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As someone who came over from reddit basically via Sync, this is normal. Dev likes to go MIA for extended periods of time and suddenly appears with huge updates.
Doesn't suit the still developing environment here, though.
Also just extremely rude.... Everyone would understand if he puts out a short message like "busy with work for the next few months". Randomly leaving for months while people pay for something you make is crazy.
I wouldn't characterize that as "extremely rude".
I bet the people that dropped $100 on it in good faith would.
Idk, we don't have to use it, tons of clients out there...
Still very shitty behavior when you're asking for 20โฌ
Wait, what?! I'm on sync right meow and haven't noticed anything off about it. But i also don't have any other source of news or social media to compare to lol.
The most shocking revelation tho is that I haven't paid a dime to use synce and it's been my only means of accessing Lemmy since I annexed from reddit. There is an option for premium but there is nothing about the free version that I would feel I'm missing out on something enough to pay for it.
When the dev announced he'd be porting Sync to Lemmy, he mentioned that he'd have to raise the premium price to cover costs. I gladly paid to support him, but that was under the assumption he wouldn't go AWOL for months with outstanding bugs.
Ok that makes way more sense than I originally understood. I totally agree.
Sure we don't, but as a long time subscriber on reddit then Lemmy, who doesn't even need the ultra features but wanted to support the dev, I've been feeling bamboozled for a few months now...
Dude saw the project of his life absolutely destroyed by Reddit. I can understand he just wants to move to the next chapter of his life.
Sure a bit of communication is always appreciated but it's already pretty cool he ported the app to Lemmy.
Yeah, no. That doesn't hold water when you're actively accepting payments for an app on a new platform but not maintaining it for long periods of time.
He didn't move on with his life. He ported sync to lemmy, dramatically increased the pricing model, and now seems to go AWOL for extended periods of time often resulting in broken functionality.
Just an inefficient service.
I get that it's always been like that, it just shouldn't be. Whether you believe it's okay or not is totally an opinion and it's fine. I've used sync alone for as long as it's been around basically.
Just switched recently to Thunder. It's a bit slower but has a lot of options. Its working fine... And this is from a person who has been many times over the years and is currently paying for sync.
Sync is more reddit than reddit was. And is my Lemmy experience up until a few days ago.