say: if you were to take every piece of software I’ve ever used in my 28 years on this earth, and you added up the cumulative amount of time I spent using each of them, RiF would be the winner. And it isn’t even close. And I now feel like I always took it for granted. It was always there, in the top left...
So I was reading a article about the recent shutdown and it mentioned Reddit is Fun still works but you can’t log in… so I logged out of my account and bam everything was working fine. I dont know when it will actually shut down but this is for whoever needs to hear this. Also thank you Lemmy for welcoming us refugees in.
I'll replace the icon on my homescreen with a Lemmy app, but I can't bring myself to fully uninstall RiF....
If you want to fill the gap on your home screen where rif was (RIP and thank you!), I have made good experiences with Connect for Lemmy: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect (was not too happy with Jerboa)....
Fuck Reddit.
They finally cut access....
Welcome to Lemmy! Here’s a simple guide for those migrating....
For the past ~2 weeks or so I’ve stayed away from reddit (which used to occupy one to two hours a day of my time). I stopped by today for one final nostalgic use of RIF.
I suspect I echo the thoughts of many users, but to me, RIF really was reddit. It was an app I downloaded from a friend’s recommendation in probably 2013, and is usually the first install whenever ri switch phones, also boasting pride of place right below where my thumb naturally rests on my home screen....
RIF was important to me in a way that's hard to describe. I will always consider it the pinnacle of minimalism functional design. and it was not function over form either, RIF looked amazing....
Thanks for everything RIF. You made Reddit usable, and, well..fun. Going to miss it, and without RIF I will simply not be using reddit anymore on mobile. I refuse to use the official app, I'd rather just fill that time with something else. Good luck in your future endeavours, RIF team.