And 50% of the posts on lemmy in the last 12 hours are about Sync.
Hope we get some more diverse content soon lol
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And 50% of the posts on lemmy in the last 12 hours are about Sync.
Hope we get some more diverse content soon lol
The hilarious thing is you can't post from Sync yet, only comment, so for every post about Sync someone had to use their browser or another app to post it.
Yeah im honestly starting to question if its all organic, as its trivially easy to artificially inflate posts, and we even had a post the other week warning exactly of app developers could manipulate votes to get more people to use their platform and make purchases.
today was the first time I forgot if I was browsing reddit or lemmy. its so good to be back on sync
It feels good to be back to normal. Balance is restored.
Same, regardless of the "BuT iTs nOt FoSs" cries. You are free to use whatever app you want.
I definitely prefer FOSS, but hey if it gets you on the fedi, go for it.
Sync is great. Lemmy is still lacking content. Shows I watch, bands, etc.. those communities have no activity (if they even exist).
Sync is doing fine but I honestly don't understand the hype.
There is a dozen apps out there since the reddit migration with some having nearly the same features but without ads, without subscriptions and regular updates ever since.
Off the top of my head: Voyager, Summit, Connect, Thunder, Liftoff.
I keep hearing people mention all of these apps, and I've tried most of them (I'm on Android, and besides Sync, I currently have Liftoff, Connect and Thunder installed; I had Jerboa and the Voyager PWA, but removed the former due to bugs and the latter due to slow startup).
Honestly, none of them feel as polished as Sync. They do offer pretty much the same functionality, sometimes even better, but the UI and UX of Sync is just smoother.
Maybe it's just that I'm used to Sync after using it for reddit for many years, but in any case I thought I'd put this out there in case others were feeling puzzled as I was from all the mentions of other apps suggesting they can replace Sync without any quality loss. Sure, maybe not functionality-wise, but to me the user experience is just as important.
Edit: for reference, here's an album of screenshots comparing the same views in Sync, Liftoff, Connect and Thunder (yeah, I'm a fan of the compact list view): https://imgur.com/a/MvawTYm β there are pros and cons to all of these, but IMO the sync experience is the one with the best design and UX polish. Happy to hear your thoughts, though!
This x1000
I tried basically every app going on Android and they are all either buggy as fuck, unintuitive or janky in some other way. The user experience was just horrible.
I really do not understand all the people claiming Sync has an equivalent. It just does not right now in terms of a polished user experience.
Honestly it's just Linux vs Windows kinda situation to me. No matter how many nerds tell me Linux can do everything the same and is more customisable and better, it's just a worse user experience. Windows is far more intuitive and polished and there is a reason it has the market share it does.
Honestly because IMO no other app compares to it in terms of polish, UX and smoothness; that's not just out of lemmy apps either that's phone apps in general.
And tbh that shouldn't be too surprising, It's got 10 years of development behind it and the dev works on it full timeβno other lemmy app has that currently
Some of us have been using Sync cor 10+ years, we're not exactly looking for something new
Sync is already the most visually and ergonomically polished by far. That's not all that matters, but it's very important for me and many others.
For me it's the force of habit. I'm already used to the UI, I know where everything is, what to expect, I can navigate it very quickly and set it exactly how I want.
All the features I'm used to like comment drafts or the comment navigation bar (jump between top-level comments easily) are right where I'm used to. Doing the Android "back" gesture from the left works like it should, I don't have to confirm exit with a button, all these small things.
It's also very polished, for example I encountered two issues with Connect:
it didn't handle internet dropping out (e.g. temporary loss of mobile signal) well - it just kept failing on the retry button even after connectivity was restored, had to restart it
the search in the sidebar didn't show all the matching communities, this seems to have improved recently
Every single one of those apps except Summit and Voyager has janky scrolling, which is easy to notice on a 90Hz screen.
Sync has not dropped a single frame since my install on all my devices.
You guys have high requirements :)
But I agree, fantastic app. I think second best app is Liftoff though, it's a bit cleaner since it doesn't have a billion options.
Sync is like the professional choice in clients
Maybe I'm alone facing this, but I tried a few apps and the website itself - I was finding the interface very unintuitive and confusing
It has sooo many options, it could be a good idea to hide some of them behind an Advanced menu. That way the user interface still looks clean but power users can customize.
This is my first post too! :)
Now you are counted as an active user on Lemmy. :)
The app is beautiful. Former rif user and decided to give Sync for Lemmy a try and I'm not disappointed.
Yeah it's pretty great. I've actually got to watch myself because I could see myself getting hooked in an unhealthy way like I did to reddit in the bad old days.
This is honestly a great experience, the app has integrated with my instance perfectly. Impressive work!
Used Sync for Reddit for 7 or 8 years, this feels like home!
Personally I was a Boost fan and I'm excited for its release for lemmy. But I'm using sync in the meantime and absolutely loving it. There's a smoothness to this app, a refinement if you will that I couldn't find on any of the other apps. The level of customization to make my feed my own.
Same, it's now understandable and makes sense to my pea brain
Amazing app. Hopefully kbin support arrives soon.
From what I've read that all hinges on kbin making an API available for use first
Exactly this.
I was using wefwef.app and liked the colored bars on the left when several users replied to each other. Now in sync these bars are the same color. Can I change this?
You can link to settings?!
I'm loving people's reactions Everytime this pops up.
this is the coolest thing i ever saw
For some reason all apps + web refuse to show me my comment people are replying to, even when pressing the "view context" button.
Sync does.
I don't know why all of the other apps + web decided to break on me a week ago, but the only way I can reply to comments right now is because of Sync. Anyone else having this issue?
I've been using lemm.ee but this is a million times more enjoyable. I purchased Reddit Sync for Android years ago but I'm going to give the free version a spin and see about subscribing.
Sooooooo good.
So what does sync do that lemmy on broswer doesn't?
Aside from the polish, it's also the familiar UX that many of us have used for a decade. It just feels familiar & right now!
Most of us are here because we used Sync for Reddit for years and want that familiar UX.
A far more polished experience