Let’s face it: the app has been abandoned for longer than is acceptable, especially at this price level. It’s no longer working correctly on newer Lemmy versions, and there’s no indication the dev is still active.

Yes, he worked similarly during Reddit times, but a) Sync was much cheaper back then, and b) Reddit didn’t change as much.

Right now, to unsuspecting users Sync seems great given the 4.9 star rating on the Play Store. They’ll possibly buy this app before noticing that it’s subtly broken.

Please consider giving Sync a bad rating, but if you do so, explain why. Write about the broken functionality, so others don’t fall into the same trap.

      • bert@lemmy.monsterEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Same here, though I do have one thing I miss from Sync: press+hold on an image in feed to make it full screen. Happen to know if there is a voyager setting to enable this functionality?

        • mintiefresh@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          It’s decent. My next favorite after Sync. However the upvote score isn’t showing properly for me. It’s the wrong count and goes downwards after I upvote. And if I do it again it gives a different number.

          Unfortunately the dev on there is really inactive too. Although they’ve stated recently that they’re going to start working on it again.

          Sigh. It’s too bad. I understand this isn’t their main thing so I don’t want to say too much.

          Nice app aside from that though.

          • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            Yeah, the really slow updates and unfinished stuff sucks, but from the 6 or so apps I’ve tried, it was still the best.

    • Lizardking13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Any of these have similar gesture based navigation as sync? That’s my favorite thing about it. I Just tried Voyager and it’s alright, but I dislike the navigation.

    • Lizardking13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Looks like jerboa has similar navigation, just not quite as polished. I’ll roll with it for a bit and see how I feel in a few days.

  • Twig@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    31·
    1 month ago

    I haven’t had any real problems with it recently. What doesn’t work and what are the best alternatives?

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      24·
      1 month ago

      The LW admins detailed some issues here: https://lemmy.world/post/23471887

      The 0.19.4 release also broke marking posts as read in Sync for Lemmy. Although this isn’t really something we consider a blocker, it’s still worth mentioning, as there are still a lot of Sync for Lemmy users out there that haven’t noticed this issue yet if they’re only active on Lemmy.World. Over the last 2 weeks we’ve had nearly 5k active Sync for Lemmy users . This is unfortunately something that will break during the upgrade, as the API has changed in upstream Lemmy.

      There are also additional issues with viewing comments on posts in local communities that appear to be related to the 0.19.4/0.19.5 release, appear to be a lot more serious. There have been various reports of posts showing with zero comments in Sync, while viewing them in a browser or another client will show various comments. It’s not entirely clear to us right now what the full impact is and to what extent it can be mitigated by user actions, such as subscribing to communities. If anyone wants to research what is needed to restore compatibility and potentially even propose a patch for compatibility with both the updated and the previous API version we’ll consider applying it as a custom patch on top of the regular Lemmy release.

      If there won’t be a Sync update in time for our update and we won’t have a viable workaround available, you may want to check out !lemmyapps@lemmy.world to find potential alternatives.

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      I’m happy that you like Sync, I do too! But it hasn’t been updated in a long time, and some features don’t work anymore with up-to-date Lemmy instances. With coming updates, Sync will stop working entirely. The roadmap the dev talked about hasn’t appeared in almost a year. At this point, new users should be made aware that buying Sync as-is is a bad idea.

    • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      Have you not had any issues with all the comments of a thread being missing? About 30-40% of the time I open comments where it says there are anywhere between 3 and 20 comments just to find no comments. I open the thread in browser and all the comments are there. I’m having to constantly bounce between sync and Firefox just to read comments.

      And no it has nothing to do with the selected languages, I tried selecting all languages in my settings and it makes no difference. Additionally, the same users whose comments are missing show up fine in other posts, and the bug affects the entire thread regardless of user, no comments are visible in the bugged threads.

      • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        14 days ago

        I have had that happen a few times but they appear after dragging down to refresh. I just figured my internet connection was being wonky.

        • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          14 days ago

          Hmm that must be something different then, I can refresh a bunch and it will finish loading in under 1 second (so it doesn’t seem like it’s timing out or it would take several seconds at least) and it will just say “There are no comments”, even though the comment count will show comments. I can go to any other thread and see comments and go back and the bugged threads stay empty.

  • Fake4000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    1 month ago

    That’s one of the issues I had when on Reddit. The developer used to go AWOL for extended periods of time. Not an issue on Reddit but definitely an issue here. Since then, I have switched to infinity for Reddit and kept using free apps.

    Now on lemmy, I still use free apps (mainly voyager) and wouldn’t pay money for sync.

    On an additional note, I see the developer of boost doing something similar.

  • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    1 month ago

    #why

    I like the app, been with it for years, and I trust the dev. I get it. In his position I would unfortunately probably do the same.

    And he actually showed up recently so something is in the works.

      • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        1 month ago

        DM re: my bug report. Not public so I wasn’t going to say anything until I saw the panic here.

        • drawerair@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          14 days ago

          He can post here and on another platform (like Instagram) so the users won’t think of switching.

  • youngalfred@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    1 month ago

    Will do - I jumped ship to Summit and haven’t looked back. The only thing that would be nice to have here is an instance browser.

  • unscholarly_source@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    1 month ago

    Damn. As a die hard Sync for Reddit fan for years, donated lifetime license and having recently come back to Sync for Lemmy and feeling like it was a long lost friend, really really sad and heartbreaking to hear this.