Can’t wait and will be buying premium if there is one asap. His last app served me well for years
Sync for Lemmy available
FUCK YEAH LET’S G–
Pre-register
… Oh.
Planned to be subscription only
Aaaaaaaand hard pass.
It’s not planned to be subscription-only
Stop downvoting this just because it’s wrong. It’s relevant to the conversation.
You ever felt like you’ve been stabbed in the chest?
Edit: got myself a less ancient phone and let me tell you: it’s beautiful
What kind of device do you have?
The best Palm Pilot that money can buy.
A shitty one :(
I wish this link and others like it worked on Jerboa. It always cycles back to my home feed and I just end up momentarily wondering what could have been before moving on.
It’s not worth it.
If you use F-Droid, you could try an app called ImgurViewer to view these quickly
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.ensoft.imgurviewer/
It basically intercepts image and video links from popular sites and shows them in a full-screen overlay, similar to how Infinity handled these
Are you kidding me? Just checked this community for the first time in a month and this post is 15 minutes old? That’s freaky timing
I’ve been checking every single day hah. Great timing on your part.
Aw man, a pre-register? I mean obviously I pre-registered, but you got me super excited for a second lol
Same here 😂 saw the Google replay link and clicked through “install” instantly then realized it was just a pre register 😂
App is already under internal testing
Public beta should be soon, according to the discord group.
They are crushing bugs like nobody’s business over there. I think they are at like beta #20 in less than a week.
You can try liftoff app
“Would you like Pepsi instead?”
That’s all you have? Ugh fine
Congrats @ljdawson@lemmy.world
It appears that it is getting close to a full release for Sync for Lemmy. My only concert is that it might go to a subscription only method of payment. I’d rather pay a lot for a one time unlock or even like a 2 year unlock instead of a monthly subscription.
Im getting subscription burnout and I’m sick of having to juggle literally a hundred subscriptions every month. If it does go subscription based, sadly I’ll probably pass on it. Which would be a sad close to a long history of using sync.
We’re talking over this on discord:
Consensus is one time payment to remove ads or subscription for ultra (which also covers ad removal)
That seems fair. I’m in the camp that is really hesitant to take on another subscription but also understand that this your living and it has to be worthwhile for you.
Thank God for the one time payment option.
Subscription fatigue is all too real.
I don’t do many subscriptions, but I will for you.
Looking forward to this!
Test
Test for Sync.
Testing
Hope it works @ljdawson@lemmy.world
Not related to this app, but I agree very much about subscriptions. I cancelled most of mine.
I think I’ll be canceling my Prime this year. The single biggest waste of a subscription.
I have Prime but yeah, thinking about getting rid of that too. I got free transport from Amazon when ordering stuff though so that’s very nice.
For me, the goods are worse than ever, and I just don’t care to support amazon’s practices nor China.
Also free shipping is still available for most items if you can wait 3 days. You know they’re going to raise the price again come the beginning of the year.
There will be a single time payment for ad-free as was the case with Sync for Reddit. Any subscription based model is for the features which are going to require running (and paying) for a server. Even for Ultra (the paid subscription model) we would most likely have a lifetime option.
Sync dev can have all my Google opinion rewards money. Pretty much what I use them for.
As there is only a handful of lemmy users compared to reddit, I think simply relying on one time purchase is not sustainable for the dev. After the bot accounts purge, there seems to be 1 million lemmy users right now, and only a fraction that is an active users, say, 20% of it (very generous), which translate to 200,000 users. If even 1% of those users bought Sync for Lemmy for $10 (no idea what the actual price will be), it would means 2000 people buy the app. With app store’s 30% cut, that means the dev only got $14,000, which is peanuts assuming he’ll need to support the app as long as the reddit version (10 years or more?).
What does make you think that’s gonna be a subscription?
Literally hundreds of subscriptions every month?
I’m in the beta. It’s great. It really feels like nothing happened.
Layout is the same, etc. Only thing not implemented yet is the inbox.
You guys are in for a treat
Sync for Reddit WAS my first app to open every morning. Sync for Lemmy WILL be the new first :D looking forward!
Beta? How? 🙏
it’s a closed, 100 people beta via Discord
Click the link that they are replying to?
Don’t see the typical Join for Beta button anywhere
That’s odd. I did when I clicked it. Maybe it regional?
