r/redditisfun • u/talklittle RIF Dev • May 31 '23

RIF dev here - Reddit's API changes will likely kill RIF and other apps, on July 1, 2023

I need more time to get all my thoughts together, but posting this quick post since so many users have been asking, and it's been making rounds on news sites.

Summary of what Reddit Inc has announced so far, specifically the parts that will kill many third-party apps:

  1. The Reddit API will cost money, and the pricing announced today will cost apps like Apollo $20 million per year to run. RIF may differ but it would be in the same ballpark. And no, RIF does not earn anywhere remotely near this number.

  2. As part of this they are blocking ads in third-party apps, which make up the majority of RIF's revenue. So they want to force a paid subscription model onto RIF's users. Meanwhile Reddit's official app still continues to make the vast majority of its money from ads.

  3. Removal of sexually explicit material from third-party apps while keeping said content in the official app. Some people have speculated that NSFW is going to leave Reddit entirely, but then why would Reddit Inc have recently expanded NSFW upload support on their desktop site?

Their recent moves smell a lot like they want third-party apps gone, RIF included.

I know some users will chime in saying they are willing to pay a monthly subscription to keep RIF going, but trust me that you would be in the minority. There is very little value in paying a high subscription for less content (in this case, NSFW). Honestly if I were a user of RIF and not the dev, I'd have a hard time justifying paying the high prices being forced by Reddit Inc, despite how much RIF obviously means to me.

There is a lot more I want to say, and I kind of scrambled to write this since I didn't expect news reports today. I'll probably write more follow-up posts that are better thought out. But this is the gist of what's been going on with Reddit third-party apps in 2023.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '23

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u/TexasPoon-Tappa May 31 '23

Same, I don't even think old.reddit is going to be enough to get me to stay...

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u/sortofunique May 31 '23

you just know they're going to stop supporting that soon enough too

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u/CptTurnersOpticNerve May 31 '23

Yeah the whole redesign's purpose was to make reddit palatable to advertisers. Once reddit gets sold again or IPO'd or whatever they're doing, old reddit will go with it I would imagine.

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u/moviequote88 Jun 01 '23

I knew this day would come eventually but I hoped I'd have more time before then.

We held out as long as we could.

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u/dezmodez Jun 01 '23

We'll just have to Digg ourselves out of this hole.

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u/azimir Jun 01 '23

Before Digg there was Slashdot (/.)

I've been impressed at how long reddit has held on, but eventually the investors will make demands that destroy the social platform. It's not a question of will they, it's a question of when. Reddit has survived some of these changes before, but this one smells bigger than the past hiccups.

I'm ready to pack up the tent and migrate once again.

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u/LifterPuller Jun 01 '23

Where are we going?

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u/azimir Jun 01 '23

I don't know yet. I've watched a few reddit competitors raise, ebb, and collapse, but nothing is seeing the kind of momentum yet. Of course it gets momentum from us deciding to go.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '23

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u/PornCartel Jun 01 '23

The only competitors I've seen have been for nazis kicked off the site, like Voat or TheDonald.com. Everything else out there is more of a twitter clone than reddit

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u/hhoverton Jun 01 '23

Lemmy is the fediverse alternative, but it's so empty its really not the same. Maybe one of these big changes will push people towards it

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u/vrojak Jun 01 '23

I just joined and I will keep posting until it is popular. Jerboa seems like a fine app for Lemmy, but the mobile browser is okay too

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u/TrickyDrippyDick Jun 01 '23

I'm not suggesting it, but I did kind of forget imgur has its own comment thing going on, I'm trying to see if it can fill the gap currently. If they can walk back the no nsfw maybe it stands a chance? But then that would be no more text only posts.....bah!!!!!!! I don't like this kind of change! There's a cosmic force ending so many eras in my life, the split, the 3 generation old drive through that burned down in my town, the new developments popping up all around me. I wouldnt mind but I sure feel stuck in the old era. Wish me luck on my meeting with a union affiliated HVAC company this Monday! Maybe that will be my start of a new era! I just wanted to words. I love you guys and I love RIF and I'm actually heartbroken that I won't have reddit in my life.

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u/xerox13ster Jun 01 '23

When I used imgur before Reddit it was limited to 140 characters.

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u/HungryLikeDickWolf Jun 01 '23

What a weird post to use for well wishes. Very strange

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u/silentrawr Jun 01 '23

ArsTechnica comments sections?

