• baker@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Oh god, the loss of Sync was legitimately the straw that broke reddit’s back for me. I would instantly pay Laurence for this

  • CletusVanDamme@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Let’s be patient with this and not give him a hard time. For those of you who haven’t used Sync before, there was a major update a while back which caused strong emotions from many people and caused the developer to take a hiatus. Please be patient and kind and the result will be worth it!

    • kratoz29@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I used it just some months ago and discovered the best thing ever, care to explain the drama?

      • Master@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        2 years ago

        It had to do with how the cards were presented and how the quick menu and swipe up/down worked. I preferred the previous way but the new way worked just fine. Just took an extra click to use it how I wanted.

        It came down to changing how it looked / worked after everyone was already used to how it currently was. People get upset for no good reason sometimes and this was one of those times.

    • BorkBork@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      +1 to this, would rather the app supports logging into a fediverse server instead of just lemmy

      • Kichae@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        Lemmy, kbin, Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Friendica… They all use different APIs, and those APIs need to be supported separately by developers if they want their app to be compatible with all of them.

        ernest is talking about changing the kbin API to be more in line with lemmy’s, which would allow apps made for lemmy to also work with kbin, but they wouldn’t, for instance, work with (or possibly even know about) kbin’s microblogging feature.

  • Imhotep@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Would it be closed source?

    Good app, but with many trackers, and it wouldn’t work without Google services one day (anti piracy measure?).

    • Deemo@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I’d presume so based on reddit sync (monitization primarly from ads and iap). Apollo’s dev at one point made another app (primarly for killing amp links) that was paid and open sourced it, however he had issues with low effort copycats.

      https://github.com/christianselig/Amplosion

      The bright side of a closedsource app is in certain cases it can encourage faster development since the dev can work on it part/fulltime (idk how syncs revenue worked).

      To be clear the post above is my personal view (I could be completly wrong).

    • Master@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Sync is one of the big mobile apps for reddit that is getting shut down on the 30th with reddit’s API changes.