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.
FOSS options available via F-Droid:
And via the IzzyOnDroid repository:
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.
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.
Yeah, the really slow updates and unfinished stuff sucks, but from the 6 or so apps I’ve tried, it was still the best.
Racoon is dead and Eternity hasn’t been updated in a while.
No, it’s not someone forked it.
Will get update in future.
Ooh, do you have a link to the racoon fork?
Raccoon for Lemmy is on FDroid.
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.
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.