I subscribed to Ultra for a year to thank you for the development work on this. If I wanted to get the lifetime instead is there some way to refund the year and wait for lifetime?
You can try asking Google for a refund, I did that because I did ad-free lifetime before realizing there was an ultra lifetime. I suspect the sooner you do it after the purchase the better, though mine is still under review so we’ll see. I also tried to make sure to explain that I was basically just trying to swap for a higher tier of product in the app as part of my refund request.
Thanks so much for your hard work and the terrific beta release!
Here’s to the success of Lemmy, Sync for Lemmy, and the rest of the Fediverse,
Cheers! 🍻
Edit; oh God theres ads on the app?? I thought you were talking about ads somewhere on lemmy.
Edit again. Yes I now know there ads on the app. I thought the first edit made that clear. You can stop replying telling me there’s ads on the app. I know this. Stop acting like reddit.
Seriously? Do you know what time is?
At the time the app had just released and I didn’t know there were ads in the app. As time went on I found out there are ads in the AP. That’s what the first edit is. In fact I even told you why I asked in the edit.
Fast forward to long after all of this happened, and you come strolling in “I can’t read and don’t understand series of events so I’m going to chime in with a dumb question”
My excitement is tempered by two things, the ultra cost being a subscription (I get the “why” I just hate more subscriptions) and also the pretty crappy targeted adverts “consent” whereby you have to scroll through page after page of third party vendors to turn off the “legitimate” interest which is, let’s be honest their way around consent by just ignoring what you want. That’s put me right off in all honesty sorry.
Would be good to have both options. Someone prefers to have a subscription to cancel whenever, and someone wants to not think about it anymore after purchasing.
It’s a service, why should you pay once? It’s like water and electricity, ongoing cost needs to be balanced by ongoing revenue. Especially when the utility is also ongoing.
If you prefer paying once, get some dividend ETFs and use the dividends to pay for the service. Yes, it’s expensive, but you can also sell the etf again when you stop using the service.
I get why subscriptions exist but everything right now is trying to push you into a subscription. I really don’t need yet another subscription in my life.
I’m all for paying for Sync but it won’t be via a subscription. Sorry.
One, I want to support devs making top tier clients for lemmy. Two, this stuff isn’t free to do or maintain, as a dev, I recognize and appreciate that.
If someone comes out with a better client for cheaper, then I’ll switch, otherwise, these terms are acceptable.
Using Adguard Home on network and Adaway on my phone I have no ads in apps.
I do not get ads in any apps on my phone, nor YouTube on phone/desktop/Firestick, nor Twitch on phone/desktop/Firestick, nor even on the Firestick launcher because I replaced the stock launcher. I will take the time to make sure I don’t ever get any ads on any of my devices and I can’t tell you how much of a quality of life improvement it makes. If you’re adverse to ads, there are ways to block them. It takes a little bit of effort, but it is so very much worth it in my opinion.
With that said, I also do not support subscription services, but I like to support developers that make good apps. When the option to remove ads is made available for purchase, I will still purchase it even though I gain nothing from it.
Then there’s me, who actively went hunting for where I could pay for this app as soon as I opened it
This dev has never been anything but respectful of his community. I have no qualms paying him the equivalent of 2 beers a year for something I have used for multiple hours a day every day for more than a decade. Easy value proposition.
The targeted ads thing I guess I get, but I haven’t had ads on Sync for so long it honestly didn’t really phase me because I planned to buy ad free anyway. Hopefully that bit gets streamlined.
It’s amazing how many cookie consent banners aren’t compliant. There has to be a button where you can clearly reject all, where it has equal look and feel as accept all. By default all non required cookies must be disabled, but the fact we can turn off the legitimate interest options shows they’re not required, and so they’re not compliant.
Basically every banner should have a reject button that’s just as clear as the accept. I’d you’re going through any extra effort to reject then it’s not compliant.
Well, if you need to tell people that, it’s not clear enough and thus breaks the law. I don’t know what it looks like and I can imagine you used a third party to provide it, but for user friendliness it could be a good idea to change it. I doubt you would get into legal trouble though since a lot of websites use this same format, but I always hate it when I see it.
Man, when the Pro lifetime comes out I’m there but at this point I’m not going to engage at all with either being tracked by advertisers or being forced to go through all that. There are other open source apps that don’t do any of that which may not be quite as good but the difference is worth it. Lemmy doesn’t have any ads. Why should I subject myself to ads or being tracked to use what is already free?
Because you know what sync provides and why it’s worth spending money on it. I get these arguments and they are valid but no one forces anyone to use an app. You can just ignore it. I also prefer open source apps and don’t like subscriptions but I bought the Ultra even if I just want to remove the ads. Also the price is not that big so i think of it as a donation.
This right here. I had ultra for reddit and was paying monthly out of my Google rewards earnings. I’m going to do the same again.
I’m never surprised by the lack of understanding as to what it actually costs to run the servers and the time that goes into services and apps like this.
Haha I was the same and didn’t know what to do with myself when I deleted the other app when the blackouts started. Like I would take my phone out, stare at it for a few seconds and put it away again.
