I literally watched RIF die while watching a movie at home with my family. I was hoping it would be good to midnight, eastern time, but recognized this was completely arbitrary. One minute the front page worked. I put my phone down and went back to it 20 minutes later maybe around 8:45pm Eastern - I could only get one screen-full of links, and when I tried to scroll, I got an error saying it couldn’t load anything else, and visiting other subreddits produced the same “no threads” message posted here. About 20 minutes after that, the front page was doing the same thing, and it was done.
RIF was great; I checked out reddit via mobile browser after it died, but the interface was just… not nearly as clean as RIF. No interest in using the app.
I remember leaving Digg.com for reddit in 2010. Reddit was an easy choice. It remains to be seen where we’ll all end up as there doesn’t seem to be anywhere as big and developed as reddit was, even back then. Lemmy and the fediverse might be good initially for topics with a broader draw of people, but for our niche interests it’ll be hard to kick reddit. Maybe for niche topics, things will look like pre-Digg internet, with more reliance on individual websites, individual forums, but with a healthy amount of discord added in.
I literally watched RIF die while watching a movie at home with my family. I was hoping it would be good to midnight, eastern time, but recognized this was completely arbitrary. One minute the front page worked. I put my phone down and went back to it 20 minutes later maybe around 8:45pm Eastern - I could only get one screen-full of links, and when I tried to scroll, I got an error saying it couldn’t load anything else, and visiting other subreddits produced the same “no threads” message posted here. About 20 minutes after that, the front page was doing the same thing, and it was done.
RIF was great; I checked out reddit via mobile browser after it died, but the interface was just… not nearly as clean as RIF. No interest in using the app.
I remember leaving Digg.com for reddit in 2010. Reddit was an easy choice. It remains to be seen where we’ll all end up as there doesn’t seem to be anywhere as big and developed as reddit was, even back then. Lemmy and the fediverse might be good initially for topics with a broader draw of people, but for our niche interests it’ll be hard to kick reddit. Maybe for niche topics, things will look like pre-Digg internet, with more reliance on individual websites, individual forums, but with a healthy amount of discord added in.
Reddit themselves cut off the apps early. Probably to prevent users from protesting and complaining.