cross-posted from: 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.
As someone who came over from reddit basically via Sync, this is normal. Dev likes to go MIA for extended periods of time and suddenly appears with huge updates.
Doesn’t suit the still developing environment here, though.
Also just extremely rude… Everyone would understand if he puts out a short message like “busy with work for the next few months”. Randomly leaving for months while people pay for something you make is crazy.
I wouldn’t characterize that as “extremely rude”.
Idk, we don’t have to use it, tons of clients out there…
Still very shitty behavior when you’re asking for 20€
Wait, what?! I’m on sync right meow and haven’t noticed anything off about it. But i also don’t have any other source of news or social media to compare to lol.
The most shocking revelation tho is that I haven’t paid a dime to use synce and it’s been my only means of accessing Lemmy since I annexed from reddit. There is an option for premium but there is nothing about the free version that I would feel I’m missing out on something enough to pay for it.
When the dev announced he’d be porting Sync to Lemmy, he mentioned that he’d have to raise the premium price to cover costs. I gladly paid to support him, but that was under the assumption he wouldn’t go AWOL for months with outstanding bugs.
Ok that makes way more sense than I originally understood. I totally agree.
Sure we don’t, but as a long time subscriber on reddit then Lemmy, who doesn’t even need the ultra features but wanted to support the dev, I’ve been feeling bamboozled for a few months now…
Has he ever been MIA for basically a year+ though? I don’t remember it ever getting quite this bad in the reddit days, maybe it was just more stable so I didn’t notice.
I quit Sync months ago, I’ve been using Voyager and I love it. It actually has better functionality than Sync and somehow it manages to stay within 12 months of being up to date with the rest of the Fediverse.
Frankly LJD burned any good will and I don’t plan on ever returning. Save your money and time and go with a FOSS alternative.
Jerboa for the win.
As someone who used sync on reddit for many years, I switched to Summit a few weeks ago and it’s great. This post comparing a lot of lemmy apps made me finally take the plunge: https://lemmy.world/post/18159531
You could try emailing. If enough people do maybe he’ll pay attention.
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.
