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submitted 3 weeks ago by Classy@sh.itjust.works to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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I've been using Sync for at least three years, and I've been a vocal advocate of the app, but I don't feel right paying for ad free anymore.

I am unable to transfer my paid account to my new phone and yet Google continues to take out my $2.13 every month. I understand everyone needs time away sometimes but I don't see how LJD feels right accepting people's money while providing ZERO support for months on end, and never bothering to at least appoint a maintainer in his absence.

I see issues piling up with this app and I'm forced to look at ads while LJD does whatever he wants and takes my money. I feel stupid that I've been paying this man for years to provide a good experience just to be taken for a ride like this.

I had bought the lifetime pro back in the Reddit days, I paid for pro subscription while using Lemmy, and at this point I'm just done. I hate writing this post because I've been a happy, continual premium user of this app for literally years, but there's only so much I can handle.

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[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 26 points 3 weeks ago

There's so many good options now: Eternity, Raccoon, Voyager, Jerboa, I'd give the competition a look and donate to the one you settle on.

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 15 points 3 weeks ago

Checking in from Voyager. The waters great over here - come join us!

[-] calamitycastle@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

What I find quite interesting is that sync is obviously very feature rich, it's why it was many people's preferred client.

I just downloaded a few of the others and here's a few things:

you can set different sort methods based on view. This feels important at the moment when communities are smaller. I have my subs set to New but Instance and All to something else
feed view customisations are super deep. Nice to have obviously but this is where all the inherited value from the old reddit app is
gesture navigation still feels better than all others but I might be biased because I'm used to it

However, it's undeniable that there are still some basic things it doesn't handle perfectly. At the moment the perks outweigh the missing bits for me, BUT I found the pricing at launch to be optimistic at best, so like another commenter, I'm using the free version and blocking ads via Blokada and I'm happy enough

It would be great if it did everything perfectly I agree but that's true for all the apps rn