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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Afternoon everyone,

I wanted to go over a few points related to pricing, stats and the roadmap


Pricing

  1. Sync for Lemmy is completely free with ads (the same as Sync for Reddit)

  2. You can remove ads in the account picker or drawer for a one time fee of ~$20

  3. Sync Ultra also removes ads but it's not required

  4. I'll be working on regional prices over the coming weeks


There are now 24k installed users up from 100 the previous day!

I'm going to be spending the next few days going through all of the comments / messages and fixing any crashes.

As always thanks for the support and hope you're liking Sync!

Lj

Edit: testing edit

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Thank you for working so hard and fast! I know there's a lot of people talking down about it being closed source and optionally costing money, but as a long-time user and patron it's completely worth it for the quality of experience you're able to deliver!

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Incredible work. It's amazing having this app come with us.

Thank you for this ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ™

I hope the negative posts aren't too discouraging; some of the foss community here seems to be oddly toxic. If you don't like it, don't pay for it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never used sync for Reddit, I was (and remain in my heart) a die hard RIF user. I appreciate the work you've done so much and more than ANYTHING the ability to have multiple columns again. It's sync for me now.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The app crashes every time I try to select an account or try to login. On some occasions I do manage to login but my feeds and communities are empty.

Also, $30 CAD for ad removal? Sorry but that's too much for me.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

$20 is to much imo. I would gladly pay 10, but for 10 more might as well stick with my DNS block.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Lawrence, you're awesome, thanks for making it happen! I paid to remove ads.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A few things I've encountered so far:

  • I can't submit/post anything. Is this normal? https://imgur.com/pHeOIm5

  • It would be nice to be able to have settings apply app-wide and not be user-specific. It's workaroundable with backing up settings through one account and restoring from the second one but a native solution would be nice to have.

  • Hidden posts only seem to apply to the feed and not carry over when viewing specific communities.

  • Didn't find any way to search comments.

  • Not receiving any notifications.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Any chance there will be a separate Sync for Lemmy Pro app available? I'd prefer this method as I had with Sync for Reddit Pro instead of the in-app purchase.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LJ! So happy to have Sync back. I'll happily pay for ad-free. It feels silky smooth so far. I don't see any bug reporting available in the app; should we just do it here? If so, I've noticed that "sort by top" in the comments sometimes will chop off the first comment.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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That one's already logged on GitHub actually

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When will we be able to submit posts with the app?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Splurging $20 on a Lemmy app with my country's currency devaluation is not going to work for me. Nothing against you or the app, the app is amazing and leagues ahead of the competition. But I'm not even sure if Lemmy will be the replacement for Reddit and how it'll all pan out after the hype wears off, so I'm going to wait for regional pricing for this one.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's so nice to have this app back!

One quick thing, comment threads can appear out of order when using "top" as the sorting mechanism instead of "hot"

You tend to see child comment chains detached from their parents.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are there any plans to re-implenent the "Sync" feature that the Reddit app had?

Just curious because I need my offline reading!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It's such a pleasure to be back, it's a wonderful app.

Can't thank you enough.

Pricing: I'll be happy to contribute (hell, I even have some Google survey credit rotting there), but honestly the current price is too high, and I don't mind a few ads. My opinion is that with a price point around 5 โ‚ฌ / year you could have a lot more people jumping in to remove ads, or at least it would be fine for me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago
  1. I'll be working on regional prices over the coming weeks

Glad to hear that, until then I don't mind the ads. They don't make me wait to see a post or hindering anything.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Thank you for Sync! I'm very happy with the experience so far!

One of the best polished apps for Android ever, and certainly the best for Lemmy.

Happily paying for Ultra :-).

If I may give a tiny bit of criticism: I can't find a way view or set comment language. Is that expected?

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

Installed and could immediately tell it was a great app. I just bought Ultra Lifetime.

My request would be the ability to collapse comments and to be able to promote certain post options buried in the menu to a button (like bookmark), namely, I use "hide post" a lot, and would like to choose to access it without having to drill into the menu. I recognize others might use other post options more frequently (like share or something), so it would be nice to make that configurable.

Thanks for a great app!! ๐Ÿ‘

Edit: thanks to some helpful replies, I now know that I can collapse comments by long pressing on them, and I can hide posts quickly by swiping them to the left!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Your app is amazing. Take all of my money, please

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice. I just hope lemmy continues to grow.

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