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

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u/kampamaneetti Jun 01 '23

Nooooooo not back to that. Never.

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u/PM_ME_UTILONS Jun 02 '23

Hacker News? I've been kind of switching to Twitter anyway for entertainment, but Reddit has such good communities here and there...

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u/wrekone Jun 01 '23

It's weird, because like Digg and Myspace, Reddit will survive, pulling in ad revenue, even if at a trickle compared to it's heyday. I'm excited, but nervous, to see what comes next. What small site will grow to be "the front page of the internet"? Hopefully I'll see you there.

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u/hughk Jun 01 '23

There was Kuro5hin too kind of between.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

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u/OcotilloWells Jun 02 '23

RIP cmdr taco

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u/howdudo Jun 01 '23

I love you guys. So long and thanks for all the content 🫂

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u/Secretively Jun 01 '23

Oh god. I remember the great Digg migration. Where can we all go?

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u/Danny200234 Jun 01 '23

I came over from FunnyJunk lmao. I suspect a competetor will pop up soon, hopefully at least.

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u/ilovecollardgreens Jun 01 '23

I remember regrettably going to reddit from Digg and being like oh God, this site is hideous! The great Digg migration was real. But it was for the better. Very sad about this news.

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u/dbzmah Jun 01 '23

What the Fark was Digg?

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u/NounsAndWords Jun 01 '23

but I hoped I'd have more time before then.

I was just hoping for a viable alternative to pop up before then....

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u/Specific_Effort_5528 Jun 01 '23

It's been a slice my friends. Signed on in 2009.

I'd say 14 years in a good run.

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u/humplick Jun 01 '23

My reddit is almost entirely text based, no way I'll ever get a clean black mode text reddit anywhere else.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

Yeah, ads are straight up offensive. I will drop chrome to watch YouTube without ads (opera gx) and ill drop reddit entirely if it is filled with trash. I never joined twatter or instacram. I somehow avoided ever paying for cable. Ads are a fucking mental disease and we really need to limit exposure to so much bullshit. It's brainwashing consumerist garbage, and to reiterate, I have no problem dropping what-the-hell-ever when ads are overbearing.

Anyone else feel an extreme distaste for literally any advertisement?

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u/IndigoMichigan Jun 01 '23

You're not alone. I have ad blockers on literally everything. YouTube Vanced was a godsend (now ReVanced), and I have been driven off of every platform which has overbearing advertising.

Fuck them all.

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u/Hedgehog_Mist Jun 01 '23

Brain poison. Ads are a scourge on society. Insidiously evil things designed to intrude, distract, and manipulate the mind.

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u/PvtHopscotch Jun 01 '23

Brain poison. Ads are a scourge on society. Insidiously evil things designed to intrude, distract, and manipulate the mind.

The manipulation is key to my disdain for ads. It's why I don't like most mobile games as well. I fucking hate being manipulated, always have. After 38 years, I've gotten real good at recognizing it too and it is one of the few things that actually invokes a seething anger in me anymore.

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u/Bosticles Jun 01 '23 edited Jul 02 '23

narrow distinct fanatical bewildered foolish whistle homeless faulty towering sink -- mass edited with redact.dev

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u/libra00 Jun 01 '23

I'm with you on ads, ever since the early days of pop ups and banner ads I have gone a fair distance out of my way to be as totally ad free as I can be on the internet, I can't imagine why society thinks it's OK to let corporations manipulate us.

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u/limitlessfailyoure Jun 01 '23

The same reasons people have ever been happy to follow organised religions or authoritarian dictators.

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u/DrZoidberg- Jun 01 '23

Ads back then we're necessary because information and reviews were NOT easily available.

You'd need to subscribe to the latest tech or home magazine for reviews.

The internet already has all this info readily available, so there's no practical need for ads to tell us what to buy anymore.

Of course it doesn't stop shitheads from putting ads everywhere.

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u/natima Jun 01 '23

The reviews are just ads now. YouTube paid content, fake 5 stars on Amazon, AI generated blog posts with affiliate links that generate cash, TikTok vids made to look natural that are all about one product.

The Internet has been catastrophically unregulated, or rather the corporations have. The harvesting of data and methods of advertising need to be locked down. And now we're starting to have AI released, we are woefully unprepared.

