From the site:

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.

(This space will be updated on July 1.)

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    100% agree. It was the only way I viewed Reddit for 11 years.

    The day that pop-up appeared saying it was shutting down I set all the (small) subs I moderated to private, deleted my account, and came on over here. What a fucking shame.

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      Yes, I’m sure Apollo was great, but I never even knew it existed until this whole fiasco, because I jumped to RIF when it was still “Reddit Is Fun” and never looked back, because it did everything I needed, perfectly.

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        Word. As an Android user, Apollo wasn’t on my radar. Christian certainly made a name for himself throughout all of this - he was a phenomenal David against Reddit’s Goliath, but I RiF was the backbone of my Reddit experience and will be dearly missed. Excited to see what apps for kbin rise from the ashes of Reddit.

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        I’ve used both RIF (10-15 years ago) and Apollo (last 8 years or so). They are and were light years ahead of the official app. At this point I’m just like, “OK, bye bitch” with Reddit.

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        I used RIF, Boost, and Apollo. Whatever. I’ll try anything once.

        We didn’t hear from RIF or Boost as much because I think they thought reddit was negotiating in good faith, and they would come to a compromise that didn’t shut down their app. That was never in the plan for reddit, and they lost a few weeks of talking to people about what was happening.

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        I used Apollo the last years, but I had an Android before that and used RiF, I‘m sad about both and sad about the death of all the others I never used too. Reddit has lost me as a user forever and hope they enjoy their corporate curated ad experience over there. Goodbye to all the talented devs, may their next projects be even more successful.

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      rif’s UI was near perfect for me. I called it an app version of old.reddit, which was exactly what I wanted.

      (Before old.reddit I just considered it a perfect app version of Reddit.)