Came here because RIF shut down and I can’t believe how bad the regular reddit app is. Here’s hoping that Lemmy is the new reddit!
LEMMY IS FUN … PLEASE. I will pay.
Thought the same thing. How about 3rd party reddit apps use lemmy’s API instead?
Hell, even a reddit api wrapper for the lemmy api.
I’m curious if it’s really that easy. It needs more front end functionality to account for the different instances and the way lemmy works.
they can’t just replace the API, it is a different website, different features etc.
I will pay, again.
Please add kbin too!
Lol same, I’d gladly pay for this. RIF was the best app that I’d used, and I will dearly miss it.
For now, Voyager is quite good.
Please please please LIF.
RIP RIF, now… LIF.
Throwing in my appreciation for the best damn Reddit app there ever was.
RIF is Fun was amazing. So well designed and everything just worked.
RIF should be a case study in UX/UI design: it’s user satisfaction (and really addiction) were a direct result to the ease of use of the interface and the speed with which you could consume content.
I fucking miss RIF already, and it’s not been 24 hours yet. When’s the last time you felt this way about an app?
Thanks for the app, @talklittle. I purchased RIF back in 2012 and it has been the only way I’ve used reddit on mobile ever since. Sad to see it go.
RIF is why I’m here, I deleted it from my front page, realized I hated going to the reddit website, and looked for something better.
I know he’s working on something different, for a different site, but I also hope he’s considering a LIF or something like that.
Try Connect for Lemmy, it’s the app closest to RIF I’ve found so far.
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What site post Reddit is he tying into?
Tildes
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Rest in peace in peace
Rest in fun RIF
Now do “RIF is fun for reddit” and you’ll get the joke.
A decade of a truly-superior user experience.
I can’t even bring myself to delete it. I feel like it needs to stay memorialized in my app list.
Thanks for such a great product, devs. It’ll be sorely missed.
I was going to leave Apollo on my phone but it kept showing up on my Home Screen in my smart widget and I kept tapping it to open it so it had to go :(
I’m having the same issue, haha – that muscle memory is gonna take some time to fade.
Maybe I’ll just disable it but know it’s always there 😅
I’ve put my wefwef link in place of my RiF icon and often expect RiF to open when I mindlessly tap it. Just discovered Connect though, which seems like a decent app too.
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I’ve removed it but the muscle memory is still trying to click where it once was.
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I just woke up, opened the app out of habit, saw a 429 error, and uninstalled. There’s an empty spot on my home screen now that I’ll fill with LiftOff after a mourning period
Granted I used Sync and not RiF (though I initially used RiF from like 2013-2015), but it looks so weird seeing the green Liftoff logo on my home screen, which has been largely unchanged for the past 8 years since I started using Sync.
Both Sync & RiF have patches available from the ReVanced team, they’ve taken the API keys from the official Reddit app and you can then inject them into Sync/RiF using:
Can you expand on this please, what is it, and what does it do?
Revanced is a tool some people made to patch apps. It was built to be a successor to vanced which was when basically they distributed modded adfree YouTube APKs. Google sent them a cease and desist, so they built a tool to mod apps yourself.
Jerboa with some minor tweaks in settings (list mode, amoled etc.) looks just like RIF for me. However the comments section is not accurate, but still does a pretty good job. Try it out.
You likely know but maybe others will see this. Sync for Lemmy is now available.
LiftOff? Eli5
It’s a Lemmy app that I like. The standard web app version of Lemmy feels cluncky to me, and I like the presentation of LiftOff
Ah, thanks for the info, using Connect to Lemmy myself, will have to try LiftOff see which I like more.
One of the new Android apps, Jerboa & Liftoff are open source available on F-Droid. I’m using Connect for Lemmy available on the playstore and Boost will be available soon as well as a myriad of other apps
is one of the new Lemmy mobile native apps. I tested it (Android) but so far “Connect for reddit” is the best in terms of stability and functionality. I don’t care so much about desing myself. Although both have nice desings imo.
You mean Connect for Lemmy?
Same same. It was awful to realize it had really happened.
Thank you talklittle! You made redditing so enjoyable with RiF. I was introduced to your app about a decade ago and never stopped using it. I spent years writing exhaustive and informative comments, none of it would’ve been possible without the functionality of RiF.
I’m glad to see you on the Fediverse now :)
POPPINKREAM IS HERE thank ye Gods! Love your work thank you for your dedication.
RIP RIF
tbf i didn’t actually stop using redditisfun. I followed the guide to patching RIF with revanced which changes the user agent of the app to hide from reddit that you’re using redditisfun
The instructions are here https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/14niwgu/revanced_patches_for_boost_infinity_rif_is_fun?sort=new
Gonna plug revanced here, too, since i already had revanced because i use it to have adfree YouTube and YouTube music with unlimited skips. Been using it since it was called vanced, when they just shared modified APKs. Then Google shut them down with a cease and desist letter so revanced was born. It’s a system for patching apps yourself which gives the developers a bit more legal cover.
Revanced.app
RIF made Reddit tolerable as the site declined in recent years. I might go back for the live NFL game threads but hopefully Lemmy gets some good sport communities by then. The Connect app has been decent so far but RIF was near perfect in it’s simplicity - I hope other app developers take note.
I feel ya, hopefully a good NFL and hockey community starts up over the summer.
RIF was what Reddit looked like to me. Used it for over a decade. I paid for it once and it was ad free always after that. Good bye old friend
The best $2.99 I spent on an app. My only regret is the author didn’t fleece me for more. I would have gladly paid the $2.99 yearly.
Me too
I’ll miss Reddit and mostly RIF, but I’m not staying on that sinking ship. I hope Lemmy and Mastodon will get more and more traffic so it just replaces these toxic platforms at one point.
RIP RIF, you will be missed.
Would pay for Rif for lemmy
“Error loading Reddit data. Please try again later.” 🥺
I got that at 1900. I was driving. I thought I had until 2359. Goodby dear friend.
It seems like it stopped at 23:59 UTC
I’m in EDT time and it quit for me at 1900, which is 23:00 UTC
