Afternoon everyone,
I wanted to go over a few points related to pricing, stats and the roadmap
Pricing
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Sync for Lemmy is completely free with ads (the same as Sync for Reddit)
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You can remove ads in the account picker or drawer for a one time fee of ~$20
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Sync Ultra also removes ads but it’s not required
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I’ll be working on regional prices over the coming weeks
There are now 24k installed users up from 100 the previous day!
I’m going to be spending the next few days going through all of the comments / messages and fixing any crashes.
As always thanks for the support and hope you’re liking Sync!
Lj
Edit: testing edit
Huh. I swear ad removal was $13 yesterday. Did that change? $20 is quite an increase over that
Thank you for Sync! I’m very happy with the experience so far!
One of the best polished apps for Android ever, and certainly the best for Lemmy.
Happily paying for Ultra :-).
If I may give a tiny bit of criticism: I can’t find a way view or set comment language. Is that expected?
Incredible work. It’s amazing having this app come with us.
Thank you for this 🙏🙏
I hope the negative posts aren’t too discouraging; some of the foss community here seems to be oddly toxic. If you don’t like it, don’t pay for it.
Once we can get hidden posts to stay hidden this app will be perfect
I love the app!
For some reason when refreshing all hidden posts become unhidden. I’m not sure if that’s a setting or a bug.
Do reddit sync pro / reddit sync ultra lifetime purchases carry over in any way?
Why would they? This isn’t Reddit.
Because the purchased services are no longer available and it would be a pretty good faith acation to take to prove life time means life time
Life time of the product. Reddit shut them down. You quite literally were provided lifetime service.
If you have issues, speak to Reddit. They’re the ones responsible for killing your service. The developer provided support until it was impossible to.
Perhaps you’re missing that I am not demanding anything but saying it would be a nice nod to supporters of a product and a good PR move.
But it’s good you aren’t his PR team cuz you are very bad at communicating.
I’m bad at communicating because I don’t think you should expect someone to give you a lifetime subscription on a new app because you purchased it on an old app for a totally different platform?
You should read the ToS before buying things. It’ll save you entitlement.
Man… Really scent blind to your own garbage ain’t ya
Really entitled, aren’t ya?
Negative.
I was wondering this too, because I bought lifetime Ultra before Sync Reddit shut down. It was a gesture of appreciation though, so I certainly wouldn’t expect it to carry over. But since I’m not seeing ads, I was wondering if it might have…
Hid posts are coming back when I refresh, this a known issue?
Edit: Yup, known issue, found the bug tracker! That’s a doozy
Apart from adding missing functionality (posting and searching), these are my top missing features at the moment:
- Setting to increase font size of replies you are typing
- Support for the link format [ Community Name ] ( /c/community @ instance )
- Support for full Markdown (
codeand spoiler don’t work well, for example) - Support for connecting to an unfederated community on a remote instance via search (like you would with ! community @ instance . tld on browser)
- Support for browsing all communities on a specific instance
There are more nice-to-haves I can think of but these seem pretty important.
I have one more thing I forgot to add actually: refresh rate of new replies in the inbox as well as how it is displayed. Sync seems to be quite slow when it comes to refreshing inbox. I’ve been jumping between apps a lot today comparing stuff like markdown support, and often I get an alert on another app, but have to manually refresh the Sync inbox to see I have replies.
I’d also like a ! indicator somewhere in the UI for new replies in your inbox that is visible no matter where you are currently (such as to the left of the Search 🔍 icon in the top bar).
I think this setting should be on by default if sidebar navigation is turned on. It’s a real game changer for this app in my opinion!
Settings shortcut: Experimental > Sliding panel style drawer
I haven’t found any issues with it despite it being experimental. The only downside is that I now want it in every app that isn’t Sync…
Edit: If I can make a change request. Could the search bar in the side panel be made into a pill shape like in the bottom drawer? Would modernize the look quite nicely imo.
Device information
Sync version: v23.08.03-16:15 Sync flavor: googlePlay Ultra user: true View type: Slides Push enabled: false Device: oriole Model: Google Pixel 6 Android: 13Hopping on to the “I feel at home” train! One thing that really bugged me about the alternatives was that they weren’t as smooth and fluid. Like I scroll down and it jumps, I scroll up, it jitters etc.
Sync is the UI and the UX I’ve missed!
Loving it. I was a longtime user of Reddit Sync, so I’m fully on board the Sync for Lemmy train.
The only thing I’ve noticed is that after a period of non use perhaps an hour or so, when I launch, it crashes back to my home screen. The only way I can get the app to open is by Clearing all Data then restarting.
Will there be any way to allow to import in existing ultra subscription as i purchased one for sync for reddit. Or at least offer some sort of discount.
Is there a way to add feeds? I’d like everything hot 6 hour
Hi, there isn’t a submission button yet. So will ask here. Sorry
Pricing will this app make more money with advertising revenue from me or the one off payment?
I am lucky enough to have Google play credit so can pay but just wondering to pay it not to pay?
Thanks for a great app can’t wait till it’s all up to speed. Ty WP gg
The app crashes every time I try to select an account or try to login. On some occasions I do manage to login but my feeds and communities are empty.
Also, $30 CAD for ad removal? Sorry but that’s too much for me.
