Evening all, This is a really tough post to write but following my post the other day I think the best course of action is to shut down Sync before the new API changes go live.
Or kbin. But yes either way. I absolutely loved Sync and for me sync was Reddit. Like everyone else in the same 3rd party boat I won't use Reddit without it.
Same. I've really loved using sync over the last several years. I deleted my reddit account and uninstalled sync today. I'd be thrilled if sync worked with Lemmy.
A decade of building and refining a piece of software will do that. I first bought Sync Pro in 2011, and watching it grow and mature over the years has been a real pleasure. And while I am certainly missing the polish and functionality, and am hopeful for the future of Lemmy apps, I do wonder how apps based on an ad-based revenue system will fit in on an open-source, ad-free platform.
I'm on jeroba too- i'm sticking with it, lemmy is 100% worth supporting and what is happening with reddit is just ridiculous, I won't be giving them or their sponsors any more of my clicks.
Watching everyone saying goodbye to their apps they spent so much work on over the years is painful. It’s going to be even harder over the days until June 30th
This is the announcement that got me here. I'm going to spend a few more days simping for Lemmy and answering any questions I can as a novice end-used, and then I'll delete my 11yo Reddit account this weekend. I'm feeling really good about Lemmy right now though. Hopefully this has staying power for enough of us.
I would think it is partly the hard deadline of api access being changed mixed with seeing other apps already announcing closing. I would think it is just a, "Well, will have to do it sometime and this is as good of a time as any."
As a long time Sync user, this really hurts. To me, and a lot of others, Sync was Reddit. It was the only way I really consumed content, apart from the occasional Google search filtered for Reddit results. It was absolutely the only way I participated.
Wishing the best for the dev, and I'm hoping they eventually make another great app for Lemmy.
Sync WAS Reddit for me. I tried out the OEM app, and good grief is it awful. If Reddit wants to turn into Facebook, they can do it without me - and, by the sounds of things, without the majority of their main content creators. I'm very sad about the end of an era, but at the same time looking forward to seeing how Lemmy works out.
After years on Baconreader, I jumped to Sync. I don't know how many years it's been, but I'm sad to see it go. I'm more sad to see the direction Reddit is headed, but it sucks to have an official end of life on beloved apps.
So I'm pretty much an Apple person now. I have my iPhone, my iPad, my MacBook, Apple Watch, AirPods Max - you get the point.
But this has been the past 5 years or so. Before then I was heavily an Android person. And at the time, I was kind of into Reddit, but then I got (what it was then called) Reddit Sync.
It was absolutely phenomenal. Blew me away. By far the best user experience for reddit I've ever experienced.
Eventually I moved to iOS. I tried so many iOS reddit apps, and quite frankly, they all sucked - until Apollo came along. I think you know how popular Apollo is.
With that said, the guy behind it promised an iPad mode and kept promising it until this year he went "yeah actually it ain't coming anytime soon". All the while this dude kept nagging people to get his stupid Apollo Ultra subscription, which was incredibly aggressive. Dude really liked the subscription model.
I picked up one of my old Android phones from my mobile dev days (OnePlus 7 Pro for those who care) and opened Sync. Absolutely beautiful, but it failed to load as I deleted my reddit account the moment they announced these API changes.
I went ahead and paid for the lifetime subscription as a way of saying thanks for all the hard work over the years (Sync has been going on for much longer than Apollo and has and supports tablets too!! What a concept!!). ljdawson seemed like a genuinely nice and friendly person who genuinely cared about his app, perhaps even more so than the profits (which is so unbelievably rare).
It was a good run, ljdawson, but you absolutely killed it 🍻
Same experience. Moved to an iPhone from Android and had a horrible experience with Reddit until Apollo. Came back to Android somewhat recently and Sync felt like a warm hug.
Just bought Ultra to show gratitude to ljdawson and then deleted Sync off my phone. It's been awesome using Sync all these years. Reddit will suck without it.
I would rotate between Sync and Boost when I had Android. I think both are great and are the best reddit apps I used on Android. This makes me sad for current Android users. I was happy to pay for both when I was on there. And did so.
Time to move forward. Find a new home. I don't know if I'll never go on Reddit again. But I'm done with that place mentally and won't pursue anything on there ever again.
I've used sync for close to a decade, it is reddit on mobile for me, and now it will disappear, most likely I just won't log into reddit off my pc anymore.
Totally valid, I am concerned that they will try and kill old reddit and RES. RES devs sounded unsure if they will be affected by the API changes. If a Reddit result comes up on a Google search I'm not going to not click on it just because it is a Reddit URL. But they definitely won't get a cent from me.
Went out for drinks with my brother this eve, we had a bit of a conversation about the Reddit shitshow.
He uses Sync, and he pretty much said he'd nuke his Reddit account if Spez doubled down. He's been an active user since the days where Digg co-existed.
I don't think this is going to outright kill the site, but imagine the hit if millions of users collectively abandoned Reddit.
Speaking of which, are there any app recommendations for Lemmy that yall like? The web ui is fine on mobile, but it would be nice to have swipe gestures and the like.
Jerboa for Android, mlem for iOS, but they're still in early stages.
I haven't actually used Lemmy on mobile yet, but if its true that it works fine on mobile - damn, that's super relevant.
90% of webpage views are through mobile or tablet devices. Laptops and desktops are the minority, and responsive @media classes are vital. Having a mobile-friendly design is critical for daily usability. Modern front-end webdevs design mobile-first.
And yet, shockingly, too many providers just don't make it a priority. If the webpage is the way they reach users, then sure (Wikipedia looks slick on mobile). But the second they have an app, god, they really don't care if their web-experience goes to shit or decays into redundancy.
I didn't even know there were third party apps for reddit, but I looked into them and was going to buy Sync if we won. Stellar app - Icm saddened to see it go.