Anyway I found other things to do instead of Reddit, and now I’m wondering if it’s a good idea to get Sync again lol. I’ve done so well!
It’s a nice app, but so is Jerboa, which does not have ads. If there was a one-time ad-free purchase; I would strongly consider it; but I’m not going to pay a subscription to avoid ads on an already ad-free website.
Honestly a third sub option for lifetime wouldn’t have been a timesink. Just like the old version had. I guess it was more of a time waste removing the third option.
Well I’ve known him to be a straight up guy for a long time so I’m not gonna impute any wrong motives to him as you are. It’s all a choice, if you don’t like the app don’t use it, simple. By the same token others like me choose to use the app, subscription or whatever, and you should accept that too. I could say that you just sound like a negative hater, but I won’t.
The dev don’t want to charge money while the app is still buggy. The subscription option is there for the die hard fans who keep pestering him to let them send their money. If it weren’t for people pestering him, the option to subscribe is probably not even offered right now.
I don’t know. Going by that logic, there should not be any ads in the beta as well as the app is not officially finished. That way people can use and try the app until the official launch and then buy it when the one time ad free purchase options are added without being exposed to our tracked by ads.
OK I haven’t seen it yet, guess my playstore hasn’t updated yet. $20 isn’t even a decent lunch for me where I live, so that’s cheap for me 😂… I mean the $16.99 sub for a year was cheap for me, so one time $20 is a steal
This is also the dev that got really hurt over his paying customers not liking when he completely changed the app they paid for under their nose with no option to roll back, and quit pushing updates for a while after that. It was a whole thing.
I’m not paying a dev that can’t handle feedback and has an entire fanclub cheering on literally every single decision.
I think how well sync was made is why I got so addicted to reddit in the first place. I use redreader now for reddit and it’s a major reason I’m over there way less often. Just not as enjoyable.
For as long as I can remember Reddit and Sync have been one and the same. I never used Reddit website or app, only ever used Sync to browse Reddit hosted content. I used it a lot. I’ve missed it a lot.
Between the Lemmy platform and Sync client, to all intents and purposes what Reddit was has been fully restored/migrated.
I know it’s early days, but I did not expect to see anything like this so soon and it gives me hope that Lemmy can grow and thrive into the network of people that always made Reddit what it was. Everything that’s needed is there - early, a little rough around the edges, but there. And being improved constantly.
I tried relay since sync ended and I still get annoyed at things it doesn’t do the way sync does lol. Randomly looked sync up and was like oh shit here it is! Feels so good
Aaagh It’s taken me four months to finally get into lemmy. And grateful to find a sync option for it here my first successful day. I have just downloaded sync for lemmy. What a relief. Reddit is truly awful. It’s been unbearable over there the last few months. Absolutely horrible. Thank goodness for Lemmy & Dawson.
I agree that not everything has to be decentralized, but why not replace Discord with Matrix given hew mature and nice Matrix is? IMO, this is one of those things that should be decentralized.
Edit: for everyone asking why, read cadence.moe/…/2020-06-06-why-you-shouldnt-trust-d…. The main point I care about is that as a free-to-use app with no ads, Discord is not profitable despite the Nitro subscribers. The operating cost to keep up with millions of messages a day is not cheap. They will, at some point, sell our data.
Discord doesn’t have the same issues people left reddit for.
Yes, yes it does. Both Reddit and Discord don’t allow 3rd party clients. It’s just that Discord never allowed any in the beginning. The arguments of a centralized content silo applies to Discord too.
It’s not like people just moved from reddit for fun.
Neither are people moving away from Discord for fun.
It’s just that Discord never allowed any in the beginning
Yes. It also never needed third party apps because it works well, has good accessibility features, etc… while reddit doesn’t. I honestly don’t think that third party apps are a necessity most of the time. Reddit is just a relatively unique platform where they had a thriving third party scene and took them away without any intention to add the features that the official app lacked.
Thanks, but that still doesn’t show (or not for me anyway), it’s still just a link. Not to worry, it’s hardly a deal-breaker where Sync is concerned :-)
This is the only subscription that I have. $2/mo or $16/yr is not even a blip on most people’s radar.
The OG Sync was the most used app on my phone and tablet.
So download, enjoy, and pay the dev! He’s phenomenal, approachable, and transparent. This isn’t some Flappy Birds knockoff. This is a polished app that allows us to connect with one another more easily. And I’d like to see what features he comes up with next.
It takes a lot for me to trust an app/dev this much. Hopefully everybody else will too and we can help him do even more neat things.
Right? It’s like 4 cents a day. I wouldn’t even stop to pick up 4 cents off the ground. For the hundreds or thousands of hours I put into Reddit sync the value prop is more than fair.
Yep! My sentiments exactly. My favorite app is back and I couldn’t be more thankful. Sync was that missing puzzle piece that has completed the Lemmy experience for me. The rest is just gonna be gravy now!
Only issue I’ve noticed so far is an issue I had to fix when I was working on my own app: sorting comments by hot breaks some nested comments. Yours, for example, is showing as if it is a reply to another comment, but the only thing above you is the root comment and three below yours.