Or maybe it’s because the (open) beta isn’t out yet, and you are mistaking pre-register for beta.
You are right.
It sounds like it’s already better than my experience with Jerboa. Jerboa’s had an unusual knack at creating/finding Json errors.
Jeroba sucks connect and liftoff are much better
I’m waiting for Sync. Some of what I described, I’ve learned is because I was on lemmy.one.
It’s genuinely just the reddit Sync on Lemmy. The dev has done a good job.
Anyone else noticed that Connect for Lemmy has just changed its design? Feels like it’s taken a lot of “inspiration” from Sync…
I remember the dev of connect was in this community praising sync a little while back so I’m not surprised.
Connect dev here - I am! Big fan of Sync (which probably comes through in Connect’s design language). RIF and Infinity is also a source of inspiration.
I like Connect, thanks for your efforts!
Using it right now in fact. If I reply multiple times, I’d like to report a bug where sometimes it posts comments multiple times.
I’ve noticed this as well but on other clients
Yes , download it just to check it out. Feels smooth.
I’m looking forward to replacing the Sync icon I still have sitting on my homescreen that just throws a 401. Can’t bring myself to kill it.
I just replaced it with jerboa while waiting, doesn’t even matter what the icon is, my muscle memory still takes me here automatically lol.
Same
I’m using a modified version with my own API key which is scratching the itch nicely at the moment. Can’t wait to use Lemmy via Sync too!
I paid for regular Sync, I paid for Dev Sync when the new UI was only in that channel, and I will gladly pay for Lemmy Sync the second I can!
I also ended up buying each version of sync and have registered for this one. It’ll be an instant buy.
I’m excited and pre-registered. I didn’t pay for sync for reddit, but now that I am more educated about the life of developers and third party apps, I will def pay for sync for lemmy. I have heard good things about some of the existing apps, but I have just been using the web browser while I wait for the sync app to be ready, and I am so ready to download and use it. <3
I donated to Boost for Reddit. I will probably donate to Boost for Lemmy as well. With the nature of Lemmy though, we can’t forget to donate to our favorite instances too!
I still don’t fully understand the fediverse, but I’m starting to. I know that the .world or the .ml or the .ee or whatever are the “instances” and that I can see all the stuff on all of them even tho I use .world. I am sure I will understand it better once I can start using sync again (or at least start understanding it in the capacity in which I’ll be using it). How do I support an instance? I’m also a broke bitch and don’t have a ton of disposable income, but reddit was and lemmy now is a service I appreciate and rely on, so I want to support the people providing said service, although I’m so grateful that I’ve been able to use sync for free for essentially the last decade.
Yeah, anything after the @ is the instance. Each instance hosts some of the communities (subreddits) and some of the users. Donate to the instance you’re signed up to as a first priority and then maybe any other that hosts a load of communities you care about or do a particularly good job at something.
But if you’re broke and can’t afford it, don’t worry! On the other hand those of us who DO have a little bit of disposable income should donate a little here and there to help bring about the internet we want to see.
There’s a donate button on the top of the page (it looks like a heart) you can donate there. Second, a little off topic trick but did you know Mastodon users can communicate with us as well!! its pretty cool
I was never a Twitter user so I didn’t feel the need to become a mastodon user, but I do think that’s very cool, so now I can see stuff on mastodon without having to be a mastadonian? (Ps thanks for chatting)
Only from Mastodonians that put in the effort to post to a Lemmy community or respond to a Lemmy post. Still neat to see it working though. If you’re really interested you could try Kbin. It interacts with all Lemmy and Mastodon content.
Can’t wait to delete all the other lemmy apps I’ve been trying. Most do most things well, but none do everything well like Sync.
Tbd, not saying it wont be good. But will temper my expectations until I see the app and how it feels.
It’s the same UI experience as the reddit version so I don’t see any reason to not be excited about it.
The problem is that there are some issues which will not be solved by the app like links to posts on another instances
In a browser this can be solved with a userscript. Could the same be done within an app?
Ok. So that’s one thing sync can’t do. Are you dismissing it based on one feature?
I’m saying that it is not going to be the lemmy UX savior
Idk, that’s one pretty minor inconvenience imo. I wouldn’t be surprised if the links can be corrected by the app anyways since there are some browser extensions/scripts that can do it on desktop. It’s not an unsolvable problem.
Lemmy have it! 😄