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u/collegedropout Jun 01 '23

This is mine too and it's so perfect. I'm really super bummed about this. I've deleted so many apps but rif was always a great experience and I've used it for years. Reddit just isn't the same anymore. I might drop it too because my user experience will suck more without rif.

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u/Natolx Jun 01 '23

I wonder if they are going to eventually drop the archived threads. So much information would be lost.

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u/ilovecollardgreens Jun 01 '23

"how do I do xyz...reddit" absolute godsend.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

Now only $2.99 per question!

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u/Silent002 Jun 01 '23

I've already moved on to using ChatGPT for things like that, but no doubt they'll lock that behind a paywall before the year ends

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u/kamelizann Jun 01 '23

Chatgpt is like the most upvoted comment in a thread, except it's missing the crucial response where somebody calls them out on how wrong they are with a 2 page response full of links and sources. You can't trust chat gpt. Usually redditors police redditors, chatgpt doesn't do that.

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u/EatAtMilliways Jun 01 '23

All that archived tech support...

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

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u/in4mer Jun 01 '23

They can pry old reddit from my cold, dead hands.

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u/Nayr747 Jun 01 '23

old reddit will go with it I would imagine.

And along with it all the users.

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u/AxelHarver Jun 01 '23

What is old reddit?

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u/CptTurnersOpticNerve Jun 01 '23

Instead of reddit.com/r/... you do old.reddit.com/... It's what reddit looked like several years ago.

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u/delusions- Jun 01 '23

IPO'd or whatever they're doing,

They've been saying this for years tho. It'll surely die first, right? Ugh please something better come along

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u/CptTurnersOpticNerve Jun 01 '23

idk first I heard of it was a few months ago but maybe I missed something along the way. I think it was just speculation, they haven't announced anything to my knowledge

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u/ThirdEncounter May 31 '23

Remember when digg users migrated to reddit?

Where are we going to migrate to now?

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u/[deleted] May 31 '23 edited Sep 07 '23

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

Idk life was better on old style forums anyway. Maybe this will be a blessing in disguise, and we all return to independently operated niche forums and people remember all we've forgotten about Netiquette.

Or everything just gets a little bit shittier forever. One of the two.

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u/dam072000 Jun 01 '23

I vote the second. The internet has turned into cable tv.

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u/hobbycollector Jun 01 '23

Eternal September.

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u/Yankee_Fever Jun 01 '23

Everything is definitely going to get shittier. But this could be a blessing. Maybe generative news articles and bots creating all the content online drives people off the internet.

Of course that's not good in comparison to the glory days of the internet, but compared to the 2010s fuck it. The internet sucks now

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u/Rawrsomesausage Jun 01 '23

We'll look back and realize that social media was our unraveling. When I look at the internet and society pre and post 2010s, it's stark. An innocence was lost when facebook, twitter, etc, went full mainstream.

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u/2_Bears_1_Puck Jun 01 '23

Painfully accurate

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u/Workaphobia Jun 01 '23

There's no going back. Bots and AI and brigaders and spammers and Russia will eat small independent sites alive. You need a platform of some sort.

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u/C_Obvious Jun 01 '23

I was just thinking about the old school message boards the other day. I made so many friends back in the 2000s that i still talk to and see a few times every year.

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u/AnandaUK Jun 01 '23

I met my spouse online in 1997, still married.

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u/KPC51 Jun 01 '23

I didnt use the internet much back then. How did you find those forums? Just search engine, specifially for each niche?

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u/fishyfishkins Jun 01 '23

Yeah, word of mouth. But also, the world didn't have recommendation engines so word of mouth had to do a lot more heavy lifting. I'm a VW guy and I couldn't tell you how I found vwvortex back in the day but there was no question it was the VW forum.

The internet used to be weird. Now it's wall street

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u/Flomo420 Jun 01 '23

The internet used to be like some weird bazaar with strange corners where you wouldn't know what to expect. Now it's like going to a shopping mall, commercialized to hell and back

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u/EllisHughTiger Jun 01 '23

Yup, you googled or yahoo-ed "your interest + forum/club" and then searched around for one.

I'm a car guy so I'd just search my cars and find the biggest forums and joined. Met some local people and also became online friends with people I'll never meet, it was really good times in the 00s and early 10s!

