Let's talk about Lemmy
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Morning all, As the July deadline approaches I've been considering working on Sync for Lemmy. So I thought I'd start by trying to gauge...

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Whether you used Sync or not, we could all use more app competition in this space.

  • OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I hopped around a lot before landing on Baconreader and, later, Sync. I don’t mind doing that again - but Sync might be where I end up staying if he’s quick. That said, I think Jerboa is actually rather nice and similar as it stands (at least for how I used Sync). Many of the things I want are on the Lemmy side as a whole, not necessarily the app side of it.

    • bread@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Jerboa has some problems it needs to polish (although a lot of issues I have look like they’ve been resolved in PR’s on the github page, ready for next release) but as an open source app for a previously tiny userbase, it does the job. Would switch over to Sync in a heartbeat though, if as you say, he’s quick.

      • Undearius@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 years ago

        It doesn’t help that the dev’s time is split between the Lemmy front-end, back-end, and the app.

  • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Not a fan of Sync, but if they’d also support kbin I’d probably still use it due to the lack of any alternatives.

    • Frostcoins@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Honestly out of all the android apps sync was the best one. I tried Boost, RedditIsFun,koala and a bunch more but sync had the best extra features and look.

      • Stovetop@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        The Sync community turned toxic when the dev implemented an updated UI a couple years ago. The new UI was beautiful and much more in line with the evolving visual design of Android, but the average user hates change. The dev version spent a while on the new UI while it was being refined, but the free/pro version was not upgraded until I want to say probably a year or more later, the developer having gone radio silent for a while under all the criticism.