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Came here because RIF shut down and I can’t believe how bad the regular reddit app is. Here’s hoping that Lemmy is the new reddit!
for our writing, we discovered no character limit (or one that counts properly…) and have started to move our content here. Even if it’s just a side or secondary site, it seems to work great.
I did the exact same thing just today. Here’s hoping! I can see there’s growing pains, but that just means there’s growing to be done.
Me three. First comment on Lemmy!
Me four same deal, first comment here!
Same here. Tried the official reddit app and its bad. Even tweaking with the settings, the lack of many features is noticeable.
I’ve tried using the official app for some of my favourite subreddits and it’s awful. A cluttered mess that’s difficult to navigate, the complete opposite of rif… Just gave up after a while. This place is looking promising though and I’m happy to see so many familiar communities already.
You downloaded the official app ?! Traitor !.
Using that app is punishment enough.
Yeah, I used Reddit exclusively through RIF. It was perfect for what I wanted out of the site.
A sad day. But now I’m here via Jerboa and like it a lot so far.
I found the Connect app is more similar to RiF, just fyi
Yeah, I used Reddit exclusively through RIF. It was perfect for what I wanted out of the site.
A sad day. But now I’m here via Jerboa and like it a lot so far.
LEMMY IS FUN … PLEASE. I will pay.
Thought the same thing. How about 3rd party reddit apps use lemmy’s API instead?
Hell, even a reddit api wrapper for the lemmy api.
I’m curious if it’s really that easy. It needs more front end functionality to account for the different instances and the way lemmy works.
they can’t just replace the API, it is a different website, different features etc.
For now, Voyager is quite good.
Please add kbin too!
I will pay, again.
Please please please LIF.
Lol same, I’d gladly pay for this. RIF was the best app that I’d used, and I will dearly miss it.
RestInPeace in Peace
RIF is why I’m here, I deleted it from my front page, realized I hated going to the reddit website, and looked for something better.
I know he’s working on something different, for a different site, but I also hope he’s considering a LIF or something like that.
Try Connect for Lemmy, it’s the app closest to RIF I’ve found so far.
I’ll try it, thank you for the recommendation!
What site post Reddit is he tying into?
Tildes
I’m confused, the farewell message told us all to come here?
Is this part of the Fediverse?
RIF made Reddit tolerable as the site declined in recent years. I might go back for the live NFL game threads but hopefully Lemmy gets some good sport communities by then. The Connect app has been decent so far but RIF was near perfect in it’s simplicity - I hope other app developers take note.
I feel ya, hopefully a good NFL and hockey community starts up over the summer.
Came here because of the goodbye note from rif. Reddit is rif for me. The original app is just too bulky and annoying.
It’s still not the same experience so I’ve been trying out apps for lemmy. Connect is the closest one I think.
Rest in peace in peace
Rest in fun RIF
Now do “RIF is fun for reddit” and you’ll get the joke.
LIF when? 🥹
LEMMY IS FUN!!!
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Doesn’t seem like it will happen soon 😕
Throwing in my appreciation for the best damn Reddit app there ever was.
RIF is Fun was amazing. So well designed and everything just worked.
RIF should be a case study in UX/UI design: it’s user satisfaction (and really addiction) were a direct result to the ease of use of the interface and the speed with which you could consume content.
I fucking miss RIF already, and it’s not been 24 hours yet. When’s the last time you felt this way about an app?
I just woke up, opened the app out of habit, saw a 429 error, and uninstalled. There’s an empty spot on my home screen now that I’ll fill with LiftOff after a mourning period
Granted I used Sync and not RiF (though I initially used RiF from like 2013-2015), but it looks so weird seeing the green Liftoff logo on my home screen, which has been largely unchanged for the past 8 years since I started using Sync.
Jerboa with some minor tweaks in settings (list mode, amoled etc.) looks just like RIF for me. However the comments section is not accurate, but still does a pretty good job. Try it out.
Both Sync & RiF have patches available from the ReVanced team, they’ve taken the API keys from the official Reddit app and you can then inject them into Sync/RiF using:
Can you expand on this please, what is it, and what does it do?
Revanced is a tool some people made to patch apps. It was built to be a successor to vanced which was when basically they distributed modded adfree YouTube APKs. Google sent them a cease and desist, so they built a tool to mod apps yourself.
You likely know but maybe others will see this. Sync for Lemmy is now available.
LiftOff? Eli5
It’s a Lemmy app that I like. The standard web app version of Lemmy feels cluncky to me, and I like the presentation of LiftOff
One of the new Android apps, Jerboa & Liftoff are open source available on F-Droid. I’m using Connect for Lemmy available on the playstore and Boost will be available soon as well as a myriad of other apps
Been using RIF since around 2011. I hope that Lemmy or Tildes takes off.
I will miss RIF, and I cannot browse reddit without it. I am, however, looking foward to further interacting with the fediverse. I am just trying to remain respectful of places that other people created and established. Reddit was fun, but it was a mess (fake posts for karma, rage bait posts, harassment over the slightest little thing, people who couldn’t and wouldn’t intelligently articulate their view, etc). I’m hoping to not bring that here.
Rip in peace rif is fun :(
Is there a chance that the dev can rewrite rif for lemmy? I love rif, my favorite app. I’m not using some Lemmy app and Im not loving it
I tried Jerboa, Liftoff and Connect Connect is the best one so far. I’m inclined to try Boost and Sync, those are repurposed reddit apps, but Connect is pretty decent.
Yeah, I tried Jerboa and wasn’t a fan. Very buggy. Now on Connect and it feels like the UI of RIF. But it will take me a while to get used to this new world.
I think it’s just that the whole Lemmy thing is a lot more disjointed. Like, I can’t see a nice list of subs, or even necessarily search for them. I have to know they exist and then search for them using their exact address. Quite cumbersome.
I understand the want for the whole federated thing but may have a central point where federation submit to have theirs catalogued? I dunno. Its making this whole thing very cumbersome and I’m not entirely sold on it yet.
if you are using connect, you get Auto completion when you start typing in the community(?) search field. also there’s this https://browse.feddit.de/
I also think connect is closest, although there’s functionality I’m really missing right now, like being able to save posts, hide posts, and sort comment sections by new/best/controversial.
Also, idk if it’s a bug, but a lot of the posts I look at don’t show as read after clicking them.
RIF was what Reddit looked like to me. Used it for over a decade. I paid for it once and it was ad free always after that. Good bye old friend
The best $2.99 I spent on an app. My only regret is the author didn’t fleece me for more. I would have gladly paid the $2.99 yearly.
Me too
