Reminder: Please give Sync a bad rating on the Playstore (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by FooBarrington@lemmy.world to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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I already made this post a year ago, and indeed: Sync has been left to die, and we have been scammed.

Please give Sync a bad rating so unsuspecting users don't use, or even worse buy, an abandoned app.

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[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Still using sync daily lol, am I missing out on features of other clients? Any ones with as good of design as sync?

[-] dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Summit for Lemmy is the closest feature-wise and is updated super regularly. Amazing dev

[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

I started off on Sync, used it on Reddit, paid for it. Was so happy to hear when he was supporting Lemmy and paid for it again.

Sadly since then I have switched to Voyager after a few times went by with no updates. Hope he’s okay, but a little communication would have gone a long way.

[-] BangCrash@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I think the whole Reddit thing destroyed him.

He was super passionate about sync for Reddit but lost all interest after the great Reddit rug pull

[-] nathan@lemmy.permisuan.com 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah this sucks. Loved the dev and the app back on reddit. I paid to remove ads and never had another update. Fucking sucks. I wish he would at least say something!

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Done

I switched to boost a year or so ago and have been happy with it

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Boost is a great option! I've personally switched to Summit, but we're really lucky to have many great app options available on Android.

[-] hateisreality@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

What exactly is so bad about sync and what makes the others better? I'm not trying to be a jackass I've heard this before but I've never really understood it. I started on a couple of apps like I think probably jerboa and Voyager when they first came out and they were kind of buggy. Sync came out and it worked better than the others.

So what am I being a fool about please educate me, are we just giving it bad reviews cuz it's not updated and seemingly poor as hell communication by the creator?

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The Lemmy API has started to change, causing some features to not properly work anymore (e.g. Marking as Read hasn't been properly working for months) and some content to become inaccessible (some posts and some comments just don't load anymore, especially noticeable with "error 17").

That's not to mention that new features simply won't be available, e.g. all the new stuff mentioned in the last release notes.