The hilarious thing is you can't post from Sync yet, only comment, so for every post about Sync someone had to use their browser or another app to post it.

Yeah im honestly starting to question if its all organic, as its trivially easy to artificially inflate posts, and we even had a post the other week warning exactly of app developers could manipulate votes to get more people to use their platform and make purchases.

We will. Lemmy seems to easily get flooded with singular stories. Eg whenever Elon comes up with yet another dumbass decision.

It feels good to be back to normal. Balance is restored.

I've still got revanced sync installed and I'm forgetting which one I have open occasionally, lmao

I definitely prefer FOSS, but hey if it gets you on the fedi, go for it.

Be the change you want to see.

Same as Reddit in the beginning, Digg was so strong back in the day.

I keep hearing people mention all of these apps, and I've tried most of them (I'm on Android, and besides Sync, I currently have Liftoff, Connect and Thunder installed; I had Jerboa and the Voyager PWA, but removed the former due to bugs and the latter due to slow startup).

Honestly, none of them feel as polished as Sync. They do offer pretty much the same functionality, sometimes even better, but the UI and UX of Sync is just smoother.

Maybe it's just that I'm used to Sync after using it for reddit for many years, but in any case I thought I'd put this out there in case others were feeling puzzled as I was from all the mentions of other apps suggesting they can replace Sync without any quality loss. Sure, maybe not functionality-wise, but to me the user experience is just as important.

Edit: for reference, here's an album of screenshots comparing the same views in Sync, Liftoff, Connect and Thunder (yeah, I'm a fan of the compact list view): https://imgur.com/a/MvawTYm — there are pros and cons to all of these, but IMO the sync experience is the one with the best design and UX polish. Happy to hear your thoughts, though!

Some of us have been using Sync for 10+ years, we're not exactly looking for something new

Honestly because IMO no other app compares to it in terms of polish, UX and smoothness; that's not just out of lemmy apps either that's phone apps in general.

And tbh that shouldn't be too surprising, It's got 10 years of development behind it and the dev works on it full time—no other lemmy app has that currently

Sync is already the most visually and ergonomically polished by far. That's not all that matters, but it's very important for me and many others.

Every single one of those apps except Summit and Voyager has janky scrolling, which is easy to notice on a 90Hz screen.

Sync has not dropped a single frame since my install on all my devices.

For me it's the force of habit. I'm already used to the UI, I know where everything is, what to expect, I can navigate it very quickly and set it exactly how I want.

All the features I'm used to like comment drafts or the comment navigation bar (jump between top-level comments easily) are right where I'm used to. Doing the Android "back" gesture from the left works like it should, I don't have to confirm exit with a button, all these small things.

It's also very polished, for example I encountered two issues with Connect:

• it didn't handle internet dropping out (e.g. temporary loss of mobile signal) well - it just kept failing on the retry button even after connectivity was restored, had to restart it

• the search in the sidebar didn't show all the matching communities, this seems to have improved recently

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Aside from the polish, it's also the familiar UX that many of us have used for a decade. It just feels familiar & right now!

Most of us are here because we used Sync for Reddit for years and want that familiar UX.

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