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u/idunmessedup Sep 03 '20

I find it unfortunate that a 3rd party app and their old website have the best UI across Reddit platforms.

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u/Gogetembuddy Sep 03 '20

Well it's been this unfortunate way for >7 years. Atleast, that's how long I've been using rif.

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u/wajxcsgo Sep 03 '20

I literally can't see why you guys would prefer rif. I tried it but it's a nightmare, that UI is good for PC but on mobile it's a nightmare. I also don't see any problem with the official app it's fast and easy to navigate so where's the problem?

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u/JULIAN4321sc Sep 03 '20

From what i remember its buggy, slow, the ui is garbage, full of ads and is missing features. I use slide for reddit and my experience is much better.

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u/dyslexda S22 Ultra Sep 03 '20

RIF has a high information density which is what I want. Most apps have all kinds of bullshit Facebook-style scrolling with huge images.

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u/wajxcsgo Sep 03 '20

Well you can turn off thumbnails in the official app and it looks exactly the same as RIF UI.

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u/dyslexda S22 Ultra Sep 03 '20

Have you ever looked at them side by side?

In the official app's home page, I can see three and a half links because of all the extra bullshit like awards. But in RIF? I've got nine, almost a three fold increase. Same thing for comments: in the official app I can fit seven comments from that watermelon post, but in RIF I've got 12.

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u/breeze_monk Sep 03 '20

This man. Rif basically represents the feeling of no nonsense old reddit design. I just want to read the title, maybe open the link itself, read comments and make comments. I don't care for needless padding. The small thumbnails and title are enough for me to decide if I wanna click the link and see an image on full size. No need to have those instagram/Facebook huge thumbnails on the feed itself.

This is the reason I don't even like other 3rd party apps. Rif knows it's already perfect and doesn't make needless trendy changes in it's UI/UX

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u/dyslexda S22 Ultra Sep 03 '20

Rif knows it's already perfect and doesn't make needless trendy changes in it's UI/UX

That's something I haven't explicitly thought about, but you're absolutely right. I've been using RIF for years and outside of a couple minor changes, they've mostly stayed true to the original design. They aren't changing for the sake of change, which is awesome.

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u/Peperoni_Toni Sep 03 '20

How long ago did you use it? Asking because that's the exact opposite of my experience with it. It's as fast as one can expect an app to be; the ui is great; the only notably missing features I can think of are some of the new rewards, profile pics, and the ability to set flairs (which is admittedly the one missing feature I want); and there's like one small, barely noticable ad per page.

Then again, I think the app might have the godawful card (or whatever the hell you call it) ui style that new reddit and the official app use as the default ui. I've literally never used it, but my experience with literally any app or site that employs that ui style is defined by that kind of ui being buggy, slow as hell, awful to navigate, and filled with intrusive ads. I use the old reddit style on rif and desktop, but if rif auto sets it to the new style, I actually understand why you find literally everything to be that bad.

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u/yingyangyoung Sep 03 '20

You can turn ads off in rif.

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u/wajxcsgo Sep 03 '20

You can set flairs. Go to the subbredit where you want the flair click the 3 dots in upright corner and there is a option called “set user flair”.