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Teppic @kbin.social

1y ago

RIP RIF

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

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RIF was my Reddit app of choice for like 10 years, will miss it for sure :(
- 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.
- I'm unsure what the glitch is, but I got something weird. I'm also getting the unable to load message on RiF, so I was getting ready to delete the app. As a sentimental moment to say goodbye, I clicked to log out. Then bam - pages start loading? I can browse Reddit but can't interact. Is this just some cached glitch?
- Even up to the last day I really thought Reddit would see the light. Oh well. I'll miss how perfect the design of RIF was.

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.
  
  Okay, but for now all the "RIP Reddit" posts give migrating Reddit users a feeling of, "So this is where the other people like me went."
- 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!
  
  Yeah I keep wishing I could see this in the Apollo UI
  
  There's one in the works called Artemis

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.
- Apollo crashed as soon as I finished reading the eulogy post
  
  I didn’t get to :( It wouldn’t load.
  
  That was great timing. I hope you’re not into reading apocalypse or doomsday books, though.
- 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.
  
  A link to Lemmy would have been good.
- 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.
  
  Reddit killed the third party apps early.
- 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 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
- I got downvoted really bad on a comment i made. Some people are riding it out till the wheels fall off. Some don't like the way reddit treated third-party apps so they came over. Everyone got there reasons!

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.
- I was high on the hopium that they'd eventually show some flex too

I actually feel really sad for an app. Got the 429 error and my heart sunk. Rest in peace friend.

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.

Hello everyone! RIF stopped working so here I am! I hope everyone is doing well.

Reddit was fun

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.
- What really confounds me is how he can confuse creating infrastructure for creativity and information sharing with having any actual value? Lol. The dude is a fucking nitwit. Full stop.

RIP
I thought I'd check it one more time this evening, but no. Nothing there.
- Same, I thought "hey, I should get a screenshot or something to remember it by."

I can't bring myself to delete it
- Same

Fuck Reddit, long live Kbin/Lemmy/Fediverse.

Apollo died at exactly 7:00pm eastern for me.

The silver lining is that we discovered the fediverse
- I just wish I actually...Liked it?
  
  It's clunky and kinda empty right now, but hopefully it'll get better.
  Definitely needs a bunch of content that isn't "Reddit sucks."

End of an era for sure.
Glad to be a part of Kbin going forward.

Fuck spez.

Uninstalling RIF was a very melancholy experience -(

Rest in peace truly a legendary app.

The silver lining is that we discovered the fediverse

@Teppic Apollo too :/
- Poor Hugo gone to his final resting place.. 😢
  I'll probably have to get the full pixel pals on my kids tablet to help support Christian.

Pretty wild how fast this all happened. Good riddance to reddit and the rude people that inhabit it

o7

Sync also shut down at the same time. Sent out a notification to everyone.

reddit was fun

reddit was fun :(

spez is a worthless piece of human garbage

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I'm legitimately sad to see RIF go. It will be missed. :(

RIP to the only way I would use reddit. So I'm done with reddit too.

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.

Feels weird man, used that app for years and now it's gone.

Weird. RIF still works here.
- Are you still logged in?
  It still works as read only, after logging out.
  
  Not logged in. Seems to be only read mode.

Reddit is gonna burn hard and we are all here for it u/spez is gonna face the music once and for all and we are all here for it!
- He was always there to take the flak anyway. He is now past his usefulness as far as the investors are concerned. he'll be jettisoned.

I've put the app on the corner to always remember what was taken away from us.

RIP RIF

This is the one I used too. Goodbye Reddit.

RIF was Reddit for me, sad to see it end like this. But excited to see where this goes.

Good night sweet prince.

This was the last push i needed to actually move on from reddit. Now i'll finally be able to retrain my muscle memory to open kbin instead of RIF when i sit on the toilet.

F to pay respect

Yup has stopped working for me as well. Rip RIF.

The shadow remains cast.
Thank you for 12 years of fun, talklittle

Now for Reddit is going to stay open but I don't suspect it will be for long. Reading his post I don't think he has a firm grasp of what it's going to look like working within reddits cogs.

I thought it was shutting down tomorrow, so the shock made it sting all the more.
It's Fediverse full-time for me, now.

Sync for Reddit is shut down now too 😢
So long, and thanks for all the fish!

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