Brilliant, my friend. Thank you for your hard work.
I'm going to throw this link here for you to check out. It's a table comparing Mastodon apps which already has a big ecosystem on the Fediverse. Maybe you can find some inspiration. :)
Try Liftoff until Sync is ready - it's much smoother than Jerboa.
Just be mindful of the default 'All' view is literally all of the lemmyverse - via that view you can't interact with instances that you aren't logged on in.
Honestly I have mixed results and opinions with both Jerboa and Liftoff... Liftoff, for example, wouldn't even load a GIF that I posted when Jerboa would.
They currently also both randomly crash on me but I think that's most likely related to lemmy.world not being on version 0.18+ yet.
I just switched from connect to Liftoff. I am liking Liftoff better. Looks nice and I like that comments collapse with one tap, and up/down vote arrows and the reply button are all shown in the comments as a default (rather than having to tap or swipe to see the arrows).
Liftoff also has better formatting options. Here are a few screenshots:
I switched from Jerboa to Liftoff after every singe update they introduce breaks something new and they don't fix existing issues. My current biggest issues with Liftoff is the very un-smooth scrolling, that hard-coded bright blue, and that you can change font size for headers and sub-headers, but not general text. I'd like it to be 1-2 notches larger, on a phone with large display it's getting a bit small.
agreed, this is great. Updates keep flowing. A visual separator between posts in amoled mode would be nice but its excellent. Devs should start charging for these already. At least in the settings you can 'buymeacoffee' for connect.
Connect is great. It can hide read posts. But I miss Syncs feature to swipe to hide. That was the killer feature that made me stay with Sync for reddit.
As so many others have said, their app of choice WAS Reddit, and Sync was Reddit for me. There's some good Lemmy apps out there, but my muscle memory misses Sync!
Care to recommend some of the best lemmy apps, according to your experience? So far my favorites are liftoff and connect. Until sync comes out, that is! 😄
Nothing happens when i press the 'Subscribe' button after writing in my e-mail address. Might be on my side the problem is. Have tried on 2 web browsers on my computer
I just want to mention that your signup submission endpoint syncapps.us14.list-manage.com is being blocked by Firefox's enhanced tracking protection. If anyone having trouble with signup, try temporarily disabling adblocker or tracking protection.
Hell yeah! Sync is the reason I joined the fediverse when I heard you're making an app. Been a loyal user of your reddit apps since the beginning, there is no comparison it was the best! Can't wait to see how this project matures. So far, seems to be much better than other social platforms simply because it's decentralized and all the benefits that brings. Things are looking promising and I, for one, don't miss reddit at all!
That's really shitty man, lots of people use Reddit primarily on browser but nowhere does that suggest those users don't know what the fuck is going on...
You don't have to use the third party apps to know what reddit is doing is fucked up. I never used a third party app, nor did I use a moderation bot. Not to mention people could never have used Reddit before and still use lemmy
A lot of people learned about third party apps from the protests, and knowing how shitty a thing Reddit was doing decided to stand in solidarity and quit Reddit with us.
So please, no need to sound so condescending, it's pretty obvious what's happened here and they clearly do know. Otherwise they wouldn't be here.
What a trip! I was originally sad because I just uninstalled Sync for Reddit today only to join Lemmy and find out my favorite client is coming to Lemmy! Thanks so much!
I'm just hijacking this top comment to declare I've finally decided what I'm doing with my Reddit account. Instead of deleting it or overwriting it with junk, I'm going to change my password, and post my account credentials around the place on Reddit so some spambot can use my high karma account for whatever the fuck.
If anyone else wants to join in I think it will be very hard for the site admins to squash such activity and actively turn the site to shit.
I also mod a few tiny communities so good fucking luck.
I was a paid user since the early days. I think Sync has been very generous with its pricing and extra features and would like to see it continue. Wish you the best of luck!
