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This past week, Lemmy has gotten really good
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I'm using Sync (I'm lazy with getting new apps and it hasn't pissed me off yet) and the button is called "Everything". So I guess it's the All section!
I love Sync but be aware that it is no longer being actively developed. It has some bugs that will never be fixed, and might break entirely in the future.
Has the developer confirmed he's dropped the project for good, or is he still just MIA? I know he's gone over a year between updates before, so unless he's announced that he's done, there's still a small possibility of an update in the future.
This is longer than he's ever been MIA for before, this time I think it's about 2 years since the last update, and there are several literally critical bugs. But this is the downside with absentee developers like that, you never know for sure whether it's abandonware or not. But he seems to be actively working on other stuff still so I just don't think Lemmy took off enough in popularity for him to feel like it's worth his time monetarily. Makes sense if this was always more of a business than a passion project, which is the way it appears to be to me.
The least he could do would be to just say that he is done developing the Lemmy app. Just vanishing is a dick move.
Especially when one of the apps payment models is a monthly subscription. I hope most people have cancelled by now, but subscriptions tend to be sticky, which is partly why buisnesses like them so much.
I'm using photon in my mobile browser, but the 'everything' tab as well. Still learning but it's not too steep of a curve. Feels very organic & I love the lack of ads
That explains the "sync" logs I've been seeing! Is sync a good user experience?
Sync was a fantastic Reddit client (I started using it back in 2016), then during the API debacle the dev turned it into a Lemmy app and frankly it was the best on the market by a wide margin. But then he just vanished, and various things have gradually stopped working as it's not keeping up with the latest Lemmy updates. When upvotes stopped working a few months ago, I bit the bullet and have now moved to Summit, which has the closest user experience to Sync of all the Lemmy apps I've found (although it doesn't have anywhere close to the same level of polish as Sync did).
Sync is no longer developed I don't think. Thunder is the closest and majorly configurable.
As someone who used Sync up until I was forced to replace my phone recently, I recommend Summit.