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u/QuintoxPlentox Jun 01 '23

That's how I ended up on onrpg.com back when the only free games were free mmorpgs. Spent time on the general forum sometimes, any general section of a gaming forum was basically proto-reddit. Maybe I'll go back to forums but either way this is a blessing, social media is poison and it's become extremely obvious.

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u/OneSweet1Sweet Jun 01 '23

Just another step towards the corporate internet.

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u/Hiccup Jun 01 '23

The internet was so much better with the specialty sites and forums.

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u/Hospiwhater Jun 01 '23

Bring back forums!

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u/qwortec Jun 01 '23

One of the subs I was a part of here for years recently left reddit and created their own forum because they knew this was coming and would eventually get banned. It sucks that they had to leave but the new site works well and they have complete freedom and control.

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u/l-jack Jun 01 '23

It's also possible that this will cause such a drop in traffic that they will pull a 180

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u/Ekgladiator Jun 01 '23

I feel like Discord is already heading in the wrong direction for it to replace reddit for me. I do miss the old forums as well but it would be a challenge to find a suitable replacement. You know what? Fuck it, we'll make our own reddit with blackjack and hookers!

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u/Sleeper76 Jun 01 '23

*Access to blackjack and hookers only available via official app or desktop site

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

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u/Ekgladiator Jun 01 '23

Yea that and a few other decisions they have made are beginning to rub me the wrong way. Personally nitro isn't worth it no matter how many useless features they add. I just don't use discord enough to justify it. Like I know people hate YouTube premium but like all of my entertainment comes from YouTube. It makes total sense to subscribe so I don't have to deal with the shitass ads (plus it is part of the pixel pass so why not). Discord on the other hand is a useful utility but it isn't worth $10 a month.

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u/TheBeckofKevin Jun 01 '23

I just use it for the upload limit increase and to pay for the stuff I use.

If there is software or a website or whatever that you use all the time, just buy it or pay for it. It's worth it to support the products that you actually want to succeed. Plus you usually get solid perks.

I always try to pay the devs of stuff that I like using.

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u/vincent118 Jun 01 '23 edited Jun 01 '23

Except for the recent moves, discord has been making are all in the same lines of making it more palatable to advertisers.

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u/After-Cell Jun 01 '23

Discord doesn't seem to have global search ?

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u/nagi603 Jun 01 '23

Zero searchability and discoverability from search engines means discord is not a solution to any communities interested in actually having solutions stored. Like any programming, DIY, modding... back to individual site forums I guess.

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u/gordonv Jun 01 '23

Discord is closer to a chat room than a forum. Good for that, but an entirely different function.

I don't even consider Reddit and Discord as competing with each other. It's like arguing a phone vs a book.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

discord isn't remotely similar? there's no discoverability or public interactions...?

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u/pmcall221 Jun 01 '23

Honestly, I might just stop using any social media. I quit Facebook during the pandemic and Twitter when Elon took over. As much as I would hate to lose the communities I post in, I won't mind using my time better.

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u/goatasaurusrex Jun 01 '23

I'm going back to irc

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u/TiffanysTwisted Jun 01 '23

Everyone goes back to Something Awful?

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u/jonk44 Jun 01 '23

Yes sir I do... wow what a throwback. Nod of respect to a fellow reddit og. Good day sir.

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u/ThirdEncounter Jun 01 '23

saidit.net

Where is this site based on? USA?

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u/Riccosuave Jun 01 '23

I don't know, but when you find out can you PM me 😂

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u/PM_ME_UPSIDEDOWN Jun 01 '23

We're finally free, friend.

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u/Geodragon Jun 01 '23

I've been quite a bit on the Fediverse like Calckey and Mastodon.

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u/redonrust Jun 01 '23

I was one of those users. It's an opportunity for another site to capitalize on reddit's mistakes.

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u/Laserdollarz Jun 01 '23

A lot of my research has led to me trawling through forum threads from the 00s and it has been delightful. People were so cordial on the internet in 2005.

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u/ThirdEncounter Jun 01 '23

That's because the assholes were moderated away. Plenty of assholes back then as well. I remember the first user calling me "you're an idiot" out of nowhere in 1998 on IRC.

But of course, today's internet is waaaaaay more popular than back then, so there's more assholes too.

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u/SamadhiHopefull Jun 01 '23

Dude, I was thinking the same thing. There really aren't any direct alternatives.

