Lemmy Finally feels usable! Thank you LJDawson
And 50% of the posts on lemmy in the last 12 hours are about Sync.
Hope we get some more diverse content soon lol
The hilarious thing is you can’t post from Sync yet, only comment, so for every post about Sync someone had to use their browser or another app to post it.
As soon as sync lets me post I’ll be posting things but until then imma just comment empty promises
Yeah im honestly starting to question if its all organic, as its trivially easy to artificially inflate posts, and we even had a post the other week warning exactly of app developers could manipulate votes to get more people to use their platform and make purchases.
I would say its mostly organic since a good amount of discussion is negative feedback about ads and the paid tiers.
I’d believe it’s organic tbh, I was waiting for Sync or Boost to drop before I fully took the plunge. There are probably many others like me for whom those apps and others defined the Reddit mobile experience and the other apps for Lemmy (or the ones I used at least) weren’t as feature rich so it’s an easy choice to make.
There’s a golden ratio somewhere, it feels like Reddit has become overflown with posts and empty discussions, even on relatively niche subs. I could get behind a more sane approach to my web browsing habits but of course it will take some time.
Or screenshots from Twitter/Reddit
We will. Lemmy seems to easily get flooded with singular stories. Eg whenever Elon comes up with yet another dumbass decision.
today was the first time I forgot if I was browsing reddit or lemmy. its so good to be back on sync
I’ve still got revanced sync installed and I’m forgetting which one I have open occasionally, lmao
Same here. Loving that the new icon is black and the old one is white. Makes it easier to see I went to the “dark side” 😂
Same, regardless of the “BuT iTs nOt FoSs” cries. You are free to use whatever app you want.
It ain’t FOSS but it’s totally BOSS.
#NoFussNoFOSS
Sync is doing fine but I honestly don’t understand the hype.
There is a dozen apps out there since the reddit migration with some having nearly the same features but without ads, without subscriptions and regular updates ever since.
Off the top of my head: Voyager, Summit, Connect, Thunder, Liftoff.
Some of us have been using Sync for 10+ years, we’re not exactly looking for something new
For real. Sync works incredibly well. The developer is responsive to the community. I know how to use it. I don’t want to learn a new app.
Honestly because IMO no other app compares to it in terms of polish, UX and smoothness; that’s not just out of lemmy apps either that’s phone apps in general.
And tbh that shouldn’t be too surprising, It’s got 10 years of development behind it and the dev works on it full time—no other lemmy app has that currently
The Wikipedia app comes dangerously close believe it or not.
You know what, I’ll definitely agree with that
Every single one of those apps except Summit and Voyager has janky scrolling, which is easy to notice on a 90Hz screen.
Sync has not dropped a single frame since my install on all my devices.
In terms of smoothness- 90hz screen only voyager and summit has that
It’s just how many of us are used to things. Particularly the collapsed comments along with rainbow colors depending on the nested comments. I’m sure one of those has it, but Sync has all my patterns. And it was as simple as importing my sync for reddit config to get all my options as they were. Worthwhile wait, and I don’t mind supporting a Dev. Especially when there is a one time ad-free payment option, which is all I need.
It didn’t even occur to me that the Sync for Reddit settings would import to Sync for Lemmy. That’s awesome! Thank you.
Came here to say, memmy is crazy good and the developer is dropping revs faster than people can post bugs.
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I like Thunder best
thunder is better than sync idk what everyone likes about sync just seems like a copy of all the other apps except they have to groundwork for ads and monetization
how revolutionary
This is my first post too! :)
Same, it’s now understandable and makes sense to my pea brain
Used Sync for Reddit for 7 or 8 years, this feels like home!
So what does sync do that lemmy on broswer doesn’t?
Aside from the polish, it’s also the familiar UX that many of us have used for a decade. It just feels familiar & right now!
Ehh ill give it a look. I generally avoid apps that are just a website.
Sync UI/UX are carried over from years of refinement as a Reddit client with full native controls. It now mostly just has a different API and service layer wired in for Lemmy. Definitely not a simple web view app.
Ill give it a look
A far more polished experience
I really wanted to just use the PWA, but Sync really is just so much better an experience right now. It’s smooth, but it also doesn’t lose my place in the feed every time I open a post. Trivial yet crucial!
It’s nice. I’m from Boost, but this works well
I’m just going to keep using Thunder until Boost comes out. Sync feels a little clunky.
This is only he third time I’ve driven stick, but this Ferrari sure feels clunky.
No. I used to use Sync for reddit back in the day when there weren’t better options. I’ve just moved to apps that have more functionality and more convenient gestures/UI like Boost.
As for Lemmy, I tried Sync because I assumed it would be better than the initial lemmy offerings, and found it wasn’t much improved from the early days of reddit sync and was lacking options and polish compared to apps like Thunder.
Not sure why you need to be condescending, trying to defend some app just because I said it was clunky.
Same as you… Although I’m jumping from sync to thunder every now an then, for me personally, the way comments looks on sync makes some visual noise, thunder in this regards looks better, but for every other thing, sync is apretty solid app…
The app is beautiful. Former rif user and decided to give Sync for Lemmy a try and I’m not disappointed.
Same here
you should check out thunder i think sync is dog comparitively
all sync has going for it is a cluddered screen and ads no?
Personally I was a Boost fan and I’m excited for its release for lemmy. But I’m using sync in the meantime and absolutely loving it. There’s a smoothness to this app, a refinement if you will that I couldn’t find on any of the other apps. The level of customization to make my feed my own.
I’ve been jumping between Jerboa, liftoff and now sync. Sync just has a smoothness that the other two apps don’t have, at least in my experience on my pixel 6 pro, scrolling and everything is butter smooth on sync, the others have some odd stutters sometimes
Totally on point… Like you, I am a boost user, but the experience here in sync so far is the best regarding all other apps… Either way, before this, I was using thunder nightly and so far so good… Now, I’m waiting for boost to decide for which one I’m gonna go as premium user…
Baconreader user here to represent!
For some reason all apps + web refuse to show me my comment people are replying to, even when pressing the “view context” button.
Sync does.
I don’t know why all of the other apps + web decided to break on me a week ago, but the only way I can reply to comments right now is because of Sync. Anyone else having this issue?
I don’t know why all of the other apps + web decided to break on me a week ago, but the only way I can reply to comments right now is because of Sync. Anyone else having this issue?
There is an open issue on GitHub. 0.18.3 seems to have changed the behavior of comment links. IN some cases, the comment specified isn’t even shown at all. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1999
I haven’t had this issue on Thunder.
I’m in the same boat bro, Sync got me enjoying Lemmy soooo much more. I’m lemmying my life away, and loving it
So you are the cause of the recent server problems!1!!
Does anyone know if we’re going to get the “Sync” feature back?
I really miss my offline reading.
