Sync was my Reddit app of choice for over 5 years, and after 30 minutes on Sync for Lemmy, my brain is fully convinced I’m back on Reddit. Supposedly this is just a Public Beta, but the only bugs I’ve found so far are the fault of my Lemmy instance, not Sync.
Sync for Lemmy should honestly just be the world’s default Lemmy app.
OMG long-press to peek is so satisfying. And small things like image viewing. So easy with one hand double-tap slide, while connect had me pinching like a caveman.
And comment drafts.
Looking forward to the lifetime unlock.
It’s like having Reddit back, this is amazing. 🙏
For as long as I can remember Reddit and Sync have been one and the same. I never used Reddit website or app, only ever used Sync to browse Reddit hosted content. I used it a lot. I’ve missed it a lot.
Between the Lemmy platform and Sync client, to all intents and purposes what Reddit was has been fully restored/migrated.
I know it’s early days, but I did not expect to see anything like this so soon and it gives me hope that Lemmy can grow and thrive into the network of people that always made Reddit what it was. Everything that’s needed is there - early, a little rough around the edges, but there. And being improved constantly.
Hallelujah!
I really wish the dev the best of luck. But personally, the idea of trying to make something lucrative and introduce ads (& the accompanying trackers) on top of something that people joined because they rejected that in the first place just doesn’t sit right with me, especially given that we have awesome apps like Voyager and Memmy that are purely donation-driven.
Those options are nowhere near the level of polish of Sync.
Nobody HAS to use it. Ultimately if you want a choice of premium apps there has to be some incentive for a developer, or multiple in some cases, to basically go full time to develop it. Talented devs don’t usually work for years on end for no pay, and I would be surprised if donations ever become significant enough to compare.
I haven’t seen any ads yet . But I will definitely be willing to buy the pro version again like I did with Reddit .
Haven’t used the app yet as I’m not really sold yet but the Play Store and the app’s own privacy policy mention them:
FWIW, I think the dev has said somewhere that the tracker libs aren’t loaded if you are subscribed (or pay for the ad-free version when that’s available) as they’re part of the ad frameworks
Now we just need Reddit is Fun for Lemmy.
Yea I’ve used RIF for 11 years. Sync is pretty good but I’m really missing RIFs comment jumping system. Jumping from comment to comment and parent/root was so good
Sync supports comment jumping.
Yes but it’s not quite the same. It jumps to each top level comment so that it’s at the top of the screen. RIF would have the jump button on the comment and jump so that the next comment would be right where your finger is
Ah okay,I understand. I don’t know if I ever going to use it but I will throw it in the suggestions room on discord.
Sync is in beta now, so I guess the dev will be busy with ironing out the bugs and make sure everything is running smooth.
But perhaps he’ll add it in in a future update.
Thanks!
Boost is IMO the best Android Reddit app and they have a Lemmy version coming soon…
yeah I used RiF for like 10 years, trying Sync for lemmy now, it’s not bad, but not as simple and clean as RiF is.
though maybe it’s just that sync is different from what I am used to
Sync is quite customizable. Play around in the settings and you can get it close to RiF. Source: switched from RiF to Sync a couple years back.
Finally logged in with Sync. 😆
I created my account a while ago but not having an App back then was more annoying/cumbersome to use the web front-end. Hence I quickly lost interest.
Learned about Sync today and just started to actually use Lemmy and subscribing to all the different communities.
Awesome to see so many vibrant communities now 🥳.
Liftoff is pretty great too.
It appears that it is not opensource, unfortunately.
Nice. Got it installed and walking through settings. Seems nice so far. Not sure about ultra pricing though…
I would definitely support the developer if it was a one time purchase. Paying monthly for an app to browse lemmy ain’t it for me
Anyone figured out how to enlarge comment body text?
And it works great so far for me. Does anyone know if there’s a way to fully collapse comments completely to the username/votes?
Comment Options -> Collapse Parent 👍
He’ll yeah, brother
It says it’s not available. I have a Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra
Phone is too old
I have a Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra
It’s 6 months old.
The issue was that Google wanted a photo of my ID for age verification.
As you guys may know, I helped out a little over there, but I probably won’t use it much personally since I happen to like the Lemmy browser experience.
Wow, this is very clean! I never used sync for Reddit so I didn’t understand all the hype but I get it now. I’m very impressed
Have it installed. So far so good. We’ll see.
It will not let me sign in on the app, Anyone else experience that issue?
Me too
My world account has been having issues in general today so I tried my CA account first when I downloaded sync and it worked fine. Have you tried an account on another instance?
I had to change my password… Super weird. There must be some symbol causing issues