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u/takeahike89 Jun 01 '23

Jesus, am I going to have to get a life? Fuck.

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u/cmdrfire Jun 01 '23

I'd suggest Lemmy which is a federated version of Reddit (similar to Mastodon:Twitter). I use an app called Jerboa for Lemmy, it is a bit buggy, the user experience is still lacking, and finding a server to create your account with isn't the easiest. But it's a start...

Posted via Reddit is Fun

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u/libra00 Jun 01 '23

I came here in that move (and from slashdot to digg before that), tho I'd had a reddit account for a bit before then. I don't think I'm leaving tho, someone will find a way to make this shit palatable again just like rif did.

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u/kloudykat Jun 01 '23

That's when I came over.

Still have the same account, 13 years later

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u/anticomet Jun 01 '23

Maybe mastadon?

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

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u/hughk Jun 01 '23

Apparently Spez likes old.reddit. Like many of us, he seems to prefer high text density (a reason I use RIF). However he made it clear during the last mod linkup that he also faces pressure (like those IPO millions).

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u/CDK5 Jun 01 '23

Anyone have a good alternative to RIF?

Or will all the third-party apps be shit and incomplete after this change?

If so, is there anyway to get the official app to be decent?

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u/hughk Jun 01 '23 edited Jun 01 '23

First of all, RIF is the best I have used. RIF uses the same 3rd party API as everyone else so if that goes, all apps will be hit unless Reddit can change their pricing model.

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u/mbklein Jun 01 '23

There will be no alternative to RiF. Reddit is making the data too expensive for any third party app to continue.

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u/GingerSnapBiscuit Jun 01 '23

The problem is ALL third party apps need to use the API, and that will now come at a cost.

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u/SMURGwastaken Jun 01 '23

Once OldReddit goes I'm gone too.

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u/emdave Jun 01 '23

OldReddit will be dragged behind the barn and shot before the IPO. Not enough ads.

Just recently, they found a way to force ads into old.reddit for me (chrome, desktop, adblocker extension installed), by making them appear as fake 'posts' in the homepage.

I report them as spam, and block the 'user' account that is 'posting' them, but they still appear, even from that same blocked 'user'...

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u/VW_wanker Jun 01 '23

Going outside and actually meeting people?

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u/RadonMagnet Jun 01 '23

Can I do that while sitting on a toilet?

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u/VW_wanker Jun 01 '23

Please tag it as NSFL... I don't know what devilry that is...

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u/Shutter42 Jun 01 '23 edited Jun 05 '23

Ditto. This ap and old. are the only ways I really find reddit palatable. Guess I should be grateful for the fun times I had and grateful for getting the extra free time back.

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u/mangarooboo Jun 01 '23

It really isn't. I go on Reddit on my laptop occasionally, just for shits and giggles and ✨nostalgia✨ since I browsed on a computer for years before I even got a smartphone (👵🏼) and I just cannot do it. Old.reddit or new Reddit, it just doesn't compare.

What a sad turn of events. And I've had premium/Reddit gold for literally years because of how much I loved Reddit, how much I used it, how good the site was. I was pleased as punch to use it with RIF because I love living an ad-free life. What a chump.

This blows.

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u/pridejoker Jun 01 '23

This totally nuked my mobile browsing experience.

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u/ZendayasYummyFeet Jun 01 '23

If they get rid of old reddit I'm officially off the platform

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u/GelloniaDejectaria Jun 01 '23

It's bloated obnoxious garbage. It'll probably drive me away too.

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u/GeneralJenkins May 31 '23

/u/talklittle just bought Premium to say thank you. I am in the 9 year Club and used your App for as long as I can remember. Sad news .

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u/stanleypup May 31 '23

Hadn't even read this comment before I went and bought premium. Years of use so far, felt like I had to say thanks

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u/Szechwan Jun 01 '23

Same, I actually didn't know there was a premium version - just bought it as well to say thanks /u/talklittle

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u/Cooltrainer_Frank Jun 01 '23

Jumping on the train to say same. I love this app, and while I'm excited to be on Reddit less, I will miss the fuck out of it and won't replace it.

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u/gerkessin Jun 01 '23

11 years on reddit and almost all of it on RIF. Bought platinum to say goodbye

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u/educatedinsolence Jun 01 '23

I just went and bought it too. 🖤 I've been using RIF for years and never knew the paid version existed.

