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And here I am, waiting for a “Lemmy is Fun” app.
Relay for me. But it looks like Sync finally added swipe gestures so I’ll just use that, since my favorite app isn’t getting a Lemmy port. Connect and Voyager are too clunky for daily use. Can’t wait until Sync launches.
(Edit: I just hope it shows downvote counts, comment previews, and has a tablet mode… Oh and doesn’t refresh the page every time I post something.)
Fellow Relay refugee. I welcome the swipe drawer even though it misses some actions. My biggest grudge is probably scaling. The font sizes are way too small and adjusting them in settings doesn’t seem to adjust them everywhere (e.g. this reply screen I’m looking at right now).
Overall I’m positive. I’ll probably duel-wield Sync and Jerboa and see which one brings the most pleasure.
He’s only making a Tildes app 😞
Because my brain is 60-70% walnut, I thought you made a joke about abbreviating Tildes is Fun to TIT.
Tildes is Terrific?
Isn’t Tildes still invite only and basically denying everyone their application?
No? It doesn’t feel like Reddit / Lemmy though either. I don’t have an account, but it feels really dead compared to Lemmy. I considered switching to Tildes, but the communities are too wide, like there isn’t a Futurama community, just a TV one, there isn’t a Retro games community, just a games one.
It makes sense when you have a small userbase, but I care about niche communities and Lemmy offers that, and some are even slightly alive here.
The user base was also too narrow. It felt like they wanted a specific kind of community, to a place open to just anyone.
You can request an invite by emailing them or posting in the reddit tildes thread
Ive found connect is a pretty great alternative if you haven’t already checked it out.
Former RIF user for over a decade here. Now using connect and is not too bad of a transition.
Same same
While we’re all talking about Connect (and this could probably be a support post in the community but whatever), is anybody else having an issue that the app isn’t showing all comments? I can get it to show different ones by changing the sort but it doesn’t seem like there is a way to view all comments in a post. I don’t think it’s the result of a block or defederation.
hell yeah another connect brother
My brother we stand united 🫡
Connect dev here, glad you’re liking it!
I use it sometimes, but with the instability of lemmy and being kicked from my login, not having saved logins is really annoying. I finally figured out that my keyboard app has been adding a space to the end of my username because it detects it as a saved word, and I don’t always remember this, so sometimes its a 2-3 attempt process just to log in and use the app.
This is one users 2 cents, I’m not really saying I dislike your app more than I am taking the opportunity to bitch to someone who will listen
I’ve really been enjoying it, although I have a problem with it. I have it set to hide seen posts, and when I try to see the top week posts, it says that there aren’t any. When I try it on wefwef, however, it shows posts. I’m assuming it’s something to do with how the post lookup works, where it will only retrieve a certain amount of posts to show and if I have seen them all, it won’t retrieve more? (wefwef takes a while to retrieve new posts, so I assume that’s what it’s doing)
It is a great app, thanks for developing Connect.
Waiting for Boost for Lemmy here.
My first comment, feels good to be using a Sync app again. My Reddit usage has dropped considerably so I’ve had extra time to waste…
I logged into reddit for that post. Man, I do not miss reddit at all.
Using this on a pixel fold and it’s glorious.
Ooh nice! How are you enjoying the pixel fold?
Loving it. Admittedly, it’s a luxury item and not worth the price for most people but it’s been a better experience than my pixel 6 pro, which google fi gave full me full trade in value for upgrading to the fold.
Happy more notable support is joining but I think it will be hard for me to leave Voyager (tAfka Wefwef) at this point.
How do you install voyager? Is it on the Play Store?
Not yet, you can build it from the GitHub source but it’s a mainly a web app for any platform. We’re trying to talk the dev into putting it up on F-Droid as well.
Since you’re on lemmy.world, you can use m.lemmy.world
You install it as a webapp from your browser.
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Voyager is like an open source Apollo. It’s incredible
As a former Sync user, I do miss the markdown help. But otherwise it’s tight
I’m sure it will come. Here’s an open issue where the dev has responded https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/367
I’m sure it will come. Here’s an open issue where the dev has responded https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/367
In case anyone doesn’t know yet, there is a iOS testflight app available. For me the haptics that is not present in the webapp made it so much more enjoyable to use.
Using it right now xd
I wish they had just updated the old App.
That’s against Google’s terms of use, you’re not supposed to replace an app with something different.
If you had downloaded an app and all of a sudden it changes into something else, you’d be pretty displeased. Imagine if Facebook the company suddenly changed the Instagram app into an app for Facebook, they can do most of the same things, but it’s not the same.
Plus it would be fair for the developer to get new payments for lifetime subscriptions, it’s a new app which is significantly more work than just maintaining an existing one.
