UhBellI don't need it... đź‘€
DepressedCoconutYou don’t. It’s bad. Stop with the fomo.
Why? Used sync for Reddit for 14 years, was the only way I would use Reddit. He dev is amazing, and I will always support his apps paying for the subscription. He works hard and created an amazing app. Genuinely interested why you believe it’s bad? It is only in beta fyi.
A_Toasty_StrudelAs far as I’m concerned this beta feels great. I switched from Jerboa almost instantly once I saw how smooth and feature rich everything was on Sync.
Kit SorensNoooo! How DARE you taint my FOSS environment with options for a subscription-incentive-driven UX! You’re basically inviting FAANG to walk all over us! /s
I thought nerds liked MANGA.
I’m a furry, not a weeb.
It’s not though, is it?
chrizbieWell we are spoiled for choice none the less
More apps = more lemmings
This. It’s not for me. But I’m glad it exists.
Actually I’ve been using Jerboa for long enough that I’ve really gotten used to it and I love it now, super functional
It’s functional for sure, but the scrolling feels so janky
bquintbI’m really enjoying Thunder. Love the comment screen
Thunder has been my main app for a while but Sync just works so well. Also seems to be less battery intensive.
I was on the fence because I didn’t need the subscription features, but instantly bought the ad free IAP for $12.99 as soon as it was added. It still seems a bit steep for an app, but it’s one-time, and supports the Dev (whose Reddit app I used for years) so I didn’t really mind.
It’s nearly AUD $35 in my country. Pretty steep, and the full functionality isn’t quite there yet. (Can’t post, limited search etc)
If it goes on sale it’ll be an insta-buy, but the price right now is kinda high.
Same price in Canada
Yeah one of the biggest things missing, for me, is notifications. I’ve also seen others report astronomical prices outside of the US, way more than I would be willing to spend (especially with this being beta and all) so I completely understand
linearchaosI’m willing to give a lot of leeway these days for single purchase pricing. Everybody in their freaking brother is going on the subscription model. These people are asking for one year worth of subscription price upfront and lifetime access to an app I am all about it.
MentalEdgeThe team is looking into optimizations to try and smooth out some of the jank that’s still present in places. Should reduce CPU and battery use as well.
I’m on Jerboa and downloaded/installed sync yesterday. As a former RIF user, I don’t have a horse in this race. I am more familiar with Jerboa, but find the overall feel of both (admittedly, without a lot of use, to be pretty comparable).
That said, I kind of like some of the ideas in Jerboa more? For example, tap to minimize comments and their children on Jerboa is quite a bit faster. I’m kind of sad that both make selecting some of the text in a comment hard and miss the RIF collapse/expand button. Jerboa also matches the font size of everything else in my UI better than Sync. For example, the font size of this reply and my keyboard are the same in Jerboa. In Sync the in-app font size is quite a bit smaller.
At the end of the day, I think that both apps are going to be largely comparable for a fairly casual user like me. I bet both offer more functionality than I’m using, but so far I don’t feel like I’m missing anything.
I no longer have an Android so idk how the new Sync is, but the version for Reddit was extremely customizable and did have option to disable tap to minimize and give you a button instead. I used Sync daily for nearly 10 years and it’s by far the best experience I’ve had
Thanks for the info, I will have to dig for that option. Part of the reason why I asked to see what I was missing :)
Black_GulamanAsk for a settings link in their community. That way you won’t have to blindly search the settings.
steboMy horse is Boost but that one is still in its starting gate unfortunately…
During my reddit days I used boost and sync interchangeably. Because they’re so similar. But the last app I used before leaving reddit was boost.
Now I’m using Voyager and infinity. I have arctius but it gets less usage.
I also install and cycle through all the available android apps. And so far amongst the non reddit apps. Connect and lift off were the best, summit is nearly there, thunder can surpass summit of the slow loading and browsing problem is resolved.
Just an FYI, you can change the “tap to minimize comments and their children” faster in the settings for sync. Same with font size
That’s what I like about sync the most, you can customize it to a T.