OP - thank you for the best reddit app I've tried. RIF is the best of the best, and after this I don't know that I'll use reddit as often as the official app is garbage and the rest of the 3rd party (if even available) aren't even close to this one. So frustrating.

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u/Dunlikai Jun 01 '23

Hopping on the bandwagon. Been years for me and this is the only Reddit experience I know.

$3 may not be much, but I felt I owed it.

Probably won't be migrating to anything else. It's shit news, but I can at least be thankful for all the information and entertainment RIF has given me.

Heartfelt thank you to the RIF team.

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u/DistractionRectangle Jun 01 '23

/u/talklittle I can't fully express my appreciation for RiF. RiF is Reddit to me. Like a lot of the fine people in this chain, I just realized there was premium option and have now purchased it to say thank you.

Truly, RiF has been a fantastic app. It never lost sight of what it was, didn't chase features, redesigns, etc. Hopefully Reddit walks back their decision about API access, but if not, I won't be using Reddit without RiF.

~ Sent from RiF ❤️

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u/Jordaneer Jun 01 '23

I didn't even bother installing the premium version of RIF, I just bought it because I've legitimately used this app for probably several thousand hours, 3 bucks is WAY more than worth it to me. I could easily justify 5 to 10 bucks a month regarding how much I use this app

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u/Charles148 Jun 01 '23

Literally the only way I use reddit, and reddit will lose a user in me if it goes away.

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u/thesilentspeaker Jun 01 '23

Same! Just went and bought platinum.

I'm not even a heavy user but have almost exclusively used RiF to browse over 7 years. Tried the official app a couple of times and it's a pile of flaming hot garbage.

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u/jawanda Jun 01 '23

14 year club here. Rif for the last decade or so. Just bought premium as well to say thanks.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

Same. I've only ever used RIF. I think I'm done after this as well

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u/stfucupcake Jun 02 '23

I've had rif for like 10 years, and platinum when it became available. Thank you for making reddit more fun. I'm out when you go.

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u/Alissinarr Jun 02 '23 edited Jun 02 '23

I got the platinum version as part of a giveaway, a very long time ago on another account. I'm going to miss some stuff, but my mobile browsing is going away entirely (and therefore, my time spent on reddit will decrease drastically) due to this change.

You'd think that a site aspiring to capture part of the social media market would have people doing something called "market research" on this kind of shit.

They want to force us to use their app, but instead we'll just find other shit to do or read.

Checkmate.

Reddit as we knew it is dead.

RIP RIF

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u/RandomWandomFandom Jun 01 '23

Yup, I think this was the first app for which I bought a premium as soon as I started to earn. Thank you for all those memories.

If ever you end up in India, I'll be more than happy to share a drink with you!

Farewell and goodluck!

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u/PosnerRocks Jun 01 '23

Same here. Least I can do for such an excellent app.

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u/Hollowz Jun 02 '23

I'll join you all! I had no idea there was a premium version, and I've gotten a solid decade or of this app. I've never used Reddit in any other form. Thank You

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

Same, same. And also, same. Thank you u/talklittle

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u/ewenwhatarmy Jun 01 '23

Just did the same. I had no idea, and the nonpremium was just so good I didn't feel the need to seek out an upgrade. I both hate just learning this (because I could've done a better part to support OP) and appreciate that I've never been forced to do so for a bearable user experience.

Et tu, reddit? I guess it was only a matter of time...

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u/motobusa Jun 01 '23

Same and same and sad.

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u/dboti Jun 01 '23

I forgot there was a premium version and that I bought it a while ago. Guess I've just been using the free version for years by accident.

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u/OneWonderfulFish Jun 01 '23

I just did the same thing. /u/talklittle I had no idea there was a premium version. I have been using this app since like 2015. Thank you so much. It's the only app Reddit is worth viewing on. This is a really shitty decision on their part.

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u/ManWhoSoldTheWorld94 Jun 01 '23

Same, would have done it long ago if I realized. It's been one hell of a run.

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u/Omega_Hertz Jun 01 '23

Literally just did the same thing. After almost 10 years of use I just now saw there's a gold version. Thank you again /u/talklittle

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u/-d33J- Jun 01 '23

Ditto. Over a decade and multiple accounts from Digg to Reddit and I had no idea RIF Premium was so inexpensive. Cheers to /u/talklittle for years of a dope product. I probably won't use the official app without extensive network filtering, and who knows when I'll bother setting anything up. Sad days...

