When you watch a video using Sync, like from redtube, you are actually asking the Sync server to find the video in the link and send you what it finds. Same with downloading a video. This is because the Dev constantly has to update the code that extracts videos from websites.
So he knows all the porn you watch.
(I’m just guessing what’s going on based on my own usage of the app and seeing this url. Either that or it’s pure spying and not needed at all.)
Thanks. 24.03.26 is just the date of the release
If I read comments then tap the Android back button, the post looks read and it stays that way through refreshes, so I don’t seem to be affected. I’m on Lemmy.world, though.
Sync is full of dumb bugs and the markdown uses reddit style for everything still. A fucking year later. I wish apps like Thunder would catch up in the quality-of-life features so I can abandon Sync entirely. It’s a cobbled together port of Sync for Reddit and was never given the focus it needs, especially for the price he asks for it.
I’m on version 122 of Sync on Android.
Where are you getting that number? If I press the bug icon when editing a comment, this is what I see. (Some stuff omitted)
Device information
Sync version: v24.03.26-14:56
Sync flavor: googlePlay
View type: Compact
Push enabled: false
Android: 14
-site:reddit.com is more explicit. Then you don’t block pages that merely mention reddit.com.
Works on Google. Maybe others.
Not logged in and using Mullvad, and it works fine.
Try Thunder or Eternity. Both are pretty good, and the best open source alternatives I’ve tried. I paid $20 for Sync at launch, and now that LJ is back at it, I’m using it again.
$20 one time for an app I use every day is not that much really. It’s the price of an average meal out. Or maybe 1.5 cheaper ones. You’ll forget you even paid it in a couple weeks.
Overall, I prefer the old version. Sometimes I need to be reminded of the context of a reply, I can just tap the reply. Other times it’s obvious from the message itself.
Right now the post title font is larger then the reply font. It should be the other way around. The reply should be the most obvious thing, and the ancillary stuff should be small and compact. But including the title at all should be optional, as well as the icons.
I personally don’t want to see user avatars or community icons or even the post title, really. I also don’t need it to have a cute speech bubble. The reply should use the full width to save vertical space.
There’s a lot of wasted space for one line replies. And longer replies end up being taller than need be because of the indent. And seeing the same post title over and over is oddly bothersome.
I’d ban you just for putting HTML in your title.
The additional line breaks aren’t doing anything, as I’m sure you can see.
The indent should be an option, if anything. At large font sizes, or small screens, that forced indent might be wasting a lot of space. Especially for nested lists.
Although, as it turns out, Sync barely indents nested lists. That alone makes it hard to read, too.
I’d support the indent you mention. It would make nested lists much easier to read, too.
That’s a placebo and it’s not doing anything. Bulleted lists never need two spaces at the end of each line. You only use two spaces at the end of line that are not in bulleted or numbered lists.
The bug is that Sync requires a blank line before you start the bulleted list. The Lemmy website doesn’t require that.
Here is your comment with no spaces at the end of each line:
spaces after each line. Here’s a test…
See? It still works fine.
Now here’s an example of what two spaces do.
The first sentence below has a new line after each word but no spaces. The second sentence has two spaces and a new line after each word. The spaces force a line break to be rendered.
This Is Not A List
This
Is
Not
A
List
Source of the above:
This
Is
Not
A
List
This
Is
Not
A
List
This feature of markdown was implemented to prevent text from emails and such from wrapping in funny ways when pasted into a comment (or whatever). Old emails often force line breaks after 80 columns of text and it looks goofy when viewed in a modern web browser if those line breaks are kept, so they are ignored. To preserve the line breaks, you add two spaces at the end of each line. That or you might prefer to write paragraphs with a hard wrap at some column, but other people shouldn’t have to suffer that.
Adding the two spaces to lines in a bulleted list does nothing useful, but it also doesn’t break it, so of course it works.
I’ve noticed that Sync requires two newlines between the preceding sentence and the bulleted list, but the Lemmy website does not, nor does Eternity. That appears to be the problem with the list you posted.
This might not make a bulleted list in Sync:
This should make a bulleted list in Sync:
Source:
This might not make a bulleted list in Sync:
- one
- two
- three
This should make a bulleted list in Sync:
- one
- two
- three
Yes, that was the case. Sync screenshot:
Is there a manual on how to setup post filters? 😂
I tried putting “Elon” in either the include and exclude box (wasn’t sure which one it should be) and neither will filter a post with “Elon” in the title.
I said “hadn’t”. When you came back from your sabbatical you fixed the newest crash, and a few very old bugs, and the limited fixes in the patch notes seemed to indicate you weren’t working on the project over those 4 months. Obviously, you done a bunch since then. But I don’t know for sure, of course, because you weren’t communicating at all.
Don’t feel too bad from my comments, LJ. I don’t know what you’ve got going on in your life. I’ve been a vocal supporter of Sync since the beginning, and I was still supporting and defending it in February, but after the fourth month of your complete silence, I started to lose hope and got very frustrated; started telling people the app appeared to be abandoned and not to spend money on it.
You do your thing. I’m going to try to refrain from making any more comments about your app or your process, but I still don’t feel good about it.
Thanks for the tip! I’ll try it out.
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.
Voyager isn’t anywhere near as customizable as Thunder. I gave it a shot and almost immediately uninstalled it. I haven’t tried Jerboa since the mass reddit exodus. It was pretty bad back then and had very unintuitive user switching.
New here commenter chiming in…
You do raise some good points about maybe there not being as many customers as I thought, but there sure was a lot of buzz when the app first launched. Sync for Reddit was an very popular app. We essentially got kicked off of reddit and didn’t want to be there anymore, so we moved the Lemmy.
Hell, maybe it was only a few hundred people paying $20 and a few dozen paying for lifetime Sync Ultra at… $99?
But the Discord server has 2600+ members. If even half paid $20, I would think we deserve to be able to edit titles on our posts 6 months after launch of the app. Or use the proper Lemmy markdown, or not crash when you enable certain features, but that wasn’t the case! (Plus a hundred more bugs.)
If you charge money for an app, it shouldn’t have such dumb bugs for literally months. Don’t charge a premium price for a beta app. $20 is kinda nuts for a phone app where there are free alternatives that do exactly what you want 9 times out of 10, but maybe aren’t as fancy or are missing a bunch of niche features.
I’m not trying to rail on LJ too hard. I don’t know what demons he has. But saying we’re “lucky” to get a hasty hack of a reddit app rubs me wrong. Especially when having to pay for it or get horrible ads.
Last time he stopped being silent after 4 months he started working on big fixes and such. He did nothing during those months.