2w ago

He has abandoned sync development but not the business

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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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I'm enjoying Summit as my Sync replacement.
- 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.
  
  Also that you can't single tap to close pictures if they're zoomed

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 ?
- I tried Thunder but never vibed with personally. The by far best app for me after giving up on Sync was Summit. Which also, if you're annoyed with ljdawson's absence the Summit dev is like the polar opposite.
  
  👋
- After testing a lot, I switched to Summit, it's been great.
  
  I'll second summit. Been using it for about 6 months or so. The app gets updated regularly and the dev is active.
- swipe to upvote / downvote / etc instead
  It's just gonna take some getting used to
- 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.
  
  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
- Enable the option to show the action buttons: Thunder Setting: Comments > General > Show Comment Action Buttons
  
  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 ?
  
  Thanks friend, i also just switched from sync to thunder, and this was my biggest gripe. Appreciate you xoxo
- I recommend Voyager. Also has an app. Same feature set as sync. Also with hide item on scroll.
  
  Will give it a try too
- I've been enjoying Summit! It does piefed too!

I moved to summit and really like it as a sync replacement. The developer is super responsive and consistently updates the app
- I'll give summit a try, thanks

Thunder, eh? First o heard of it! Thanks

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

Wait what? Mine just renewed!
- 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.
  
  Man. I work in IT and I've officially reached the point that keeping up with any 1 single thing just enough to not get effed up by something is an impossibility.

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.

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).

holy fuck thats a long ass domain lmao

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.

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.

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.

This may be being done by an accountant or other rep.
- This is actually true. If you follow the links on company house website from the OP, the accounts are getting maintained by an accountancy firm.
- I'm sorry you're getting downvoted. People don't like it when you show them there is shades of grey in any argument, they just want to get outraged simply.

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