I do understand. But is lemmy so different from reddit? In each case the content is done by the users anyway, and subreddits come and go all of the time. One could argue that Facebooks aquisition of WhatsApp is the same kind of change, as switching out the reddit backend of Sync with a lemmy backend.
The API is completely different. The underlying code had to be completely rewritten from scratch. (Not the UI elements, the handling of the API calls.) It’s a lot of work.
So what Google did with Google Talk, Hangouts, Duo, etc.? This is basically a case of “do what I say, not what I do”.
Any chance for a paid version but not a subscription? I would dump money into that so fast.
Click on ‘remove ads’ instead of sync ultra.
Where do we purchase the pro version (I know there is ultra through the subscription, but it was noted earlier that a one time payment option would also be available for ads).
In Beta 25, in the account switcher in the top left is a “Remove Ads” button. It’s $19.99 one time. No word yet on the price for a lifetime Ultra subscription.
Dev mentioned a pro full price version is coming in the future, the ultra subscription was to keep online sync features that requires a server apparently
Edit: I just bought it :)
Ahh gotcha. I just said fuck it and got the annual. Hopefully Google can continue to find it through opinion rewards haha
Same here homie, lol
It feels like old reddit sync experience. I am glad the app is back.
Right? Its funny that I thought I missed Reddit when in fact all I was missing was Sync.
Y’all I have missed this app. Jerboa is fine but sync just feels so much better.
It feels good to be home, fam
Finally… inner peace.
Liking it so far!
Reddit is making the same mistake that 3DFX made against Nvidia and ATI back in the day with third party developers. Restricting 3rd party development was suicidal on reddit’s part.
Ultimately, people want choices, and I think if the average user see only one reddit app vs a literal wall of different Lemmy apps, they will be inclined to try at least one Lemmy app instead.
I disagree that the majority of people want choices, at least when it comes to social media. The vast majority of social media users want to be where the user base is at. For Lemmy to be the more attractive option, it either needs to have do similar numbers to it’s competitor or offer something very unique and useful that the others don’t.
And I say this as someone who has been much happier on Lemmy than I have been the last few years on Reddit.
I’m perfectly okay of those types of social media users go somewhere else. They like what they like, I like what I like.
Will it have the same Foldable phone optimization as the reddit version?
Wait, do foldable phones require their own optimizations? On one hand, cool, but on the other hand, not sure I want one as much now.
The Material Design 3 guidelines expresses how content should flow with foldable with slight differences compared to a tablet, for example:
https://m3.material.io/foundations/layout/canonical-layouts/list-detail
But you can mostly get away with a standard, two-pane layout as you would a tablet, though the center padding may be off.
You probably want the center 24dp spacer to be where the crease is, but it gets a bit complicated if you want to use a Nav Rail since it’ll offset your layout by 80dp. Here is a web based demo of what the configurations can look like.
Yes and no. For some apps, the developers have it set to scale to larger screens or have a certain layout when it detects that the DPI surpasses a certain threshold. This is really how they just get all of these apps to scale for traditional smartphones in general since there are many different screens sizes out there. What I’m referencing is that Sync is one of the few apps that goes from a traditional phone app when folded shut, to a dedicated tablet layout when the phone opens. Other apps such as Outlook, Gmail, Relay for Reddit, YouTube, Google Calendar, and some more apps do this as well.
Right now, Samsung’s Foldables have the ability to force apps to expand to the aspect ratio of the inner display for any application. The Pixel Fold, however, doesn’t include this feature so there are some apps that genuinely just stay in a traditional aspect ratio of a smartphone and doesn’t expand to take advantage of the screen real estate on the bigger display (if the developers didn’t build it in). The good thing about this is that for the Pixel Fold, because of the aspect ratio of the inside screen, you can have two regular sized apps splitting the screen side by side and it looks really good.
Google is doing this though to force app developers to start making tablet optimized apps and is even incentivizing developers by pushing their apps to the featured page of the Google Play Store once their app fully supports tablet displays. Apps that don’t make the change however, will have a message displayed for us foldable or Android tablet users that will say something like, “This app may not be fully compatible with your display,” when we go to install it.
A lot of information but yeah that’s the current foldable situation. I’ve been using foldables since the first Galaxy Z Fold and am now on the Pixel Fold. Absolutely love folding devices and will never return to a traditional slab phone.
I would assume. No other app has to my knowledge so it would be a nice killer feature.
Good news for you: [yes].(https://lemmy.world/comment/1003891)
The overall UI should be basically unchanged
Feels like home
Agreed. I came from redditisfun, but sync for lemmy has been a super solid experience so far.
