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So... is Sync abandoned? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by jeze3D@lemmy.ml to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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I get it. Being a dev is hard. Sometimes you need a break.

However it takes a few seconds for LJ to pop in and say "all is well everyone I'll be back soon!" Like, Mr. Dawson, just copy and paste that sentence and everything would be fine.

I'm irritated because the man is selling a relatively expensive app that even has a $100 purchase option and disappeared for months on end with complete silence. I think if you're selling an app with these kind of price points it's important to reassure your community it's not abandoned by simply acknowledging your existence once a month.

It's especially important on the fediverse where projects are abandoned frequently with little fanfare. The difference being most of these projects are donated time without a ticket price. Can we PLEASE get something here, LJ? Especially for us $100 patrons as to not feel duped? Even if you just say, "yeah I'm done, sorry" I'd appreciate it. As it stands Sync has broken features and bugs galore so I've already moved on to Boost, but I'd be very happy to hear things will either be A) fixed soon or B) abandoned so I can just uninstall sync from my phone.

Thank you.

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[–] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What critical bugs are we having right now?

[–] jeze3D@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

No in app scaled sort feature (which is one of lemmy's best updates yet) and the "Instances" button on the home feed that lets you change instance locations is entirely broken. There are quite a few other bugs listed on this community feed that have yet to be addressed.

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For me it's between scaled sort and being able to view webms without opening in external browser (though if you set scaled sort on the web it'll get selected in app as long as you don't change it)

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I can view webms, just can't share them. 🫤 Wondering if that's a bug of the app being shared with though.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Crash to launcher if Sync settings are set to hide username. No a huge deal, but still quite annoying to set everything back up from scratch if you didn't backup first.

[–] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yep. I encountered this. My workaround was to use old apk and to unhide username and then update to new version. There's another suggestion to use intent which is ~~a bit technical but~~ less hassle.

[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

I actually used Sync's link handler (went to lemmy on FireFox and open a link in Sync using the share menu) then I could change the setting from there. So I didn't have to recreate my profiles.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

For me, pressing the hamburger menu while in landscape crashes the app. Other stuff is also broken in landscape but I haven't had a chance to experiment. Probably some odd collection of settings causing it.