With the ad adjustment came these banner ads on the top of comment sections and they are atrocious so much so I don’t bother reading comments anymore. They all have the obnoxious white backgrounds and they flicker since they move. It feels light no matter my phones britness they are blinding and since content doesnt get loads of comments the banner is just distracting while reading. I’m on board with ads as I haven’t paid to remove but this specific style changes how I’m using sync now.
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Either pay for it or use a free app like Thunder.
I’ve been using Thunder for over a week in protest of Sync’s dev walking out on us mid conversation and not saying a thing or looking at any bugs for four month. “Us” being the people who paid good money for the app ($20 dollars), who test the betas, write bug reports on github, and participate on Discord.
He left us with bugs that crash the app, broken markdown, uneditable titles, and more very basic things. He rushed out a minorly tweaked version of Sync for Reddit, took our money, then bailed.
And when he comes back everyone’s sniffing his butt and wagging their tails like they’re so happy to see him! But he left us out to dry for four months.
I’d like to see an open source app eclipse Sync in every way so no one has to be forced to choose between not using a great Lemmy client, paying $20, or suffering horrible ads.
Thunder is pretty great right now. And if the main dev or devs walk away, someone else can pick up the reigns. And it’s completely free.
So I’m giving Thunder a real try and reporting bugs and offering suggestions.
I plan to buy it just don’t have the money and I don’t like any of the other apps. I’m not gonna breath down the neck of the one guy working on this in his free time. He does a lot of work in the background and I’m actually fine dealing with the ads this specfic set of ads just makes using the app very uncomfortable to look at.
A lot of people act entitled to others free time and having on demand responses it’s exhausting for anyone trying to do anything when people slam on them for not relaying messages of every little thing they’re doing.
slam on them for not relaying messages of every little thing they’re doing.
That’s not an accurate characterization of it. He went from chatting all the time on Discord to completely disappearing for four months, leaving all us paid users in the wind to suffer all the bugs. From his communication since then, he hadn’t touched the project in the meantime. No one should pay for a beta app and then get abandoned for months. That’s just not right. I don’t understand how that doesn’t leave a bitter taste in your mouth.
If you call that “slamming”, you must work for a newspaper.
Sorry but I haven’t touched the project in the meantime?
If I was not using Pihole, I’d gladly ditch Sync. While I think this is the best app around for browsing Lemmy, the business model and prices are fucking ridiculous.
Otherwise, I’d probably been using boost.
Just use a Lemmy app without ads
No can do. I don’t care for any apps besides sync. Been using it since day one for reddit. Everything else feels weird.
Why would you use literally the only lemmy client with ads, then complain about the ads?
Boost, summit and connect left the chat
Xxxxx(redacted as per community rule) was $4.92 CAD to remove ads while Sync is $27.99. For the record I think Sync is the better app but like maybe 4-5 dollars better not nearly 600% better.
The Boost dev also didn’t abandon their app\platform for months during its infancy where it certainly needed the attention then comes back and drop more ads in the app.
Is there something you wanted me to work on specifically…?
Why would you be so stupid and post this shitty unproductive comment?