Lemmy’s API doesn’t properly sort comment trees when sorting by hot: you have to sort them yourself. It’s pretty straightforward, though. It gives you the path to the comment as “comment1.comment2.comment3” you just have to sort the replies by the path string
I’ve seen tons. It’s the one big bug that’s been annoying me a lot. It’s super frustrating to want to read a thread and then have all the comments jumbled. I’m sure it’ll get fixed relatively quickly, though.
I don’t really know how Lemmy chains work, but are you able to see comments from a user that’s on a server that the server you’re on isn’t federated with?
Like say you are on lemmy.world and Other guy is on beehaw and those two are not federated with each other, can you see his comments? Can you interact with him at all?
Not complaining, but 15€ for ad-removal without the sync-ultra-features is a bit steeper than I expected.
I understand that the smaller user base probably requires higher prices, but that’s a number that made me reluctant to pull the trigger.
I’m subscribing to Ultra anyway, but with Sync for Reddit, I always enjoyed the option to fall back to “Pro,” if I let my subscription lapse. I was going to pounce right away on Sync for Lemmy Pro, but now I’m not so sure.
I’m subscribing to Ultra anyway, but with Sync for Reddit, I always enjoyed the option to fall back to “Pro,” if I let my subscription lapse.
So your a previous sync user? Something that made me pull the trigger was remembering just how much time I spent using sync the past couple years. I had a shitty chain restaurant burger earlier today for about $20 that I regretted. I think spending $20 on an app that I use for a couple hours daily is well worth it imo.
I used several Reddit apps over the years, mostly Relay, Sync, Dash (rip) and Boost. Boost and Sync were my favorites in the end, with a slight preference for Boost (per subreddit view settings and a much better gallery view being the core reasons).
I bought them all and even subscribed to Sync Ultra several times since its inception. I’ll subscribe to Sync for Lemmy as well, at least until Boost comes out - my ad-filter is preventing the ads from loading anyway and I’ll feel better subscribing.
But I will break with my rule to purchase the ad-free version of any app if it’s available on this occasion. 22€ is simply too much to gamble on an app with an uncertain future and a flaky history. ljdawson already paused work on Sync on at least one occasion and is almost certainly going to do it again if this financial gamble isn’t working out.
Wow, you weren’t kidding. That’s literally more than 10 times what I paid for the original Sync for Reddit Pro (standalone, without the ad- and tracking framework).
That’s “I want to technically offer a one-time-payment option, but don’t want people to actually use it”-pricing, especially since it doesn’t come with any of the additional subscription features.
I just went from “cool, this will probably be my new home” to “I can’t wait to see what Boost has to offer”.
As someone who bought the premium version of pretty much every single 3rd Party Reddit client (and just about every app I use that allows for ad-removal), this might be the first one I’ll skip.
yep. same with me - been using it since the early days.
I think ljdawson has been listening too much to his fanboys at the discord. They’ve been suggesting steep subscribing and one-off prices. I can’t believe the dev follow it through.
Not everyone has the same level of income as these fanboys. Just imagine, the price is already steep in the US, and Europe - how about for those who have to pay in average 3-5 times more due to exchanged rate? Crazy price. Anyway, we’ll see.
Thank you. Also recommend adding a copy of this inside of the settings menu. I did not see you had added this until another commenter pointed it out post-update.
I saw that a bit later. Now it’s a question of Sync vs jerboa and connect and the others. I’ve used sync before and it’s excellent. And I bought Relay for Reddit in the past.
I think for me the first that has a mark read on scroll and a floating dismiss (not hide) read posts button, is gonna be my winner. That was the feature that I loved on Relay.
Also, lemmygrad.ml (deranged Putin employees and simps seem to gather there and troll news). Fantastic, added to blocked instances (assuming the function works yet).
It’s a nice app mostly but there’s a few things stopping me from loving it currently
No lifetime license, I refuse to use a subscription service
list view mode doesn’t have the option to have buttons enabled and always showing
can’t disable auto hide of comment actions
No way to hide viewed posts
can’t highlight and copy text from a comment It just hides content instead (like why?) Only option is to copy all text from a comment but I don’t want to copy all just a small selection…
press FAB button and click on hide read, it will hide all post that you have viewed…not sure of it’s an ultra feature but click on a comment, press dotted button on the side and choose select text…if I’m not mistaken the pro version will come soon when the app is out of beta phase
Doesn’t have to be the most expensive app I’ve ever bought though. While also collecting and selling data. Right? Don’t get me wrong, I love Sync. I just feel it went a bit overboard.
I hate paying subscription fees to giant greedy megaconglomerations but when we are talking about independent developers charging a reasonable fee for a great app, well…
Still available! You can find them at: Settings->Post options->Swipe actions
Personally I keep upvote/downvote as the first two swipe actions, third as the save post.
Edit: pro-tip I just found after seeing someone else do it: long press on a setting in sync will copy a link to that setting. And you can paste it in a comment as such:
Yeah but no lifetime option anymore. That’s sadly a no go for me. I had pro and ultra lifetime before and I would’ve bought ultra again but I don’t do subscriptions anymore. I don’t know. Liftoff isn’t too bad.
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