Thanks, will have to customize both and a/b it for a while.
Jerboa also matches the font size of everything else in my UI better
This has been my biggest annoyance in all the apps I’ve tried so far, I’m using thunder at the moment and it’s extra large font is juuust big enough, but still way too small to be called extra large.
Quite a few of the others don’t even have that though, liftoff was terrible for it with no option to change it and Jerboa is easily the best in this regard but with it scaled up to match my UI it’s a too much scrolling and weird formatting.
Can’t wait for Boost, it was my reddit go to for years simply because of all it’s toggles, I could customize pretty much every part of the UI. Which is probably why it’s taking a while to come out, there was quite a bit more to it than pretty much any other of the alternatives.
More font options incoming on Thunder. Not sure about more sizes, but the sizing options are still being worked on so maybe make a feature request?
Annoyed_🦀 Yeah, the font is the one that get me, but at least i can adjust that. But when typing comment the font is just too big for my liking, making it feel so claustrophobic.
Another minor complain is not having instance name beside displayed username and community name, and not support custom community name, and so on. But other than that? This is awesome.
I do hope all app dev moving toward the feature offered by Lemmy UI though, all the app i tried really just wanna make a reddit 2.
MiddleWeighI used jerboa for last few months, but I got sync the other day, and it is very smooth but I’m really missing certain things from jerboa I found super intuitive. Also in sync I can’t seem to highlight, copy, paste from a posted comment…perhaps that’s a paid feature only? Also no post creation is kinda lame, and I hope that is not behind a pay wall too. …I don’t mind paying guy for his work, but I can’t afford it.
I was also a RiF user (:
st33foShould be this option when you tap a comment and hit the triple dot button.
In RIF you could tap-hold on the text to select it since they had a dedicated button for collapse.
There is a setting to select text on long press on Sync.
Sync is extremely customizable.
Yeah that option is only available for posts on sync unfortunately.
But a neato system wide thing with Android is now you can use recents to select text on any app. It’s so convenient.
I honestly couldn’t stand Jerboa back when I used it so for me it’s nothing like sync (which is my favourite app so far even on the free version), but maybe Jerboa has improved since I left.
NoraIt was definitely buggy as hell if thats what you mean. But yeah it’s improved and I don’t have issues with anything anymore.
twelve20two Former RIF user + current Jerboa user, too. I’m happy so far. I’m also very casual/waaaay less tech knowledgeable than most other people on the platform
You know it feels good
Love Connect
I was starting to think I was the only one. This is the first I’ve seen someone else mention it.
kamenladyI think it’s because it’s kind of irrelevant to the discussion.
Connect:
- is completely free - no ads
- but not FOSS
It’s never going to be featured in general FOSS Team depictions or discussions.
Me too, but for some reason it makes my phone run hot
It’s my new RiF.
MattI tried Sync for a little bit, but I didn’t really vibe with it to be honest, Infinity is still by far my favourite phone client.
Really, you should just download it anyway and try it, you’ll find out quickly if it’s for you or not.
It’s really like reddit clients, there is no single “best” choice, because everyone has different preferences. There were some reddit clients that people swore by and raved about that I absolutely hated, and others that I loved that no one else used.
More choices is never a bad thing
True that. Meanwhile us app hoarders are having a party collecting them.
Connect: Am I a joke to you?
All these shit posts are fun, but why is connect a red haired step child all the time?
Any legit arguments against it? Has room for improvement, but it’s the best I’ve found thus far.
The only thing I didn’t like about connect was for image loading. When I click on an image it is blurry and comes to clarity. Loading is an issue. I don’t know if there is any settings for it inside the app. Whereas in sync it loads perfectly fine for me.
Not Foss.
Once Boost for Lemmy releases, inject it straight in my veins
How will users welcome it though. I kind of want to see. Will it also get a Sync reception? Will lemmy have double standards? Let’s see what u/mayayo will do.
I use summit. Its great!
How many of these are for Android?
AndreyAsimowAll of them
That can’t be it. I’m seeing “liftoff” and that’s an ios app.