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
    111·
    1 day 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
      81·
      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.

      • bert@lemmy.monsterEnglish
        5·
        2 days 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?

          • bert@lemmy.monsterEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            Hmm, maybe I need to take another look through my settings (or perhaps I didn’t clearly enunciate my issue), because when I click a thumbnail in my main feed it opens the link, rather than a larger version of the image.

            I miss Sync for that singular feature of press+holehold on a thumbnail in the feed to show a full size image of said thumbnail.

            • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              That happens for me for any link that can’t be handled in Voyager, but I think when it comes to images the thumbnail doesnt load either…

              Out of curiosity, is it maybe your instance and how its caching? Have you tried other instances? Let me grab a random post that works for me as an example.

              https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37713149 works for me for reference. Tap and right to fill screen.

              Edit: BTW, tapping these images will also go full screen. Not sure if you have that issue with embedded so figured I’d mention.

              • RememberTheEnding@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                2·
                1 day ago

                https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21931444

                This post is a link to an image rather than an image uploaded to an instance like the one you linked - in sync, you can just press the thumbnail to see it full screen (not at full resolution, but high enough). Voyager correctly loads the thumbnail, but I don’t see a way to expand the image without opening the webpage.

                I assume that’s what they’re talking about. I’d also like the same…

    • Lizardking13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days 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.

    • Lizardking13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days 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.

  • Twig@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    28·
    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
      162·
      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
    152·
    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
    112·
    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.