I need more time to get all my thoughts together, but posting this quick post since so many users have been asking, and it's been making rounds on news sites.

Summary of what Reddit Inc has announced so far, specifically the parts that will kill many third-party apps:

1. The Reddit API will cost money, and the pricing announced today will cost apps like Apollo $20 million per year to run. RIF may differ but it would be in the same ballpark. And no, RIF does not earn anywhere remotely near this number.

2. As part of this they are blocking ads in third-party apps, which make up the majority of RIF's revenue. So they want to force a paid subscription model onto RIF's users. Meanwhile Reddit's official app still continues to make the vast majority of its money from ads.

3. Removal of sexually explicit material from third-party apps while keeping said content in the official app. Some people have speculated that NSFW is going to leave Reddit entirely, but then why would Reddit Inc have recently expanded NSFW upload support on their desktop site?

Their recent moves smell a lot like they want third-party apps gone, RIF included.

I know some users will chime in saying they are willing to pay a monthly subscription to keep RIF going, but trust me that you would be in the minority. There is very little value in paying a high subscription for less content (in this case, NSFW). Honestly if I were a user of RIF and not the dev, I'd have a hard time justifying paying the high prices being forced by Reddit Inc, despite how much RIF obviously means to me.

There is a lot more I want to say, and I kind of scrambled to write this since I didn't expect news reports today. I'll probably write more follow-up posts that are better thought out. But this is the gist of what's been going on with Reddit third-party apps in 2023.

The blackout is starting so this subreddit will be Restricted. Thank you everyone. Watching everyone come together is so incredible and means everything to me and the other app developers.

It gives me hope for Internet communities, watching all these completely disparate groups come together for a common purpose. And guess what: it has nothing to do with this platform we're on. It has to do with the people. You. Us.

Websites come and go all the time. Yet we'll always find each other, somehow.

I have hope for the future. You have all reminded me how that feels, like never before. Thank you.

What's next for rif devs? Do you have a discord to follow? Please don't go 😢🫂

Thanks for all the hard work y'all. Last post before logging out forever.

I fuxking hate the official reddit app. Its fucking reddit Instagram hybrid. They give you alerts for fucking everything. Absolute shit. That's not the reddit I joined 11 years ago. Sad day.

I don't know what I'll do , the official app sucks so much ass , Reddit has really outdone themselves.

10+ years using reddit is fun

So every 3rd party app has to shut down on June, 30, 2023.

Let‘s tell Reddit including u/spez a big fuck you by deleting your account after June 30, 2023

UPVOTE SO THIS GETS TO THE FRONTPAGE also feel free to crosspost!

On Reddit.com

Visit your Account Settings and scroll down to the Delete Account section and click Delete Account. If your account was created with your Google account or Apple ID, scroll down to the Connected Accounts section and click disconnect next to the Google account or Apple ID you signed up with. If you don’t have a password yet, you’ll be asked to create one.

on old.reddit.com

Visit the delete tab of your preferences. Enter your username and password and confirm your deletion before clicking delete account.

Don’t just delete your account delete your entire comment and post history. If you only delete your account Reddit still has your content and it’s still on the site.

r/reddelete / https://redact.dev/ , https://github.com/Soorena/reddelete, https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite, and https://github.com/sr33/ares seem promising.

Bye everyone :) Also do not Award this post because reddit deserves no money!

Sorry if that counts as a shitpost, but trying the official app made me stop and just appreciate the design of rif and kind of archive it before it's all over. Just look at this, no irrelevant data is being displayed. Clean, beautiful, efficient, smooth. How do you even go back. Such a shame.

I've been using the free RIF app for a while, so figured I should pay for the upgrade. It's currently the #1 paid app across all categories.

Fun side note, top paid apps in the social category is filled with reddit 3rd party apps now.

"reddit is fun" is now "rif is fun for Reddit" due to trademark licensing changes.

In text you can still call it "RIF", or "rif is fun", or "rif".

Verbally you can say "R-I-F" or "riff" or "riff is fun", or for the adventurous "riff-iff" (rif i.f.).

I should mention I'm grateful to the "old" Reddit Inc. and its former employees for being willing to let me use the "reddit is fun" name for the past decade, working with me on mutually beneficial agreements like revenue share, in exchange for licensing the Reddit trademark. Not sure if you would be reading this, but thank you.

Thank you all, RIF-using Redditors, for your continued support for so many years, and going forward.

tl;dr: Reddit Gold is becoming a confusing microtransaction based system. Gilding via the "reddit is fun" app will be disabled until it is determined that the new system will work with the app.

Reddit Inc. has announced some upcoming changes to the Reddit Gold system. Unfortunately, they are taking a simple and popular system and making it more confusing.

Today it's straightforward: you pay $3.99 and give a post or comment a gold badge, and the recipient gets a month of gold benefits.

In the future, Reddit Inc. wants to turn it into a microtransaction system: you buy yourself a Premium monthly membership for $5.99 (note the price increase), which comes with "Coins" to gift to others. Instead of one standard Gold gift, Reddit has decided to split it into three different tiers of gifts, which you pay for with Coins: Silver (a badge), Gold (badge + Coins), and Super Gold (badge + a month of premium). The only tier where the recipient receives gold benefits is Super Gold at $5.99, equivalent to today's Gold at $3.99.

I have not received guidance from the Reddit admins about how all these changes will affect gilding via the "reddit is fun" gold bot, so gilding via the app is disabled until all the details are ironed out with the new Reddit Gold system. There is a possibility that gilding will remain disabled indefinitely, if the new Reddit Gold system is incompatible with the "reddit is fun" gilding setup.

(Gilding may remain enabled for the next few days so that I can release a proper update explaining the change. This will probably be in RIF version 4.10.2.)

Reddit was fun

u/spez would've prosecuted Aaron

It's a shame it had to come to this.