Sync is back in its rightful place on my device home screen, only now it points me at Beehaw. Things are looking up.
Yeah, this feels like coming home. I tried the other options, but none felt as smooth or as customisable as this.
Dreams do come true
I have mixed feelings.
On one hand, it’s nice to have something familiar.
On the other hand, Sync was basically reddit for me, and I’m having something of knee-jerk reaction where I feel like I should be using something “fresh” that doesn’t remind me of my time on reddit.
Like, I don’t actually want Lemmy to feel like a straight up drop-in replacement for reddit. I want it to feel unique.
I like some of the other apps, but none feel “there” yet. Might just stick with the web app for now.
(Also, not open source. I trust the dev, but I just want to be able to install shit from F-Droid or Izzyondroid or whatever instead of relying on the Play Store. I understand the decision and don’t hold it against him at all, but it’s something I’ve always disagreed with.)
I used to equate Sync with Reddit too, but now I have a different perspective.
Reddit is nothing but a glorified link aggregator. Sync was my preferred way of viewing said list of links. Now that I have the exact same experience on Lemmy I’ve realized that Sync wasn’t Reddit, it was link aggregation and where those links come from doesn’t really matter.
It’s kind of poetic because that’s the promise of Lemmy. It doesn’t matter where the links are hosted.
Even if you don’t end up using it, if it enables more users to find their way to Lemmy, we all benefit.
I never really clicked with Sync for reddit, and trying it for Lemmy, all the acknowledgements and agreeing with privacy policy really rubs me the wrong way for a Fediverse client. But if it works for others I’m all for it.
Oh, yeah. Definitely agree. I’m really glad that it’s back and I’m happy for the dev and the users who love it, but I think maybe it’s just not for me anymore, despite me using it exclusively for reddit for almost a decade.
Thankfully, we’re getting more and more options as time goes on. And quickly as well. Wasn’t expecting a public release of Sync this soon, so it’s good to see more and more clients coming out.
Use sync but switch up your theme!
No problem, use Liftoff.
It’s so good to be home T_T
Truly
Oh yes, I bought it, like I did for RedditSync 10 years ago
It’s nice to see sync back but going to wait until they introduce one time payment to remove ads before I start using it. Will stick with browser and Foss options until then.
Heads up he just added that to beta 25 which is now available on the play store.
Or it’s going to be available soon? I’m actually not sure the status as I’ve updated but still only see the two options, but his recent comments indicate he’s added that.
Ah, found it. If you’re not subscribed to ultra there’s a separate “remove ads” option that you pay separately for.
How much is it?
Incredibly fucking expensive in my location. I don’t know if it’s defaulting to the subscription or something, but it’s about 15x cost of my Pro purchase from several years ago.
For ultra or just the ad removal?
When I clicked the “Remove ads” option, so not Ultra. It’s possible they’re linked, which would explain the price.
$20 to remove ads, $100 for Ultra.
Yeah. In my location, it’s a bit closer to $25 when taking forex into account.
$20 to remove the ads
$99 for lifetime “ultra” which removes ads, comes with cloud storage for settings I guess? And all sorts of other bells and whistles that rely on cloud services to work.
Seems decent to me, considering the subscription for a year is $20, if you need those things.
But removing ads for $20 is all I need.
For me it’s $20.
The one time IAP is now live $19.99 plus tax
The amount of time I’d spend in Sync for Reddit daily, this was a no brain purchase for me.
same, nice to see this meme 😎
Speaking of which, is/will there be a way of transferring your sync for reddit payment over to the lemmy app? I bought it like half a year ago. Understandable if I have to re-buy it, but figured asking won’t hurt.
Nope, never heard any plan to support transferring purchase on sync community.
When I just installed it, the second or third option that came up was “Restore purchases: Restore your previous in-app purchases made in Sync”.
This is my first time using sync so I don’t have anything to test it with.
That’s most likely for reinstallation. Doesn’t apply to previous reddit versions (I was a Sync Pro user and just tested this to see, even though I knew purchases wouldn’t be carried over.)
