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.)
July 1st update
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 were quirky and rough around the edges, but you always got the job done. You knew 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.
It’s time to let go, for now.
Goodnight, RIF.
Rif was reddit for me. It was how I accessed it 99.9% of the time. By far the most used app on all my phones for more than a decade. I'm extremely sad that this is how it dies, but all things must end, it seems. Rest in peace old friend. And rot in pieces reddit, for killing the best goddamned app I've ever used...
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.
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.)