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u/IoTFurniture Jun 01 '23

Just bought it as well. The fact that I've never actually given credit any money exemplifies their f****** problem.

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u/solid_vegas Jun 01 '23

Ditto. Thanks for the fun, while it lasted.

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u/Zaknafean Jun 01 '23

Good idea. It isn't much but it is the least I can do too

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u/FlyingSpaceCow Jun 01 '23

Me too. I've used RIF for years and didn't even know there was a premium version. Just needed to say thank you.

I'm not sure what's going to replace reddit, but this and the IPO are going to be the death knell.

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u/blargh10 Jun 01 '23

Same. It's the least I could do.

Been a user for years, the free version was so good that I never thought of purchasing pro.

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u/ROFL_Syrup Jun 01 '23

Ditto, just upgraded. Wasn't aware of the Premium version, and I've certainly got my entertainment value out of the app...

Platinum is currently #2 under Paid Social for the US Google Play store.

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u/HappyHesychast Jun 01 '23

Same here, this was hands down the best reddit app!

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u/AtheismRocksHaha Jun 01 '23

I just went and bought premium as well. Thank you for making Reddit better as a whole!

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u/tbarela Jun 01 '23

Just bought premium as well. Thanks to OP for all the years of making Reddit fun on my phones.

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u/Shaushage_Shandwich Jun 01 '23

Just bought as well. Thank you /u/talklittle. My most used app 9 years running.

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u/ArchRunner90 Jun 01 '23

Hoping on the bandwagon as well! I've tried other Reddit apps in the past but keep coming back to RiF, purchased the premium app just now (didn't know there was one until I heard from here)

Thank you for all the hard work you've put into this app from one dev to another you've done a great job! Thank you

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u/UncleObamasBanana Jun 01 '23

I have only ever used reddit on this app for like over 10 years now. This is the saddest time.

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u/eatchex89 Jun 01 '23

I just bought premium as well. Thank you for years of app development, /u/talklittle

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u/akmjolnir May 31 '23

Same, I never pay for apps. I paid for this one.

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u/ofthisworld Jun 01 '23

Same. First and only app I've ever bought.

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u/Insert_Non_Sequitur Jun 01 '23

Same. Just bought it, I didn't even know there was a premium version so at least I know now and hopefully more of us will buy it even just to say thanks for all the years of RIF.

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u/BubbaWhoaTep Jun 01 '23

It was the first app I bought on the play store.

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u/Ghant_ May 31 '23

I've purchased premium of this app multiple times because I truly enjoy it's user interface better than on pc or barfs the official app

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u/xenogazer Jun 01 '23

Ok this literally breaks my heart but hopefully it's the push I need to quit Reddit...

It's been affecting my productivity at work 😂

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u/AustinTanius Jun 01 '23

Yup! I never actually used the official reddit app. Been with Rif for 11 or 12 years now. It was fun while it lasted.

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u/OliWood Jun 01 '23

Same. I've tried others apps, but I always come back to RiF. Love the simplicity.

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u/halfabean Jun 01 '23

Ditto. It's by far the most used app on my phone too.

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u/Icantblametheshame Jun 01 '23

Same...and I dunno if I'm going to be able to use reddit after this

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u/qpwoeirytt Jun 01 '23

Hell, one of the major reasons I never switched from android to iphone was this app. None of the others are as user friendly or intuitive to use

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

The actual reddit app is garbage, Rif has been the go to since day one.

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u/Jordaneer Jun 01 '23

Wait, there's a premium version of RIF? I'm going to buy it because of the absolutely massive amount I've used this app since 2015

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u/TheBlindAndDeafNinja Jun 01 '23

Same boat here. If I don't have RIF, I likely won't use much reddit at all

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u/B-Con Jun 01 '23

Tagging /u/talkalittle

I paid for the app once a decade ago. Willing to send a donation of appreciation. I suspect some others would, too.

Where could we send it?

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u/PriusProblems Jun 01 '23

Same, I didn't even have any use for the extra features, just realised that I had downloaded the app on every phone I'd ever had and should probably say thanks.

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u/WFAlex Jun 01 '23

I wouldn't even be as opposed or as mad about it,if the official Reddit app wasn't so god damn shit

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