As much as I like browsing the Fediverse with Liftoff, RIF was just such a refined app. At the end RIF was what Reddit could have been.
Apollo is gone as well. Honestly, more legitimately sad than I expected. Mid-scrolling comments it closed out and no longer opens. I think I’d have preferred not to experience its death and it just happened while I slept lol. Memmy on iOS seems to be what I’ll move too and it is rapidly improving, but Apollo was just so damn good. Shucks.
Yeah posting this from Memmy. Really impressed with how far the app has improved in just a week to two.
RIP RIF
I am still using Apollo with my own key. But well RIP to the apps. Will be missed.
I have Infinity installed with my own key, but I realized how much reddit kinda sucks so I just stopped using it overall anyways.
Can’t really stop using Reddit since I mod a university sub. But yea it went to shit for sure.
One day your university 'sub' will be a uni hosted instance on ActivityPub, possibly Lemmy.
I really hope that happens but for now nobody moved even when I created a Lemmy instance for them.
Can you elaborate?
I'll miss my RIF 😭
Hello Lemmy
Yep it's dead. What a shame.
Longest serving app on all my Android devices since 2012
Every time I got a new phone, one of the first apps I would install was RIF.
Fuck u/spez for ruining a great experience.
lemmy.world is already getting so much slower now
So sad. I'm enjoying the fediverse so far but it just doesn't have the userbase to support the more niche communities I enjoy on reddit.
Yet
rif author is working on tildes.net client and has/is associated with https://lemmy.world/c/redditwasfun
It's a real shame they picked that over Lemmy. It's not going to be the next big thing with closed invites at the most opportune time, and I've heard not so great stuff about some of the community there. Pretty happy here but wish I could still use RIF.
that sure was a neat run of a decade using this one app, massive respect to the devs!
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It is very weird, but RIF still works for me. I am not logged in (never was). I was using it since it was called "Reddit is Fun", then as it migrated to "RIF is Fun" but once reddit upgraded their UI to the digg looking one, I exclusively used RIF on mobile.
Am surprised it still works.
Wanted to check out Sync today, I was greeted with the app repeatedly closing immediately after opening it. So that's dead as well. What a sad day this is for all of the 3rd party Reddit app devs.
Sync for Lemmy is a few weeks away so at least there's light at the end of the tunnel there.
Yeah, really looking towards both it and Boost for Lemmy. Both seem like great looking clients I'd use a lot. In the meantime, it's just Jerboa and Connect lol
Infinity seems to still work.
The RIF dev probably revoked this API key himself before to reddit admins got the chance.