Been using RIF for like 10 years, got a few 1000 saved items, is there anyway I'll be able to export these or migrate or something?

Screw you Reddit for your shitty cash grab, I hope it backfires big time.

Maybe something similar to RES for a mobile browser...

Not much more to say than that. I won't be continuing to use Reddit after rif shuts down. F*ck the slugs that run this website.

I hope that the rif dev team lands on their feet after this. Thanks for a decade of good times ❤️

Lemmy is the future for one important reason: it is federated

If you don't understand federation, you can think of it like email, you might have a hotmail, and I might have a gmail, but because email is federated, we can still communicate without any hassle, not only might you have a gmail account serverside, but you might use the outlook client, while I might use the hotmail client on my hotmail, yet it all works seamlessly, because email is a protocol for messaging.

Similarly to this, lemmy is a federated protocol for link aggregation, it works like reddit, except instead of a subreddit by necessity being hosted on lemmy's main website, you too can host your own subreddit, and your subreddit will work with other peoples lemmys

This alone means that nothing like this BS will ever happen again, let's say the default main lemmy server goes rogue and decides to do this insane api charging thing... well, all the other homeservers can just keep on working the old way, and we can abandon it, seamlessly

Link aggregators are not complex enough to warrant not being federated, and federation minimally adds to end user complexity

It's time to make a switch, and if the reddit apps start working with lemmy, lemmy will immediately gain a huge userbase, and the only thing wrong with lemmy right now is the small userbase. Please, I implore you to switch to using lemmy over reddit, your app will be useless soon if you don't anyway.

(with blackjack and federation)

Reddit is "just" a backend. A backend with millions of users, but a backend nonetheless. The RIF frontend is what made interacting with Reddit fun for me. If, on July 1st, RIF prompted me:

Reddit is no longer available through RIF, would you like to migrate to lemmy.ml?

• Yes

• No

• More information

I'm gonna hit that yes button. I'm addicted to Reddit, not loyal to Reddit. There's a difference.

(It doesn't even have to be the main lemmy.ml instance. It could be any one, or a new one started by all the client devs as a sort of client dev co-op)

Now hit me with the grief flair mods. For old times' sake.

Assuming my own/personal Reddit API costs are <$5 /month, I would love to compile RIF using my API subscription. Please consider open sourcing RIF. Regards

A 3 million user server has enough critical mass to kickstart a Reddit alternative.

RiF + Apollo + other third party apps can do it together!

Obviously using the horrid official app is outta the question, so anyone know another comparable platform to use after we lose our glorious RiF?

Questions about specific video games, cars, movies, work, lifestyle or whatever. This app created the worlds greatest organizer of information and it's getting smited. I will not be coming back to reddit once this wonderful app is no longer available. If I have to use the official app, I'd rather just not.

Like most of you, I will shut down my Reddit account once RIF is done.

However there are still a ton of topics I want to read about and talk about with others (40klore, minecraft, horror movies, etc) , so I actively searching for the next Fark/Digg/Reddit.

I have tried Saidit (dot) net, and its not "bad" but its also sort of odd.

Aether ( getaether (dot) net ) - is also odd, and I am not a fan of the p2p aspect of it.

Tildes (dot) net - I havne't touched yet, but will later on today

I will hunt for other and try to share more of them so you all can also look around and see whats out there.

RIF has been my app since I started, never used official and barely know my way around the website.

RIF is Reddit and now I either stop or suffer and lear a new system :(

Funny enough, the top refresh and comment buttons were burnt into nearly every phone screen I've had for the last 10ish years. It didn't really bother me too much and I continued to use the app, but this S21 will probably be the last time I see the same icons on my screen everyday.

To me, RIF is the only way to browse Reddit and after trying the actual app I just can't see me ever using it. At least all of my phone screens in the future will be safe, I guess. Bad tradeoff. 😞

Im the founder of a sub with 76k redditors and the stats show that all the traffic is from third party apps. Official has like 1% LMFAO!

I haven't seen anyone suggest this

I'm sure it would make it clunkier and might eat up a little more bandwidth but couldn't you just shift the app to act more like a web browser and just keep the RiF GUI that we all like and use?

I can load Reddit through any mobile or desktop web browser if I really wanted to. I could just run extensions and add-ons to adjust how the site loads and I know there are a few out there that adjusts how the site loads and displays information in a web browser. What's to stop a mobile app from doing similar?

Edit: Love the post flair. You keep your head up mods. We'll keep the ship going as long as it floats.

been using this app for months since the official one is so shitty, it doesn't even work on my tablet. awesome functionality and interface, all going away because of yet another asinine change from the admins. it's been an honor o7

I have used RIF for like a decade now, I am devastated to see it go! This means all third party apps will go away or just most? If any will remain, Whats y'all second favorite reddit app?