I don’t know if this is just a placebo effect, but it feels like there’s a lot more socialization and faster upvotes in the past hour Sync was released.
I was trying to use connect but sync is just l… Better. It feels the way it should and makes interacting with Lemmy feel familiar. Long love the fediverse.
Same, I was on connect for a few weeks. Got sync today and I already like it better
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I’ll check Sync out if I ever start having issues with Thunder. Don’t know why it isn’t as popular as other apps.
I’m certainly using Lemmy more!
I didn’t particularly like any of the apps for Lemmy, while they all offered some of the features I wanted, none offered all in a single package.
That, coupled with the clunkyness and bugs that come along with the territory of new developers building something for the first time (which is not a knock against them), I just didn’t really enjoy trying to use Lemmy.
I’m mainly waiting for Boost, but I like to try the new Lemmy apps hoping to find a great one, and Sync is certainly the best so far, with a robust feature and settings set that does everything I need it to.
So that’s why I’m spending a little more time here now, I guess! Lemmy is only as good as the app that acts as it’s interface after all, and as the apps improve and become less of a chore to use, so will user retention.
I guess anything that will make Lemmy a viable alternative to Reddit is welcome.
I couldn’t stand the mobile web UI, but now it just feels like a younger, newer version of Reddit
I had problems posting comments on liftoff so I stopped contributing altogether.
Just using infinity for Lemmy, idk what’s all about that sync-hype. Infinity runs flawlessly.
People are happy because they can use an app again that they have used for up to 10 years.
The hype is because Sync was a long standing and well respected client for reddit, that is now available for Lemmy.
For many users this means they can finally try Lemmy through an interface they know from a dev they trust.
I don’t use Sync, or Infinity, but the more the merrier!
At least the experience scrolling through lemmy now is 100x better.
It’s night and day, Jerboa felt like an app from 2010
This. They were missing some key ease of access features like hide read posts
Sooooooo thankful that sync is up and running
Using web, going back always put the feed active, despite me changing the sort. So yeah, having the app back is good. And I got all my use patterns back!
I was missing Hide read sooo fucking much!
It does, at least auto-hide after seeing post media. Saw that in the settings. Very good offering overall.
Ah forget it, my bad. I must have been confusing apps, I was comparing a bunch earlier today. Sorry about that.
I don’t know about automatically but I have it on my actions. The three little dots in the top right you can bring up the menu and if hide read isn’t there you can hit the three dots again on that menu - action visibility, to add it. Can hold and drag the order of the actions too.
It’s nice to have an app that runs smoothly and doesn’t stutter or jitter while scrolling and navigating through lemmy.
I signed up for lemmy when Reddit started pulling it’s shit. But I didn’t really do anything here until today when sync informed me that the lemmy app was available.
I bet I’m not the only one.
This is exactly my case. Received the notification for the new Sync and I’ve been exploring for like 2 hours. Amazing
Nope, that’s why I’m here!
There are dozens of us. Dozens, I say! DOZENS!
I hadn’t created an account til today. I was going to just use sync for reddit with the revanced patch at first but I decided to just ghost reddit until this came out, and now I’m getting my sync fix again lol so far so good, besides there being a bit less content on lemmy vs reddit the experience so far it has been great. Plus, it feels like fewer bots, at least for now, so that’s also a major plus.
I’m using Jerboa, as I don’t want to use a closed source app with In App purchases and Google tracking. It’s nice there are so many options!
Man I really wanted to like Jerboa but it just has such terrible UX. I ended up signing up for Kbin.social as I thought it had the best UI and now I’m back to Lemmy through Sync.
Jerboa am the way. I used Sync before, but Jerboa had the perfect amount of customization with ease of use. I say that, but I feel hypocritical cause I’m currently testing Sync.
I’ve been using Jerboa and I like it other than when typing comments or posts. If you have to backspace it just completely shits it’s pants and ends up deleting things you don’t want, removing spaces between words, refusing to append text without removing words. I just want a normal typing experience.
The mobile browser version if lemmy is pretty good. But here I am now with Sync. I never used it for reddit (I was an Infinity fan), but it does seem pretty nice
Really? What kind of OS are you using? I haven’t had that issue on android.
Android. And I haven’t had issues like that with typing in anything ever. I’ll be backspacing a couple of chars and all of a sudden the words have been concatenated and trying to get a space back was so hard. I really can’t explain how bad it was, but it was definitely just Jerboa and not my keyboard or phone as its perfect for everything else.
My issue with Jerboa has been that it doesn’t register when I have copied things so it’s difficult to paste links/articles/quotes.
I might try out Sync so that I can contribute more informative responses, but I like the idea of Jerboa being open source as that’s what drew me to the app.
Jerboa has some good ideas and features, but it has sadly been consistently the most buggy out of all the clients I’ve tried, across updates.
I was using Connect until yesterday, which I found to be the best option thus far, but I don’t think it’s open source. Liftoff is also good though, but in terms of looks something is off with it for me. Maybe it’s a little to cluttered.
Sync is fantastic in terms of features, look and feel and customization. It’s definitely the best app I’ve used so far. The issues of free-with-ads and the steep pricing for ad removal/Ultra are definitely there, but I can’t deny that it’s the best feeling app for Lemmy right now.
I switched from Jerboa to Sync, as I felt Jerboa was not registering my upvotes? In addition I somehow couldn’t subscribe to communities. (Maybe all user error.)
I used Jerboa as my stop gap until Sync came out.
It’s fine, but I have at least 8-9 years of muscle memory and use with Sync. Jerboa was never going to compete with that.
Nope. I’ve messed around with other apps but nothing comes close to Sync.
People really seem to be sleeping on Thunder. For me it’s by far the slickest of all the Lemmy apps I’ve tried.
Summit is pretty cool.
It took me a while to stumble across Summit. I’m really enjoying it! I’ve tried everything so far and, while each has something going for it, Summit has the most of what I think I want so far. Tbh it just reminds me of Boost, which I’m really looking forward to. But yeah, Summit is my current favorite.
I never once tried Sync before but now that it’s here I’ll give it a go
Connect for Lemmy has been really good so far, too.
I tried sync today but so far I prefer connect. May try it again later.
I did try Connect for a bit, but it just wasn’t Sync. That’s not a diss on Connect because it is a good app. I’m honestly just happy people have 3rd party options to find the one that works for them.
I really like liftoff
Me too, I started my download almost immediately after being notified.
Yep, me too. First posting here 😊
Same here. Lemmy websites are not that good. Sync app is great
Yep, same here. Tried a bunch of different apps but never became comfortable with any of them, so I completely stopped using Lemmy, but Sync gave me a reason to come back here.
I’m using sync until infinity beta goes public, at least.
edit: and I’m not longer using Sync! 😊
Same. There were also lots of server errors in the week after sync stopped working for Reddit so I took some time off.
The sync app is amazing though.
Hey it’s me
Goku!
It’s like I’ve gone from using a promising alpha for a Reddit replacement to a near-finished product. I love it.
I don’t know what happened but I also see less politics and more interesting topics, which is making me want to vote more let alone to comment more.
I have a sync-ing feeling you’re right.
I’m here because of sync. I’ll be using boost for lemmy also.