Thank you so much LJ, not just for the last 10 years of Sync on Reddit, but in advance for all the amazing stuff you'll be doing here on Lemmy as well! Hearing this news made me finally make the switch and get onto Lemmy.
Looking forward to it. Longtime Sync user here and I'll be happy to throw a couple dollars your way for it, too. My only hope is that lemmy picks up a bit more; maybe Sync users will switch over and make it a more active place.
I think the only other one I was excited for and signed up for immediately was the Windows Longhorn beta. It's a shame they scrapped it and pumped out Vista instead
You must have something else going on. I'm on Brave and the site works fine. Even turning Brave up to the highest block settings and hard refreshing still has it working for me.
This is great news. I'd have quit Reddit years ago if it hadn't been for sync. Please let us know if you need beta testers, as I'm sure I'll not the only one who can't wait for this!
I see I rated Sync for Reddit Pro 5 stars in the play store back in 2015, and it had definately been my favorite app since then. Thanks for all your hard work throughout the years.
I cannot wait! I'll follow you anywhere LJ! While you're working on Sync, I guess I'll try to get used to everything and build out my profile and all that jazz.
Psst, anyone, quick! Where are all the cat communities!???!
For those having issues getting the email form to:
Show up at all
Submit once/if it is showing up
Disable your ad and tracker blockers for syncapps.io.
iFor me, AdGuard was blocking the form from showing up at all. Then, in Firefox, dev tools showed that the tracker tool was stopping the form from submitting. Once I disabled both things for the site, I was (hopefully) able to get it submitted. I got the "Thanks for signing up" notification on the site, anyway. I'm not sure if I was supposed to receive a confirmation email, so I'm just hopeful it worked.
Nice. Second (whatever we call subs/channels in lemmy) signed up for.
Going to go straight for max pro bleeding edge beta demo for life version, rather than wait as long as I did with Sync.
Looking forward to pop-out subscription nav, floating action buttons, and ultra compact style options, and whatever other QOL improvements you have planned @[email protected]
Sync was a popular 3rd party app for Reddit. With the change in Reddit TOS that prevents 3rd party apps from accessing the site the Dev is making a new app with the same name for Lemmy
It’s used to be Sync for Reddit, which was one of the biggest android Reddit apps. The dev is now building a version for Lemmy. This was posted in the sync for Lemmy community, so context for the people in this community is already there, I assume you’re coming from All so it’s more on you to figure out what it is than for the dev to post about what it is again when the people in this community that the post is meant for already know
Shame we have to wait for that, but I guess if the site literally doesn't have an API yet, its not up to him. I've been using kbin more for some reason, don't even know why.
Let's see where this goes. Most communities I switched over from Reddit to Lemmy are quite small at the moment, but with nice apps I imagine it will only grow.
Any chance you'd allow different billing than Google Play? I don't have Google Play Services and that's the reason I had to switch from Sync for Reddit.
If anybody has issues with not seeing the subscribe button when using your desktop browser, try disabling uBlock Origin or other ad-blocker. That made it appear for me.
Update: other comments say Firefox is the problem. It worked in Bromite.
The sign up doesn't appear to work for me. I enter my email, click the green Signup button, and nothing appears to happen. No "thank you" page. No apparent click to the button. Nothing.
I'll hear about the first version here, I'm sure, but I'd also like to sign up.
This is exciting, can't wait for the first builds to drop. Do you plan on running a beta program or something of the like? I'd be interested in being a tester if you are going to be looking for those.
I hope the old ui customisations will be available, would be great.
I'm also wondering what will be done about lemmy's wierdness about subscribing to subs, where you need to search up the sub on your instance etc.
Even sharing the comment discussions is useless if the recipient isn't already from the instance (probably are but many won't be obvs), the site won't let them comment unless they find the discussion mirrors on their own instance. So how will sync for lemmy deal with these eccentricities (that lemmy devs are also obvs going to deal with in the future)??