Text of the webpage:

RIF going away song for June 2023:

Jay Park - Yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATuP6CE0vxM

A message

Thank you everyone for your support since 2009.

Thank you to /u/anon_smithsonian in particular for taking care of everyone on /r/redditisfun.

RIF, you’re quirky and rough around the edges, but you’ve always gotten the job done. You know how to get out of the way and show people the articles, discussions, pictures, and videos they came for.

You have the silliest name, but we love you all the more for it. RIF will always be fun in our hearts.

RIF has been so much of my life.

I’m honored that so many of you have felt the same way.

Thank you for sharing this journey with me. It’s been fun.

  • incachu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Just to let you know how ingrained RIF was in my routine…

    I just woke up, grabbed my phone, unlocked it and tapped “RIF is Fun golden platinum”. Your app was the first thing I opened on my phone every morning.

    Your app was the perfect way to digest Reddit without the noise. My experience of a neatly curated internet on mobile is gone.

    Unlike a lot of people here, I admittedly will probably continue to use old.reddit on desktop (with certain browser extensions of course), to get me to the closest thing to what rif golden platinum was. But my Reddit usage will definitely plummet, as I refuse to use that disorganised, pro-advertiser-anti-user mess which is the official app/new Reddit.

    Thank you TalkLittle for navigating us through the noise for all these years and getting us to the news and content that mattered to each one of us.

  • brainschaden@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Thats really sad. I started using the app about 13 years ago, in a time where I had very little frends and thought a girlfriend was never an option. Now 13 years later im going to marry in july and have all my friends around me. So thanks Reddit is fun for filling a hole I had all these years ago.

  • Tuvalu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Reddit Is Fun was how I started using Reddit before there was an official Reddit app. For nearly a decade I have used RIF almost every day of my life, and I will miss it dearly. Thank you for all the good memories. This thank you message will be my first comment on lemmy, and I truly hope this community will thrive.

  • pambuk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Thank you @talklittle for all your work, as many others said here, RIF was probably the most used app I had and it was my main tool used for Reddit. All the best man.

  • Stantron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    RiF was BY FAR my most used app for 10+ years. RiF was Reddit for me… And now Reddit is dead.

    Thanks for bringing me 10 good years. You changed my life in so many ways. I’m sad but hopefully after this turmoil we can find a bright future together.

  • IceHazard@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    It was the best of times. I remember downloading rif for the first time, so many years ago now. I never looked back. I really appreciated how simple and minimal it was. Well done, and keep us updated as to whatever you’re working on.