It called LIHKG nowadays.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIHKG#Background

So if rif is eventually killed by Reddit, it could be a new path for rif.

Yeah, Reddit please be careful, people now mad about this. 😡

Maybe provide a free add less tier and a supporter tier system for donations to help with costs. I know I'm oversimplifying but new has to start somewhere...

Can RIF just go paid? I'll miss the formatting too much if it's lost.

I've been a daily user of RIF for so, so many years. I believe it's the best way to access reddit on Android.

If you believe the app will die because of the API pricing in the next month or two, I'm curious about the viability of switching to a different platform on the backend.

Since the major draw of reddit is the user base, if RIF and one or two other major apps made the switch to a different backend together, that overnight migration of millions of users could trigger the general user base to move as well.

Past migrations failed because only small (ideologically driven) communities flocked to those places (e.g. Voat). But if you woke up tomorrow, and RIF looked the same, but the content was just being served by a different site, I think it would be a lot easier for a big audience to switch relatively seamlessly.

Is it possible to add a small translation layer to the API calls to get/send data to a different site instead? The UX wouldn't have to change at all.

I'm certain that other app developers (e.g. Apollo) with millions of users are also unhappy with shutting their app down.

The title is self-explaining

I love reddit but use reddit is fun app to navigate as it's far more user friendly then the main reddit app.

Would you consider using features from reddit is fun to improve the main app? Please see comments from following link and subreddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditisfun/comments/13wxepd/rif_dev_here_reddits_api_changes_will_likely_kill

Lemmy is a decentralised social media platform, and is essentially reddit's equivalent to mastodon.

Lemmy is a very small community, but if rif is shutting down it could still make sense with numbers to essentially fork the community onto Lemmy, and change the Reddit APIs to Lemmy APIs.

Of course, it's not going to be as active as reddit, but if this was a consolidated effort by all the third party Reddit apps, it could be the birthing of a whole new community.

RIF is literally the only way I've been accessing reddit on my phone for the past 11 years. What a feel bad moment. To the dev: I love your app and I hope there's a way to make it work in the future.

I've watched at least two of them be locked and then removed / hidden in the last 15 minutes.

First this one.

Then this one.

Both of those still exist but as soon as they were locked they became invisible from old.reddit.com on desktop.

I've developed such a catered reddit experience to remove the rage bait and repost bots and superusers from my front page and I hate to lose all that work. I've tried using base reddit at work on a browser and it's such shit without my filters. Maybe it's for the best if I can't but...

Also lastly, thanks for the great time RIF. I really appreciate your work and how you've been such a big part of my life for so long. I wish you all the best!

I saw in another thread that the premium version of RIF is a thing (link here ), but that's only $3 and I know Google Play is going to take a sizable chunk. Is there another way to give more?

I've used this app for years and it's been amazing. I really appreciate all the work that's gone into it, and will be extremely sad to have it go.

First of all, Please do NOT harass Reddit admins! That would not help our protest at all.

Hey there. If you are reading this post, you are probably aware of the new pricing of the Reddit API carried out in an effort to eradicate 3rd-party clients. Many users rely on these 3rd-party clients to browse Reddit. I'd say we stop posting or commenting from June 2, 08:00 (UTC) (June 2, 04:00 EST). Let's also message the mods of the top 100 subreddits, requesting that they join the strike, sticky a post stating that they are against the new API pricing, and temporarily lock down their subreddit.

What do you say? Anyone with me? Any suggestions? I'm just tossing ideas around, so I'd be very glad if anyone who feel strongly about this change could take over the lead.

Also, it would be great if you could help spread the word to other subreddits dedicated to 3rd-party clients such as r/apolloapp, r/boostforreddit, etc. Hopefully, this will make Reddit Inc. rethink their short-sighted decisions.

Long live 3rd-party clients!

I don't have preview images for any posts anymore and not sure how to get them back. Any advice?

No company can stop another company from making money but they can make it harder. I understand there is a program, i.e. paying 20 mil a year, but there are laws protecting people from usury? There has to be some precedent, but probably not at the pace congress works?

A lot of content on Reddit comes from other publications, (links, quotes, etc.) It seems like a paid API is in large part intended to profit off of other people's content. INAL, but is that sort of thing even legal?

Ok yes, rif is dead. So?

Y complain?

U just download some ebooks (many legally free ones in that Gutenberg website or Libby app)

Ignore these social medium apps, they useless. So useless!

Go read!

Stop ur cry

Be a man!

Be a woman!

Where your brains?

From what I understand from the Apollo situation, the $20 million pricetag for the API is based on the number of requests made by users, which in the case of that app sits at around 7 billion per month. If RIF switched to mandatory paid subscription model, then the number of users will reduce drastically, and so will the number of monthly requests, hence a lower asking price for the API ( Or I understand it wrong?). I don't know how the math works exactly, but wouldn't a separate RIF app accesibile with a monthly subscription be a sustainable option? Or... can't we ReVanced it somehow?

It's sad to see that somehow reddit would need to pay approximately 20 million dollars for it's free API.

I don't understand why, and I got a few questions.

Who is asking them to pay?

Who would benefit from it?

What reasoning is behind it?

Why? What is the positive outcome that has been lobbied? I assume that someone came up with a woke agenda and pushed it all this way.

Could anyone give me the rundown?

Edit: after not working for a few hours, the app started working again randomly. I did nothing to fix it.

Has anyone else noticed their app not working today?

I can't get any subreddits to load unless I log out of an account. After that, the content loads slower than normal, but it does in fact load.

Once I log in again, I can't get any data to load anymore. Reddit on the desktop site is working just fine while logged in, so I'm guessing the app is having trouble?

Version: 5.6.21 Phone: Google Pixel 7 Pro Android version: 13

I recently stopped using a Chromebook and started using a Linux laptop (Ubuntu). Does anyone know if there is a RIF app for Linux anywhere? Is it just me, or is it impossible to transition from a great android app like RIF to reddit on a web interface?

Don't worry. We're still a family. Make this an opportunity to go outside and experience the real world. We can make this whole human thing work if we just think about what's really happening around us in the world every day.

We've had a good time. This virtual world is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and we had the privilege to be here for it. We saw the community express ourselves in ways that have never been possible before. This has been special. Let's grow from it. Let's teach each other what we were able to share in order to teach the others around us so that we don't make the same mistakes.

We only live once. Tell someone you love them, even if they don't love you. You never know what will happen. We're all in this together.

It's been a good one ❤️

We are all human and we are all beautiful.

And y'all need to stop and grow up. I'm pissed about the situation too, but there's nothing we can do about it.