doctortofu 149 points 3 years ago

Rif was reddit for me. It was how I accessed it 99.9% of the time. By far the most used app on all my phones for more than a decade. I'm extremely sad that this is how it dies, but all things must end, it seems. Rest in peace old friend. And rot in pieces reddit, for killing the best goddamned app I've ever used...

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Kill_joy 49 points 3 years ago

100% agree. It was the only way I viewed Reddit for 11 years.

The day that pop-up appeared saying it was shutting down I set all the (small) subs I moderated to private, deleted my account, and came on over here. What a fucking shame.

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ivanafterall 46 points 3 years ago

Yes, I'm sure Apollo was great, but I never even knew it existed until this whole fiasco, because I jumped to RIF when it was still "Reddit Is Fun" and never looked back, because it did everything I needed, perfectly.

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ErraticDragon 20 points 3 years ago

rif's UI was near perfect for me. I called it an app version of old.reddit, which was exactly what I wanted.

(Before old.reddit I just considered it a perfect app version of Reddit.)

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I_Miss_Daniel 10 points 3 years ago

I'm sure I had it many years before this image from 2016 - it's always had a place on my home screen since the original Galaxy Tab 1. (which is still going today as an SMS device at a radio station.)

Replaced with /kbin PWA for now.

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Dewopalis 2 points 3 years ago

Dude I had the exact same tablet with rif back in the day

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unfnknblvbl 5 points 3 years ago

It was how I accessed it 99.999999% of the time.

FTFY. The only time I didn't, was when I was accessing it for work, or when somebody sent me a Reddit link after the company started infesting all mobile web users with that app-only bullshit. :(

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Dewopalis 3 points 3 years ago

Same for me. I originally downloaded some rage comics app on a Galaxy Gio which basically just pulled from f7u12 (remember those days lol). I kept seeing references to reddit and went and downloaded the first app I could find. 11 years later RIF has been my most used app on every device and I'm gonna miss it

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Xeelee 3 points 3 years ago

I've been using Sync, but I feel the same. But it's all water under the bridge now. Reddit is over and it's time to move on.

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Coskii 1 point 3 years ago

As soon as I heard RIF was shutting down I left reddit altogether. I don't have strong feelings about the official app one way or the other but the way in which the execs at reddit decided to handle this situation was more than enough to get me to move.

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