He has abandoned sync development but not the business (find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk)
 

I like many among you loved sync and am frustrated with the bugs and lack of updates. It seems LJ has all but abandoned the app, so I did some looking around on the business of sync apps Ltd and can see from public records in the UK that he is keeping the business up to date. So it seems he is fine with collecting passive income from ad revenue.

@ljdawson@lemmy.world please just open source this app so the community can fix these bugs.

I myself have moved to thunder, very similar UX, lots of customization, and it's open source.

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[–] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm enjoying Summit as my Sync replacement.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I am also on summit. Only thing I hate is that I set one tap to open content but there is no one tap for videos so they always open inline with half the video off screen then I hit back to exit and it refreshes my view losing my place. Ill get there once I beat this muscle memory.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I moved to summit and really like it as a sync replacement. The developer is super responsive and consistently updates the app

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Thunder, eh? First o heard of it! Thanks

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Used to swear by Sync but moved to Thunder too. Can't really justify spending money on Sync imo

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    I've just installed thunder.

    Pros setup was super easy although it initially said my instance didnt exist then suddenly found it

    Cons Long pressing a comment and getting an overlay popup in order to upvote a comment is very annoying

    I'll leave it installed but its not for me right now.

    Has anyone found anything else good ?

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A lot of the long/short press stuff is configurable and gesture based (swiping left and right) is the fast way to interact. Which I was using the swiping on sync. Also configurable.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    OK so that works but is awfully clunky - swipe partway right to upvote and fully right to downvote as opposed to tapping on the up / down arrow.

    Yeah if that's not configurable I'm out. And I'm damned if I can work out where to configure it

    EDIT

    OK, it's settings, appearance, comments, show comments action buttons.

    With that usability hurdle cleared, OK, I'll give it a burl

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    OK maybe I'm thick but that's not what I see on my menu - I'm on android in case there's an ios thing happening here.

    From the main screen there's 5 buttons along the bottom - right hand one is settings.

    There is no comment option listed. If I go to general then there is a comment subsection (opposite order to above) but it only has comment sort, hide parent, enable comment navigation and combine fab & nav buttons.

    So is it one of the last two I need to change ?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm on Android, too. I copied the link to the setting but it does indeed have the wrong text. No idea why and sorry about that!

    Clicking on the link in my comment using Thunder should let you jump straight to the setting.

    If that doesn't work, it's in Appearance, then Comments.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Wait what? Mine just renewed!

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  • [–] [S] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Right he's still taking in funds just not patching the app. That's the point of this post, the business is still active despite development being halted.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I've moved to Boost a long time ago. It was pretty clear that he doesn't care about the app because he regularly abandoned it. This time it's just forever it seems.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    holy fuck thats a long ass domain lmao

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I hesitated for a long time before financially supporting a truly amazing app, though way overpriced. I’m broke, so I don’t regret a thing. In fact, I’m happy to block his ads with a custom DNS to cut off funding to this greedy bastard. The least he could do is give paying users an update on what’s actually happening with their money.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I've been getting more and more disappointed and this post is really good timing. I'm going to switch to summit based on some helpful comments here.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Looking at the Thunder app and it does look similar as far as phone screen is concerned. But does it have the multi column view on a larger screen like Sync? That is basically the one major thing I haven't found in other apps I have tried, both for reddit and Lemmy and is nice for subs that are more image based. I still use a patched version for moments where reddit is still needed (not very often these days but much nicer than the site).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I think it's time for us to move on. I been with sync since the reddit days but I think the end is here.

    Voyager, Boost and Summit and many others are all decent. While I don't think they are direct replacements for Sync, they get the job done and have even added Piefed support.

    It may be time to let go and accept that this app has been abandoned without any communication.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Folks you don't have to use or pay for the app. If you don't like it: cancel and move on with your lives.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This may be being done by an accountant or other rep.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I don't use the app, but why doesn't someone send some mail to the physical address?

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