Let’s face it: the app has been abandoned for longer than is acceptable, especially at this price level. It’s no longer working correctly on newer Lemmy versions, and there’s no indication the dev is still active.

Yes, he worked similarly during Reddit times, but a) Sync was much cheaper back then, and b) Reddit didn’t change as much.

Right now, to unsuspecting users Sync seems great given the 4.9 star rating on the Play Store. They’ll possibly buy this app before noticing that it’s subtly broken.

Please consider giving Sync a bad rating, but if you do so, explain why. Write about the broken functionality, so others don’t fall into the same trap.

  • Twig@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    21 days ago

    I haven’t had any real problems with it recently. What doesn’t work and what are the best alternatives?

    • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Have you not had any issues with all the comments of a thread being missing? About 30-40% of the time I open comments where it says there are anywhere between 3 and 20 comments just to find no comments. I open the thread in browser and all the comments are there. I’m having to constantly bounce between sync and Firefox just to read comments.

      And no it has nothing to do with the selected languages, I tried selecting all languages in my settings and it makes no difference. Additionally, the same users whose comments are missing show up fine in other posts, and the bug affects the entire thread regardless of user, no comments are visible in the bugged threads.

      • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I have had that happen a few times but they appear after dragging down to refresh. I just figured my internet connection was being wonky.

        • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Hmm that must be something different then, I can refresh a bunch and it will finish loading in under 1 second (so it doesn’t seem like it’s timing out or it would take several seconds at least) and it will just say “There are no comments”, even though the comment count will show comments. I can go to any other thread and see comments and go back and the bugged threads stay empty.

    • Lizardking13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      21 days ago

      Any of these have similar gesture based navigation as sync? That’s my favorite thing about it. I Just tried Voyager and it’s alright, but I dislike the navigation.

  • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    21 days ago

    #why

    I like the app, been with it for years, and I trust the dev. I get it. In his position I would unfortunately probably do the same.

    And he actually showed up recently so something is in the works.

      • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        20 days ago

        DM re: my bug report. Not public so I wasn’t going to say anything until I saw the panic here.

        • drawerair@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 day ago

          He can post here and on another platform (like Instagram) so the users won’t think of switching.