Same. RIF was great. Such a perfect app! RIP RIF
Really was unique, I tried other apps just to trial them but RIF always came top for me. I missed it so much when I had an iPhone, was the first app I downloaded when I went back to android!
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?
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.
Hopefully we can get a mobile client soon as well, because then I think it'll really take off.
The problem the kbin has right now though is that it's so new I don't think an API exists yet. Even if it did, development is happening so rapidly that by the time you hammered out your app the API may have changed several times.
We will eventually get our app, but kbin needs to grow as a website a little bit first.
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.
The developer of Apollo said Reddit cut them off unexpectedly but he was able to make it stop crashing by deleting his token. He can no longer access anything now but at least you can go into the app.
Apollo crashed as soon as I finished reading the eulogy post
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.
BaconReader down as well.
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 🤣
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!
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.
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.
RIP
I thought I'd check it one more time this evening, but no. Nothing there.
Apollo died at exactly 7:00pm eastern for me.
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."
Time to go write posts and upload pictures that have nothing to do with Reddit.
I can't bring myself to delete it
Same
Pretty wild how fast this all happened. Good riddance to reddit and the rude people that inhabit it
Rest in peace truly a legendary app.
Fuck Reddit, long live Kbin/Lemmy/Fediverse.
reddit was fun :(
RIP to the only way I would use reddit. So I'm done with reddit too.
spez is a worthless piece of human garbage
@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.
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.
Wonder how big the next wave of refugees is gonna be.
I'm actually all for the huge wave. I found this in anticipation of the loss of RIF and I am very excited to see it take off.
Maybe all the new people to Reddit that dgaf about the people behind the content will just stay on actual Reddit and we will get the better groups?
Maybe all the new people to Reddit that dgaf about the people behind the content will just stay on actual Reddit and we will get the better groups?
I hope so. I'm excited to see how the fediverse will grow and like you expect that the quality of our communities to be maybe a bit better than those that decide to stick with reddit. I'm going to miss the smaller niche subs I was a part of until we can have them grow over here.
F to pay respect
Fyi just tried the app and it still loaded Reddit for me.
Feels weird man, used that app for years and now it's gone.
It was my favorite Reddit app for many years. But the fun is now over.
RIP RiF! Thanks for all the fun!
I used RIF for its accessibility features and screen reader support.
The Reddit App has none of that.
Thank you RIF developers for making reddit compact and readable.
Welcome to lemmy / kbin to all new reddit refugees!
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.
RIF was a great app. Here's to hoping we bring all the best parts of Reddit across and continue the fun!
Used it on every phone since my Motorola Droid. It will be missed.
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.
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.
I keep saying it but this is more emotional than I would have thought. It's an end to an era. And RIF and the other apps helped us all connect, laugh, cry, vent, argue, meme and stuff together. The app devs were as much responsible for the success and entertainment of reddit as reddit itself. It's a weird.
Relay still working for the time being
DBrady thinks they can keep the app open for ~$3/month.
Best of luck to him, but I ain't giving him that money to just give to reddit, 100000x if NSFW content isn't available.
@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.
o7 rip to the primary way i used reddit for over 10 years
For actual? Infinity still works, I guess they shut off at different times?
But yeah RIP legend
Lemmy: 1,660,853 users
Kbin: 52,449 users
2023-07-01 01:29:00 CEST
For future reference
Edit: Yes I know the Lemmy userbase is inflated but you can still kind of calculate the newcomers unless they start deleting all the bot accounts
Furthermore, since this has garnered a little bit of attention, for the kbin stats visit this site and for the Lemmy stats visit this site
infinity plans to switch to a subscription model. might be they stay working.
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)
RIF was my second app to use (BaconReader was first) and while I had switched to iPhone a few years ago both apps held a warm fuzzy spot in my heart. The early days of Reddit were amazing and it kills me that this is the direction they chose to go. RIP
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?
I'm on tildes, it's really refreshing and easy to use.
Main difference is that it seems to cater more of a serious adult conversations, which after years of being able to predict most comments before looking in Reddit, is very refreshing.
Lots less memes, communities are pre set and can't be created, seems to be to make sure to populate them before creating sub categories that people may see as in active and avoid.
Overall it feels like fedworld is best overall experience, squabbles is memes and lighthearted and tildes is more deep and thought out style of interaction.
thanks for using Leebra!
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RIF was my Reddit app of choice for like 10 years, will miss it for sure :(
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