Going to miss this app

  • 2xsaiko
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    361 year ago

    The first Reddit app I used. All good things must come to an end, I suppose. :(

  • @[email protected]
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    361 year ago

    Rif has had a huge impact on the development of my brain growing up. For better or for worse. Rip rif

  • @[email protected]
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    321 year ago

    RiF was all I used on mobile. Very sad to see it go. Reddit is dead to me. I hate them now and don’t see myself going back.

    Why does the internet have to be so shit now adays

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      1 year ago

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    • TheEmpireStrikesDak
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      11 year ago

      Same. The official app was so clunky and always crashing. I saw a recommendation for rif and never looked back. Without rif, I wouldn’t have even bothered to sign up for reddit.

      I logged back into rif on Wednesday for the first and last time since the boycott, to say goodbye to my friends in a private sub and put a “screw you spez” message as my flair on the biggest public sub I post in. Unfortunately I was the only one in the private sub not willing to put up with spez’s crap, so they won’t be recreating it on another platform. Thank you, spez, for taking that away from me.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      Just from the look of it, Thunder seemed very RIF-like. Last I saw TalkLittle was making an app for Tildes, no indication that he’s working on a Lemmy app sadly.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        I have Jerboa, Liftoff, and Thunder installed. They all have different bugs or issues…what bothers me a lot currently is not being able to hold on an image and do copy image for instant paste, without download -_-

        It is also not easy to open the current post/comment/whatever in a browser.

        After so many years, the way RIF works is just second nature.

      • @Paralda
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        11 year ago

        Thunder is a great RIF clone if you turn on compact mode and set thumbnails to the right. I’m enjoying it a lot so far

    • @TheAmishMan
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      21 year ago

      Talklittle responded on my post under Reddit migration, seems he’s not working on anything specific, but is anticipating Sync for Lemmy

    • fmstrat
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      1 year ago

      I don’t get it. “Reddit killed our app, so come talk to us on Reddit.”.

      • @[email protected]
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        271 year ago

        “our community continues to thrive” even though we’ll have nothing to talk about.

        Folks round here do need to understand though that there’s really not likely to be all that big an influx of people on the first. Reddit has far, far more inertia than the Lemmy community likes to imagine. This is a great example.

        • @[email protected]
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          81 year ago

          You aren’t wrong, but there are some of us who just made the jump to using Lemmy more ”seriously" because of the good bye message. I’ll probably stick to reddit on my computer, but stick to Lemmy on my mobile.

          Death (to reddit) by a thousand cuts, you know?

          • Che Banana
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            51 year ago

            I only browsed on the app so thats it for me. The difference here is there isn’t a doomscroll or ragebait algorithm controlling my content.

            Oh, you blocked The donald? well here’s the lstest news of him, and here’s some matt walsh drinking his own piss and tim pool xhumming it up with nazis…

  • VitaMan
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    291 year ago

    This was the only reddit app I ever used and I refuse to use any other, so I guess that’s it for me

  • HorseFD
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    231 year ago

    I loved this app when I used an Android and immediately bought premium. Very sad to see it go.

  • @[email protected]
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    191 year ago

    Related to another Reddit app, but not RIF:

    The Relay for Reddit dev (u/dbrady) is bravely working on Relay. I got an update yesterday. The changelog said “further reduce API calls”. I think he actually wants to make it a paid app, which I’d gladly pay for.

    I hate the Reddit change as much as the next guy, but if the Relay dev can actually make a profit from it that’d be awesome. The app cost a one-time $4 or something, which I’m sure he never made bank with. Having like $3-5/month for it would probably be sustainable.

    • @[email protected]
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      171 year ago

      I appreciate it, and that’s probably the right move. Unfortunately, I know that I wouldn’t want to pay that, knowing that I’d be helping feed Reddit.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        My sentiments exactly! The app developers will make the same, all or most of that fee will go straight into reddit’s pockets.

    • @[email protected]
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      131 year ago

      He wasn’t optimistic on being able to make that work, last I heard.

      He was initially talking about $3/month, but the issue is that most of the people willing to pay a monthly subscription for Reddit are the heaviest users. So instead of looking at the API usage for the average user, pricing needs to be aimed at the top 10% or 1% of users.

      I’m still looking into it, gathering data etc. Unfortunately the average call rates when broken down to the top 2, 5, 10% etc of users is painting a much different picture. This is the cohort of users I would expect to possibly convert to a subscription model and the average rates for those users can be 3,4,5 even 600 hundred calls per day just by the shear amount they use the app. Some of the top users are well over 1000 per day and sometimes over 2000.

      So I’m not sure yet. It would probably have to be a usage based subscription model if it was going to be anything and I’m not sure that’s worth doing. I am still looking into it but unfortunately I don’t think my earlier price points will work.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      Relay is the app I use. It’s is beyond awesome. I so wish for Relay for Lemmy. I would gladly pay again.

      I will never pay for an app for Reddit. They showed their true colors and they were ugly colors. Like shit brown.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      It’s sad. I’ve used a lot of different reddit apps over the years. Used pretty much all of them at least once.

  • @PaulDevonUK
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    111 year ago

    Does anyone know why they are not migrating?

    I haven’t been on Reddit since the end of the 11th.

  • Thul
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    111 year ago

    Reddit is Fun Golden Platinum was one of the first android apps I ever paid money for in July of 2010

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    Very sad, I used this app daily for over 10 years. I didn’t even had the premium version, I also never logged in, I just lurked there for countless days. It may not be the prettiest app, but it works just perfect. Does someone know how I can buy the developers a few coffees? They deserve it.

  • Gamingdexter
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    41 year ago

    That was my go to for Reddit, I will miss it dearly as it was my main daily used app