andrr_464It was 15 euros earlier today, what happened?
RxBradJust saying…
I get that there’s inflation and all… but there are no Imgur API fees to deal with like there were with Reddit (images upload right to the Lemmy instance).
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I assume you mean lemmy, right?
Lol. I haven’t had my coffee yet.
To be fair, you paid once 7 years ago but the developer didn’t stop working on the app and didn’t make you pay for the upgrades they implemented if anything they have discovered the original price was too low for long term use.
I paid a similar price to that over a decade ago and don’t consider this price to be totally unreasonable given they are full time on this now and will need to keep updating the app as lemmy gets updated.
We also have so many alternatives that it isn’t an issue if people want to use something that is free. We are in the wild west of lemmy apps due to the Reddit fallout, things will quieten down eventually and a preferred few apps will come out on top.
But also, the dev gets to double dip now on people who’d have never paid if Reddit hadn’t done what they did. So, bonus cash.
And this double-dip is now 4-5x the price of the first hit.
I mean, it is what it is. I’m probably sitting it out until a sale, at the very least…
kenblu24I paid the $30 for Lifetime Ultra after 7 years of using Dev/Pro just to support. But this new pricing is simply insane. I get the feeling LJ quit his day job to rush Sync for Lemmy out or something, because historically he never seemed to do this kind of thing.
SpaceCadetI get that there’s inflation and all
$3.99 in 2016 adjusted for inflation would be $5.07 today.
Phuntisthat’s us inflation maybe but LJ lives in the UK and I can tell you it’s a lot worse than that for us the bank of England says a certain inflation rate that isn’t that high but it feels like the cost of everything including food has at least tripled over the last year or two maybe more sync at its end was a fiver and hadn’t gone up in a few years so if you triple that you get 15 which yeah is below 20 by a quarter but S4R lasted 10 years before it died only cause of reddit I don’t think that’s a bad price to pay for a lifetime of adless sync sync is ljs job so it’s only natural the price is gonna go up with food going up this much 20 quid for 10 years or more of updates for an app I use constantly isn’t a bad deal
fristislurperPlease please please use punctuation.
ChaoticNeutralCzechI think you’re using bad speech-to-text software. There are alternatives with good “AI” auto-punctuation based on your tone of speech.
no I’m writing by hand I just hate punctuation
You never read any punctuation-free text by anyone else, did you?
I have read punctuation free text and it never bothered me it’s perfectly readable
Well, you used “us” and “us” close to one another, and one of them referred to the United States and the other was a pronoun. It took several reads to make sure I rewrote it correctly in my other comment. I am pretty sure you’re not being considerate about how “unambiguous” your sentences are without capitalisation & punctuation, and even if they were, they take significantly longer to read. As a person who became proficient in English as their second language, I am baffled by how frequently natives botch their national heritage.
I think they are using shitty speech-to-text software that does not do punctuation.
FTFY:
That’s US inflation, maybe – but LJ lives in the UK and I can tell you: it’s a lot worse than that for us. The Bank of England says a certain inflation rate that isn’t that high (like 30% over the last year) but that’s a lie. It feels like the cost of everything, including food, has at least tripled over the last year or two, maybe more. Sync at its end was £5 and hadn’t gone up in a few years, so if you triple that you get £15 – which, yeah, is below £20 by a quarter – but Sync4Reddit lasted 10 years before it died only ‘cause of Reddit. I don’t think that’s a bad price to pay for a lifetime of adless Sync. Sync is LJ’s job so it’s only natural the price is gonna go up with food going up this much. £20 for 10 years or more of updates for an app I use constantly isn’t a bad deal.
People in the UK can’t afford punctuation anymore
www.bankofengland.co.uk/…/inflation-calculator
£3.99 in 2016 would be £5.21 today, adjusted for inflation.
I mean you can argue about percentages and all, and how inflation isn’t measured realistically but there’s absolutely no way you can go from $3.99 to $20 using inflation as the reason.
You can use it but l ly sarcastically
redcalciumThe real reason is the development cost stay the same, but the pool of potential buyers is 100x less for Sync for Lemmy compared to Sync for Reddit. With only about 100,000 monthly active users on Lemmy, even if 1% of them bought the app at $20, the dev would only net about $14,000 (after 30% play store fee). The dev himself even said he’ll lower the price as the number of active Lemmy users grow.
I think a lot of the outrage is the people that used to use the app on Reddit but have been priced out by this strategy. It’s very disappointing and, if my time on Reddit has tought me anything, people are very quick to vent the frustrations by posting.
The healthy thing is to just find an option in the right price bracket, that’s how I found Voyager.
VoyajerAnd that included a few features that are now ultra only like tagging users. (and maybe more, that was the one I used and noticed is missing from pro now)
Has nothing to do with inflation but economies of scale, his userbase here will be a fraction of the reddit one.
And this is exactly why I paid for the app without thinking. I paid $1.99 for Reddit Sync in 2012 and have been using it since then. I consider buying the new app payment for all the value I’ve gotten out of the app and the developers work over the past 11 years.