I have never been happier to download an app in my life. Connect was great for the time but the polish and ux of sync is unmatched
I’m not sure if this was how it worked for reddit but it makes you set it up when first opening, then again when adding an account, then again for each new account. There don’t seem to be any global settings so you have to manually copy settings for each account. This makes it kind of a pain to set up how I want.
Yeah, it was the same with reddit. Common complaint.
Quickest way to deal with this is Settings > Backup > Backup now. Log out/sign in into new account, Settings > Backup > Restore from backup.
Since all the backup does is save local user settings, it won’t affect any accounts or anything like that.
I haven’t used sync in years so I didn’t know this is how it always was
That can actually be a good thing. In reddit, I’d set the accounts up slightly different so I knew what account I was logged into. Basically, my main was amoled and alt account was dark gray. Easy way to distinguish what account you’re using.
I get you and I actually agree. But I think it might be easier to have option somewhere that applies current settings to other accounts.
Unsurprisingly the same issues as the Reddit app. The fonts are all over the place, the layout is kinda weird and the thumbnails are tiny.
I really didn’t like sync before, but gave it another try and really customized the UI and like it a lot now. The default font is so tiny
I still don’t like it, doesn’t look like there’s any new options either. Luckily I just found out that someone forked Infinity over, which was my second favorite Reddit app, and it is FOSS.
https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy/releases
This is amazing news. Thank you for letting us know!
I wasn’t aware of this! Thanks for putting this on my radar
The project’s official community is also here: [email protected].
Too bad Infinity has that weird fixation on not marking posts as read persistently, it would be great if not for that.
Feel free to contribute.
It was like that because of a deliberate design choice that enjoyed widespread support
What design choice exactly? You can always fork it if you want to.
Edit: I just tried and the hidden posts all seem to stay hidden even after restarting the app. What exactly are you missing / is your problem?
Infinity was originally a Reddit app that has been forked. This came up more than once:
“This is intended”.
Maybe that’s different now, but normal people don’t pay attention to feature upgrades on open source projects that they don’t use, and the fact that this was intended behavior led me to believe there was no particular reason it would ever change, especially since it still hadn’t when I last used the app some time after the dev commented in the second screenshot.
Yeah once I tweaked list view to use large fonts, I was much happier. I don’t really have any major issues with it yet, except that I can’t assign a shortcut to go to the comments from a gesture. It’s just a habit from a previous Reddit app that’s tough to break.
Sync is so customizable. If you are willing to go through all the settings it’s worth it.
Ooh, nice. I hope this means Boost for Lemmy’s release isn’t that far behind!
This is the one I’m excited about. I switched from Sync to Boost and never went back as a redditor.
Submitting new posts seems to be “coming soon”. No issues commenting. I just dropped into chrome to submit, I’m sure he will button it up soon
I’ve already gotten an update to the app since I installed it this morning. A promising development pace. I paid for the year license cus you gotta spread the love on the Fedi.
Using it since this morning, works great, has the hide read post I so wanted. Very intuitive UI and all. But I had not realized it yet, as I seldom post myself, that it was not done. It feels complete and yet it’s missing one very important part for the community to keep growing lol.
There’s a lot to it if you want to do it right. I’m hopeful for crossposting like the webui
This is so huge
It feels like if I was on that other site.
Do any of the apps work with kbin yet? I couldn’t get sync to. 😕
There isn’t an API for it to connect to yet.
Not yet. Artemis is seems to be in closed beta for now (?).
Just a few more days for public beta!
But hopefully/kbin gets more app options overall. Especially with more features than lemmy, like following domains and profiles🤞
Love the app so far!
Yayy!! And Artemis is just getting warmed up 😜
Yay!!! It looks like I have to rebuy pro but I’m ok with that
Same. Fastest app purchase I’ve ever made
it’s just so worth it lol — I’m not a big app person but Sync has consistently offered such a wonderful polished experience (far far outshining most other sites native apps)
I’m back baby!
I have Connect now, why would I need Sync?
Best reason would be if you were a reddit sync user in the past Lemmy sync would feel familiar.
It analogous to Apollo users feeling voyager similar (to an extent).
Very much this. It feels like being back on Reddit. Without Reddit…
I’ve been using Connect until now. Connect worked but, for me, it was like wearing work boots in and around the home. Sync is like wearing slippers again.
