Afternoon everyone,

I wanted to go over a few points related to pricing, stats and the roadmap


Pricing

  1. Sync for Lemmy is completely free with ads (the same as Sync for Reddit)

  2. You can remove ads in the account picker or drawer for a one time fee of ~$20

  3. Sync Ultra also removes ads but it’s not required

  4. I’ll be working on regional prices over the coming weeks


There are now 24k installed users up from 100 the previous day!

I’m going to be spending the next few days going through all of the comments / messages and fixing any crashes.

As always thanks for the support and hope you’re liking Sync!

Lj

Edit: testing edit

  • @[email protected]
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    232 years ago

    Just voicing my support for the work you’ve done so far and am happy to pay the $20. Honestly I was a little taken aback at first sight but thinking about how many years of service I got with the reddit app I’m happy to support the developer. I’ll reiterate what I saw another commenter say and it would be nice if a small portion of the fee was used towards to the support of Lemmy as a whole as well. I want to see this continue and flourish. Thanks again to the developer for one smooth app.

  • Monz
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    202 years ago

    The price is perfectly fine. I had Sync Pro for Reddit for nearly a decade for only a few dollars.

    Though I’m no longer on Android, when I return, Sync for Lemmy will be my first purchase.

    Thanks for your hard work!

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    2 years ago

    Where are the ads everyone’s talking about? I haven’t seen any and I haven’t paid anything or will they only start when it’s out of beta?

  • nick
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    122 years ago

    It’s so nice to have this app back!

    One quick thing, comment threads can appear out of order when using “top” as the sorting mechanism instead of “hot”

    You tend to see child comment chains detached from their parents.

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        Thanks. Also, there’s no language selector on comments so some communities will not let you submit comments.

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        So far I’ve seen it happen everywhere where the parent comment has less karma than its reply.

        I hope this helps debug it.

  • @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    Didn’t have to think twice to get Sync Ultra lifetime for the amazing value Sync has been in my life the past 10 years. Even paid for previous Sync for Reddit versions. Easy decision. Thanks LJ

  • @[email protected]
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    92 years ago

    Huh. I swear ad removal was $13 yesterday. Did that change? $20 is quite an increase over that

  • @[email protected]
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    122 years ago
    1. I’ll be working on regional prices over the coming weeks

    Glad to hear that, until then I don’t mind the ads. They don’t make me wait to see a post or hindering anything.

  • @[email protected]
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    22 years ago

    Is there a way to make it work with Android’s Open by default links? Guess you will have to throw the urls of all instances in there.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    Thanks for the update! Enjoying the app so far. Looking forward to what you have in store for the future.

    Are you putting together/have you shared a more detailed roadmap for what you’re tracking to accomplish during this beta phase of the app?

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    Loving the app so far. Is there anyway to view communities by size? My instance has a “communities” page that shows local and all communities by user count. Is this on the roadmap?

  • Polar
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    2092 years ago

    I just wanted to say I’m sorry for the backslash you’re getting for charging money.

    I’m also sorry people expect it to be $1 because the Reddit app was $1 back in 1825. I genuinely believe it’s children complaining, because no functioning adult would complain about a price increase when rent has tripled or quadrupled since the $1 Reddit app. It’s also annoying to see that people think that saying they bought the Reddit app for $1 and enjoyed it for 10 years is an argument. It goes to show it was severely underpriced.

    It must be frustrating to have that type of response. Lemmy users seem to be really entitled when it comes to software, and the response you’re getting scares me for the future. I really hope the Boost developer doesn’t cancel his app after seeing how entitled Lemmy users are being right now.

    What frustrates me more is the people complaining are continuing to use the free open source apps. Like great, you already have an alternative you prefer. Shut up. Stop bringing others down.

    I wish you the best. Thank you for choosing to develop for Lemmy. I have my eyes on Boost, but I’m gladly using your free tier for the time being.

    Thanks again!