Pretty much the title. There’s plenty of things that need to be addressed and as a sync ultra paying customer I feel that the Dev should at least try to maintain their software. Curious if anyone else has tried emailing him?
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I do find the way he works kinda strange. He’s of course entitled to work how he pleases but I think just some communication with the community would be appreciated especially as people are paying a subscription. Just pin a thread to say “I’m going to be away for x months, but I’ll still be working on the app.”
I’m surprised too by the “big bang” approach to doing huge releases, when deploying small incremental changes is the favoured approach in the software development community. You can keep providing value and fixing bugs whilst getting constant feedback.
I paid for the Reddit version but I’m glad I didn’t pay for the Lemmy version.
Classic sync post
Back when it was useful for reddit I remember thinking one time “Huh, it’s been a while since this app updated, wonder whats up?” Only to visit the subreddit and find out that he’s scrapped the last updated and has been awol for months lmao. Somethings never change.
Still a great app, use it every day.
Personally why I don’t pay for ultra. He can come and go as he pleases, but if I payed for ultra I’d expect more regular updates. He doesn’t want to, that’s fine, but I don’t pay for that.
I purchased the Pro version, ad free, and I’m happy with it. Same as what I had with Reddit, performs the same for me, and that’s all I wanted.
On his Discord on July 15th he said that an update is coming in that week. But since then he didn’t say a peep. So I have no idea what he is doing right now. And honestly it’s annoying. Announcing an update and then vanishing for almost a month again without releasing it.
My subscription ended a couple weeks ago. I didn’t renew it and switched to thunder to avoid ads. If sync gets good updates again, I look forward to subscribing again.
Subscription incentives working as intended 👍
He works in bursts and will be radio silent until he pushes all he worked on. Last I heard he was implementing an include ad blocker which may have been bit more than he could (timely) chew?
Either way I kept my sub. I used the old one for years and years so he’s built enough good will and I have a backlog of value.
Last time he stopped being silent after 4 months he started working on big fixes and such. He did nothing during those months.
It works do I am not complaining.
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Sync version: v24.03.26-14:56 Sync flavor: googlePlay Ultra user: true View type: Slides Push enabled: false Device: e3q Model: samsung SM-S928U Android: 14It’s not uncommon for him to disappear for months (working on other projects, ect) then pop in with a slew of updates to fix things.
At least he doesn’t charge over $100 for premium. Right?
Yup. This is his m.o. ever since the Reddit days.
Hes keeping track of bugs for sure. He gets them done in a mass update.
