Yikes
So just consider buying the ad free version for 20 bucks then?
Lol. I uh. Guess I didn’t want a one time payment option after all.
Did you get that that is the ultra one time payment, and the basic ad free lifetime payment is $20?
Sync for Reddit’s Lifetime Ultra was $30. I paid that without thinking. $100 is a big increase.
Plus, I got one year out of the Ultra lifetime for Reddit. This is an even bigger gamble.
Then don’t do it. I wouldn’t spend that much for Ultra lifetime either, I never had ultra lifetime in reddit anyway. I’ve done the year sub now, and I would do the lifetime no ad for $20 also.
I feel the same way. $46 (Canadian) a year ago (August 1) for Sync Ultra. Got less than a year out of it…
Hurts even more that the new ultra has the same name as the old one. It gave me false hope that my old subscription would still be valid.
I’m pretty sure there’s still going to be an ad free one time payment though, Sync ultra has more than just ad free browsing. Personally I only want to remove the ads so if it’s priced like the pro version was then I’ll be happy
The ad-free version is already available für 21,99 €. Not going to lie, I expected the old reddit prices and was going to buy Ultra lifetime for 33 €…
Where do you find that?
Tap the account switcher in the top left corner, then “remove ads”.
Hmm, not there for me. I subscribed for a month already so maybe that’s why.
£18.99 is pretty steep.
Wished he’d give us an option to choose some option prices. Feels like a bit of a land grab at that price.
I paid £12.99
How’d you manage that!
That was the price it was when I tried to remove the ads
Bargain!
There’s an option to remove only ads as well in the profile picker menu. Costs about $25 if my conversion is right, lifetime.
It’s $20 USD to just remove ads permanently.
Oof yeah I just saw, that’s a bit pricey for me honestly especially because Lemmy doesn’t really have enough content at the moment to spend a lot of time on…
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There’s still a one-time remove ads/tracking price which is €23 for me, varies by region. The lifetime Sync Ultra is for cloud back-up features, can be ignored.
wow isn’t that like 6 years of subscription? so expensive
8 years if you invest the money and get a 10% roi each year. Not that I was going to.
I mean, I used sync for reddit for like 10 years.
Yeah, but Lemmy’s a newer platform and might not stick around for 6 years, IF it takes off like Reddit did. $100 is a bit too steep, if I’m being honest.
Then buy the monthly or yearly? The lifetime is just a third option.
I used Reddit Is Fun for so long I’m just sort of oblivious to tiny ads in my scroll feed.
But it’s not Sync, is Lemmy…
at that price you could afford the reddit api… not that i’d want to
Nope
Anyone remember what the Ultra sub options were on the old version?
Lifetime was 33 €. Not sure, but I think one year was 11 €.
Damn. I was pretty sure I had lifetime, and I would have at that price. Highly unlikely I’ll be purchasing lifetime again.
Hopefully it’s a price for early adopters and will be lowered in the future.
That doesn’t really make sense though, usually it’s the other way around
Would be better if he price it by the stage of development and available feature
Even Apollo Ultra was $50, and people thought that was expensive…
Just use FOSS apps for Lemmy. There are plenty good ones. Thanks to all devs and contributors!
Try out arctius (fennec) app. It’s also a good one to follow. Though admittedly still incomplete
Push notification actually cost money to run, so unless the dev has some money to burn (either out of their own pocket or donations) it probably won’t happen. Even Sync will only offer push notification for ultra subscribers.
This. When it comes to Apollo like feel and UI, for now voyager is the only option, right?
Shout-out to Thunder and Liftoff. I prefer the former, but Liftoff is great as well.
I think the ultra price for reddit was like 30 dollars for lifetime. 100+ bucks just seems like way to much.
Its $179 Australian. Absolutely not worth it to me.
Eh.
