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.
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.
FOSS options available via F-Droid:
And via the IzzyOnDroid repository:
- Thunder
- Interstellar (also handles Mbin)
Go FOSS, avoid the Play store, be free.
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.
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.
Ooh, do you have a link to the racoon fork?
Raccoon for Lemmy is on FDroid.
I second Jerboa recommendation
Looks like jerboa has similar navigation, just not quite as polished. I’ll roll with it for a bit and see how I feel in a few days.
Any of these have similar gesture based navigation as sync? That’s my favorite thing about it. I Just tried Voyager and it’s alright, but I dislike the navigation.
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.
#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.
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.
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).
Was it worth it?
Yes
