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.

  • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    2 days 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.

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      8·
      2 days 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.

  • Twig@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    27·
    2 days ago

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

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      16·
      2 days 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.

  • Fake4000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 days 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.

  • youngalfred@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    2 days 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.