I’ve been using Sync for at least three years, and I’ve been a vocal advocate of the app, but I don’t feel right paying for ad free anymore.

I am unable to transfer my paid account to my new phone and yet Google continues to take out my $2.13 every month. I understand everyone needs time away sometimes but I don’t see how LJD feels right accepting people’s money while providing ZERO support for months on end, and never bothering to at least appoint a maintainer in his absence.

I see issues piling up with this app and I’m forced to look at ads while LJD does whatever he wants and takes my money. I feel stupid that I’ve been paying this man for years to provide a good experience just to be taken for a ride like this.

I had bought the lifetime pro back in the Reddit days, I paid for pro subscription while using Lemmy, and at this point I’m just done. I hate writing this post because I’ve been a happy, continual premium user of this app for literally years, but there’s only so much I can handle.

  • ProdigalFrogEnglish
    25•2 days ago

    There’s so many good options now: Eternity, Raccoon, Voyager, Jerboa, I’d give the competition a look and donate to the one you settle on.

    • misery mansionEnglish
      11•2 days ago

      What I find quite interesting is that sync is obviously very feature rich, it’s why it was many people’s preferred client.

      I just downloaded a few of the others and here’s a few things:

      • you can set different sort methods based on view. This feels important at the moment when communities are smaller. I have my subs set to New but Instance and All to something else
      • feed view customisations are super deep. Nice to have obviously but this is where all the inherited value from the old reddit app is
      • gesture navigation still feels better than all others but I might be biased because I’m used to it

      However, it’s undeniable that there are still some basic things it doesn’t handle perfectly. At the moment the perks outweigh the missing bits for me, BUT I found the pricing at launch to be optimistic at best, so like another commenter, I’m using the free version and blocking ads via Blokada and I’m happy enough

      It would be great if it did everything perfectly I agree but that’s true for all the apps rn

    • @sunbeam60English
      14•2 days ago

      Checking in from Voyager. The waters great over here - come join us!