I was just trying to be nice to the dev and fans tbh. I went straight to Apollo when the official app started burning up my phone years ago and never looked back, or at other apps. I had no idea Sync was never on iOS. 🤷🏻‍♂️ But if it ever is, I’d try it.

There was an iOS version of Sync, but it was on TestFlight for years with no actual release. It was also developed by a different person.

I think it’s very noble of you to upvote dank memes. You can show this comment to your wife: Fluxion is awesome and deserves to upvote dank memes whenever they please. This is the way.

It’s technically still there, but it resolves immediately when you lift your finger now.

In my experience: In the PWA it consistently required lifting your finger and waiting for 1-2 seconds before attempting to scroll again. If you didn’t “not touch it” for 1-2 seconds, it would stay frozen indefinitely when trying to scroll up or down. This sometimes felt like an eternity for an otherwise very responsive experience.

In the TestFlight app, that 1-2 seconds is down to maybe .2 seconds or less. It’s nearly imperceptible - enough so that it feels like it’s fixed. But if you do use it in such a way that you encounter a freeze, you just lift your finger and immediately try again. There’s no additional waiting - just lift and continue.

So it feels fixed to me and I rarely freeze in the first place, but maybe the underlying problem still exists.

IOW: It’s as if an invisible overlay blocks your interactions after swiping back to the feed. That invisible overlay is now removed almost instantly instead of after 1-2 seconds. But if you try to scroll too quickly after swiping back, you might catch it while your finger is down. In that case, you can now lift and immediately continue. It’s consistent enough and minor enough that it could be played off as a feature that prevents you from accidentally scrolling after swiping back.

I haven’t personally experienced any bugs that would hold it back from an App Store release, so hopefully you’ll get it to try it for yourself soon.

Voyager TestFlight link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/nWLw1MBM

I joined early on, so it may be full like they often are. If it is, bookmark and keep checking - especially during off hours.

Here it is on the google play store: https://lemmy.world/post/2613340

Your argument for "as native as most apps” falls apart pretty quickly though.

I'm not saying it's a bad app. I'm just saying it's a badly made app, because JavaScript was a joke 30 years ago, it's a joke today. (ThePrimeagen)

Most apps aren't native, so being "as native" as the baseline average or better isn't even saying much at all. They're all using V8, and I'm slightly less disgruntled if they use something like React Native or whatever instead of Vue and virtual DOM stuff. This was brief but you get the idea.

Also, Xamarin and Flutter/Skia do exist.