Reddit Migration

Good night sweet prince.

Feels weird man, used that app for years and now it's gone.

RIF was Reddit for me, sad to see it end like this. But excited to see where this goes.

Weird. RIF still works here.

This was the last push i needed to actually move on from reddit. Now i'll finally be able to retrain my muscle memory to open kbin instead of RIF when i sit on the toilet.

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.

I'm legitimately sad to see RIF go. It will be missed. :(

This is the one I used too. Goodbye Reddit.

Reddit is gonna burn hard and we are all here for it u/spez is gonna face the music once and for all and we are all here for it!

F to pay respect

Wonder how big the next wave of refugees is gonna be.

Sync for Reddit is shut down now too 😢

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

Now for Reddit is going to stay open but I don't suspect it will be for long. Reading his post I don't think he has a firm grasp of what it's going to look like working within reddits cogs.

Was in the middle of deleting all of my post history using RIF when it stopped working. Had to finish up on a browser, sadly.

Fyi just tried the app and it still loaded Reddit for me.

Same with Sync. The dev is working on a Lemmy app, but I'm not convinced it can replace Reddit.

Yup has stopped working for me as well. Rip RIF.

The shadow remains cast.

Thank you for 12 years of fun, talklittle

I thought it was shutting down tomorrow, so the shock made it sting all the more.

It's Fediverse full-time for me, now.

BaconReader is no more. 7 years of use from me and I am so upset. It's not the same over here

Dam, That is so real. RIP RIF my fav reddit client ever!

It was my favorite Reddit app for many years. But the fun is now over.

RIP RiF! Thanks for all the fun!

I ditched it a week ago, i didn't want to experience this. so glad I am here.

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.

Reddit will never be fun again

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.

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 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!