People have been spoiled by the app store. Like I agree its a lot of money, but it also takes a lot of money to live, and if someone is a solo developer for a living then they depend on software sales. Lifetime purchases are tough. Once you get that money, the potential for more money from that customer is gone. Unless you follow a traditional software licensing model where you buy a version and upgrading past a major release requires another purvhase.
Im pretty sure he LJ has taken into account the heavily decreased sales potential of the lemmy market. Hes going to make substantially less sales, so he needs those sales to be worth it, especially if its a lifetime purchase. Its hard to strike a balance between worth it for the customer and worth it for the dev. Ideally the lifetime cost pushes would be purchasers towards an ongoing subscription while still providing value for both parties.
I agree $179aud us too much, and I wont be paying that myself, but I feel for LJ at the same time. Its not going to be easy making the money he may need to continue developing at the same rate.
Spoiled by the app store?
This is the same price as a windows 11 licence.
What is so app store about that?
Because people want to pay $1 or $2 for a full version of an app, and that may not be enough to justify development.
A windows license is still legacy software model. You dont buy a lifetime windows key, you buy a version key and have to pay again after a major update, although this looks like its currently evolving to a more free to play model. Microsoft has an exponentially wider audience who are mostly captive though, as opposed to LJ who has just had his audience dramatically reduced.
At the end of the day development takes time. Time is money. If LJ cant make a sustainable wage from sync they will have to work elsewhere and sync and its users are the ones who suffer.
Mas activator will help you with the price
For an app that you can’t even make a post from yet. I don’t care who you are, $180 for an app still missing basic functionality is always going to be a hard sell.
I think Sync might end up hosting a Lemmy instance for ultra users. It could help user experience quite a bit
That wouls be a fine value add, especially if it integrated features into the server code that were open sourced and down streamed. That would add some real weight to that purchase price.
What would happen if you stop your subscription then? Lose your account?
There is no subscription though? It’s even written in the picture
Read again
Just run your phone through a free private DNS server and never see an ad again. I use dns.adguard.com.
None of my free apps show any ads on my phone.
I do that too on my Samsung phone. Do you know a way to do it on iPhone?
Check out their instructions. You’ve got a couple options:
I just can’t get myself to trust an ex Russian, offshore company with my dns traffic
Nextdns.io works well, and lets you customize tons of features. Alternatively, you can run a pihole on pretty much any spare computer to work as an home adblocker. You can also route up to an adblocking dns with it to double up.
You want to get extra wild, setup a wireguard vpn server at home after that, and have your phone auto connect to it when you leave your home wifi.
No more ads ever.
I do this. But I would still like to pay the dev. Just not those prices,
There’s also the ad removal option for 20$ one time. If you don’t need the other features of ultra.
I mean sure, but that doesn’t support the hard work the developer or into this… So…
Those donation buttons, rarely ever get used. Because everyone would rather just think that everyone else donated so it’s fine if they don’t. And sure, some do donate (I’ve donated before) but that’s the actions of the very few.
That’s wild. Like man I’m impressed with Sync and think it’s great but you’d have to be using it for 7 years for this to be worth it…Lemmy is so new you’d be mad to be making a gamble like this.
On the contrary, if you’re an avid sync users in the past (I did for 8 years), if you don’t make the gamble now, then it’ll be even more likely for the app to fail and go away due to the lack of funding.
With that high price and no regional pricing for a barebone app, if it failed, it’s on him. Only sucker pay for promises.
Why would anyone pay for this while there are better alternatives?
Because “better” is entirely subjective and some people probably disagree with you that the options you feel are better are actually better.
If there are better alternatives, I have yet to find them. Much happier right now than I was with Jerboa or Voyager.
Liftoff has been treating me well so far. I used RiF prior to Lemmy and Liftoff is almost* scratching the itch, but there are some kinks to work out.
Plus no ads and no $100+ premium fee.
Thunder. Literally the same thing. Open-source, no ads, doesn’t track your fucking data for targeted ads.
Paying $100 for this is so absurd.
