Let’s face it: the app has been abandoned for longer than is acceptable, especially at this price level. It’s no longer working correctly on newer Lemmy versions, and there’s no indication the dev is still active.
Yes, he worked similarly during Reddit times, but a) Sync was much cheaper back then, and b) Reddit didn’t change as much.
Right now, to unsuspecting users Sync seems great given the 4.9 star rating on the Play Store. They’ll possibly buy this app before noticing that it’s subtly broken.
Please consider giving Sync a bad rating, but if you do so, explain why. Write about the broken functionality, so others don’t fall into the same trap.
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FOSS options available via F-Droid:
And via the IzzyOnDroid repository:
- Thunder
- Interstellar (also handles Mbin)
Go FOSS, avoid the Play store, be free.
Racoon is dead and Eternity hasn’t been updated in a while.
Racoon
No, it’s not someone forked it.
Eternity
Will get update in future.
I’ve been using Voyager for nearly a year and have no complaints.
Same here, though I do have one thing I miss from Sync: press+hold on an image in feed to make it full screen. Happen to know if there is a voyager setting to enable this functionality?
Right now I feel like Connect is giving me the most Sync like experience.
Try Eternity, it’s good.
It’s decent. My next favorite after Sync. However the upvote score isn’t showing properly for me. It’s the wrong count and goes downwards after I upvote. And if I do it again it gives a different number.
Unfortunately the dev on there is really inactive too. Although they’ve stated recently that they’re going to start working on it again.
Sigh. It’s too bad. I understand this isn’t their main thing so I don’t want to say too much.
Nice app aside from that though.
I haven’t had any real problems with it recently. What doesn’t work and what are the best alternatives?
The LW admins detailed some issues here: https://lemmy.world/post/23471887
The 0.19.4 release also broke marking posts as read in Sync for Lemmy. Although this isn’t really something we consider a blocker, it’s still worth mentioning, as there are still a lot of Sync for Lemmy users out there that haven’t noticed this issue yet if they’re only active on Lemmy.World. Over the last 2 weeks we’ve had nearly 5k active Sync for Lemmy users . This is unfortunately something that will break during the upgrade, as the API has changed in upstream Lemmy.
There are also additional issues with viewing comments on posts in local communities that appear to be related to the 0.19.4/0.19.5 release, appear to be a lot more serious. There have been various reports of posts showing with zero comments in Sync, while viewing them in a browser or another client will show various comments. It’s not entirely clear to us right now what the full impact is and to what extent it can be mitigated by user actions, such as subscribing to communities. If anyone wants to research what is needed to restore compatibility and potentially even propose a patch for compatibility with both the updated and the previous API version we’ll consider applying it as a custom patch on top of the regular Lemmy release.
If there won’t be a Sync update in time for our update and we won’t have a viable workaround available, you may want to check out !lemmyapps@lemmy.world to find potential alternatives.
But but… I like Sync? I use it on both platforms and it seems to be fine.
#why
I like the app, been with it for years, and I trust the dev. I get it. In his position I would unfortunately probably do the same.
And he actually showed up recently so something is in the works.
Where did he show up, out of curiosity? I’m not seeing any activity from him on the Github issue tracker or his account here.
DM re: my bug report. Not public so I wasn’t going to say anything until I saw the panic here.
He can post here and on another platform (like Instagram) so the users won’t think of switching.
That’s one of the issues I had when on Reddit. The developer used to go AWOL for extended periods of time. Not an issue on Reddit but definitely an issue here. Since then, I have switched to infinity for Reddit and kept using free apps.
Now on lemmy, I still use free apps (mainly voyager) and wouldn’t pay money for sync.
On an additional note, I see the developer of boost doing something similar.
Price level
Free
Huh?
Weird, how come I paid 20€ for it?
Idk why did you?
Come on, don’t play stupid
Not sure what you’re talking about. I downloaded it for free off the play store.
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and explain it, if you’re actually not understanding it.
Sync is a freemium app. You can use it for free, but you will have ads and tracking. Or you can pay a one-time fee to upgrade to premium, which removes ads and trackers. This upgrade costs 20€.
Just use an add-blocking DNS on your phone.
Why? I’m happy to support the developer of an application I use (as long as he actually uses the funds to fund further development).
Damn. As a die hard Sync for Reddit fan for years, donated lifetime license and having recently come back to Sync for Lemmy and feeling like it was a long lost friend, really really sad and heartbreaking to hear this.
Will do - I jumped ship to Summit and haven’t looked back. The only thing that would be nice to have here is an instance browser.
