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this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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Reddit Was Fun
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Memorial to "rif is fun for Reddit" Android app, aka "reddit is fun", shut down after June 30, 2023
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I can definitely browsee reddit with rif while logged out. Can't imagine what this accomplishes for reddit.
Maybe they can still say " oh hey look our traffic/requests are high"? They lost some valuation late last week so they might be looking for any way to indicate that the number of people/ access requests aren't dropping.
Read only use is hardly good though, that's just coating them money. You want engagement from users to drive ads.
Yeah, noticed the same thing. Strange.
The argument was that API requests cost them money so we may as well hurt them financially a bit by continuing to browse on RiF. Spez can't do anything right ๐
Not a good sign if we literally can't tell if this is a galaxy brain strategy or a technical failure.
personal guess is that they're trying to continue to tempt people over to the official app. given that rif has a lot of power users, they're probably hoping that they'll give in when they want to interact with content
or idk could just be a total bug