Once the RIF app shuts down tomorrow I will probably be done using reddit on my phone forever.
It's so bittersweet to lose such a huge part of the content I consume online, but I'm hoping to replace that mindless scrolling on reddit with mindless scrolling over here on tumblr.
I hope everyone who loses their reddit apps tomorrow is able to find a new space that makes them happy.
The "AMA" this morning (which actually was held in r/Reddit??) was nothing but a corporate disaster. Steve Huffman, aka /spɛz/ just really told an entire community of communities that he was quite happy ignoring their very reasonable concerns and gaslit us with the confidence and ease of a real life super villain. He diminished, lied to us and about us, and made the Digg exodus look like child's play. I had 3 accounts this morning and as of now, none of them exist any longer.
HAPPY 128TH BIRTHDAY TO GRAND DUCHESS OLGA NIKOLAEVNA ROMANOVA OF RUSSIA!! 🧡🤍
Dear Olishka,
I WISH YOU A HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY!!! Hope you are in a better place now. I believe you are somewhere where your pure heart no longer experiences pain. We will meet someday; if it's God's will. You're forever in our hearts (you and Pavel 🤭). Here is an cute edit I made dedicated using CapCut to the first love of yours, S. (as you mentioned him in your diaries) 🤎 Send my greetings to everyone up there ;) (Anastasia we talked about it!!!)
Bro it's crippling trying to share anything on mobile via reddit or tumblr.
RiF just had a download button fully in view, or hust let you long press to download.
Fuckin' reddit randomly decides whether I can download something, and when I do, I have to xlick the share button first??? Not long press or press download??? Then I press download and it's a solid 50/50 whether it downloads. And after that, it idiotically decides to show me a popup saying "download complete! :)" that blocks the fucking video bar making it so I cannot skip ahead.
And tumblr. My god do you ever cease failing? How do you fucking share? Oh I see, 2 options that just copy a fuckin' link, one directly the image the other the post, had to figure that one out, and just downloading.
RiF you just pressed share and it shared the photo or video. Never needed to download shit to send to someone before. Just send a link if it's a video and it auto goes to it, or sens the picture itself directly, not a link, and I didn't have to download.
For social fucking media both of these company's mobile app is worse than the free reddit app. Bar none, companies are dogshit and produce nothing.
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.
You can still access 196 from RIF if you had already joined that subreddit. I’m working on doing this for all subreddits and I should have it done by tonight.
REDDIT DATA WILL BE SAVED!!!!
For the past week I have been hacking reddit so that I could download EVERYTHING off of these subreddits and save it so no internet history is lost. This is several terabytes of data i plan on downloading and I have no idea what i’ll do with it once i’m done, but it will all be saved when I am done. The reason I only release this post now is because I already have most, if not all, of the data downloaded. I’m just unprivating the subs on APIs so you can go give them money. And that is what you should do, uninstall the reddit app, and download all of the APIs so they can make money that reddit doesn’t make.