My feed has been flooded with posts about the Sync app released for Android, with a lot of hype but also some complaints regarding pricing, ads, privacy, etc.
This made me really appreciate Memmy, with which I have had no issues so far, and am impressed with how clean and easy it has been to use despite being new.
I can’t get on with voyager. What the dev has done with a React PWA app is amazing but not having haptics makes it feel too weird. And the new app version is just a web view and performance is awful for me, not sure if it’s better on newer phones. But i could learn a lot from what he’s done with React I’m sure.
Yea that’s what i was talking about with the app version that uses web view. It’s very laggy because of technical limitations of making a web app run natively
Thanks, I’ll check that. I’ve been beta testing Thunder and Liftoff! liftoff works nicely for browsing, but seems to have trouble posting using federation (tells my I’m not signed in anywhere). Thunder let’s me post, the the UI needs lots of work (now swipe forward, tough vote buttons and more).
@nilloc Are you running the latest version of the Liftoff app? Had a similar issue until the latest upgrade and now it prompts me to select the profile before I post when I'm logged in with multiple profiles across separate instances.
Not sure what to elaborate on, so I will just explain more in depth what I meant.
So, because Sync is a closed-source app, in order to modify it you will need to change the compiled code itself or to add your own code, hoping it doesn't affect the application.
no-ads and less talking to 3rd party version of sync.
what I meant by this was that the modders would change 2 things : Ads and requests sent to 3rd parties (google, amazon, facebook, etc.). I have no clue how apk/android modding works, but I'm assuming all they have to do is remove the sections that add ads and talk to amazon, google, facebook etc with data.
Make sense? If not, let me know what doesn't and I'll try to explain it.
I'm also an ex-Apollo user. Memmy was my go to until I learned about Voyager. Don't even need Sync much, at this point, as this web app works for everything. If Voyager improves posting experience with rich text preview, it's simply perfect.