Morning all, Just a quick update to say I’m making good progress with the development and we just hit 24k email signups!
Lj
This is great news. I have signed up!
I must say, despite of how awesome Sync for Reddit was, I think we should all try not to go overboard with our expectations of what the first version of Sync for Lemmy will be. This is testing ground for all developers and expecting the same level of polishment that an app had on its 22nd version might be detrimental to the actual experience.
We know what ljdawson is capable of, so let’s support him, let’s enjoy his work (I am sure Sync for Lemmy v1.0 will still be awesome), but let’s also give him time to refine his product on a new platform. I don’t know what is involved in the development of this new app, but I do see some points where all other Lemmy apps are struggling, so I can only assume this enterprise presents some new challenges. It is only fair to give him some room for growth and not expect absolute greatness from scratch.
I’ll bet Laurence is stoked to read: “It’s been 47 minutes since the last update. Is Sync for Lemmy abandoned?” once things are underway
looking forward to it my dude, i havent used reddit at all this month. thank you !
is there a confirmation on the signups? I click the button but nothing appears to happen.
You use Firefox, don’t you?
I’ve experienced the same problem. FF’s advanced blocking blocks the call. Try signing up from a shittier browser, like Chrome.
It logged in once I did the confirmation from my email.
i was genuinely sad when i saw this.
Fantastic - literally joined Lemmy today to be ready. Looking forward to this, long, long time user and now dropping Reddit.
You Sir, are a legend.
Kind of feel cheated considering I purchased pro just a week ago, but that’s on me for being too optimistic when it comes to SHTF.
A week ago you should have known that 3rd party apps were going under
I’ll being pro again as well!
Agreed! I picked up Lifetime for Sync for Reddit before uninstalling it in support for Sync for Lemmy, and I’ll be popping for Lifetime again when it’s out! 🤘🏼 Long live Sync for Lemmy 🤓
Easiest purchase decision ever
I’m hyped! Currently using Connect for Lemmy which feels fairly polished but I find myself always trying to do Sync’s gestures lol. Really excited to get Sync back!
If I keep Sync for Reddit installed on my phone, will there be a way to import my settings once the Lemmy version is released?
Connect is good but the 3rd party Reddit apps were so crazy polished. The absolute dumbest thing spez did as an outcome of his dumb decisions was he sent all the best app developers on his platform, straight to his biggest competitor.
I mean third party apps have had over a decade more time to get polished in comparison to the Lemmy options. I’m not really optimistic that Lemmy is a true competitor to reddit. While I, personally, no longer want to support reddit, only a tiny fraction of reddit’s user base has made the switch to Lemmy, and if you go over to reddit right now, not much has changed. Posts are still getting orders of magnitude more interactions than posts here. Some mods will leave but people will eagerly replace them. I also think Lemmy is inherently a little difficult to understand. I’m pretty tech savvy and I had issues figuring it out. The average user is going to struggle a lot which is bad for becoming more widespread.
The ui code can be reused so a lot of the polish can be ported over. I don’t care for Lemmy to get as big as Reddit. I want it to get bigger than it is now but once you got a critical mass extra users don’t make the community any better.
It’s the back swipe and the collapse, isn’t it! This is pretty good in the meantime so fair dos to the developer of Connect.
But sync was sooo good. Can’t wait.
Exactly lol. Also the swiping on comments and posts to upvote, save, reply, etc behaves differently. I find myself accidentally downloading posts when I’m just scrolling.
We keeping the same icon right?
I really hope so.
Flipped I hope, like this sub’s (wait, are we calling these subs?) icon.
Far out that a huge number, and Lemmy is just starting out!
