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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How is Sync so much smoother and faster than others?

[โ€“] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A decade of development and optimization vs a couple of weeks/months.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Shouldn't Infinity have the same polish then? I am a Software Engineer (not front-end though) and I'd be fascinated to learn the technical differences.

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago
  1. It's not being developed for that long
  2. It's a different developer who needs to get familiar with the code
  3. He's doing it in his free time unlike the Sync dev
[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My guess is because it's not the original developer for the app. So they are still figuring things out on how to transition the app to Lemmy.

But I have no doubt they'll get there :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm using infinity and it does have the polish. I don't get the fuss about "tHe OtHeR aPpS dOn'T hAvE tHe sMoOtHnEsS!!1!11!"

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have both Sync and Infinity (and Voyager) installed side by side and Infinity takes significantly longer to load.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Have you updated it? The latest version solves the loading problem

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's not smoothness but bugs. It's still a alpha