MVP
Most Valuable Program?
This is going to be a game changer. I've been using Sync Pro since 2015 and can't see myself using anything else for mobile browsing. Thanks for the awesome app!
This is awesome! Thank you!
I'm literally getting emotional. For me, Sync was reddit. Been using it for over 11 years. Can't wait to be an early adopter and never let go again.
If you need beta testers familiar with the original Sync or anything, happy to help!
Excellent! Sync was my first and only Reddit app. I think I had multiple lifetime subscription s to Sync Pro. Very glad you are continuing with Lemmy! I've been done with Reddit and haven't been back since the day I saw that you were shutting Sync down.
That's fantastic news!
This is great news.
Please charge a lot
Take my money!
This is super exciting to hear! Sync was my favorite reddit app.
Thankyou, this is excellent news. Syncfor Reddit was one of the slickest apps I've ever had the pleasure of using. So there's no one else I'd rather have working on a Lemmy app!
@ljdawson@lemmy.world I'd love to collaborate on QA for Sync for Lemmy! Let me know if I can be of assistance!
You've made my day! I've been a Sync for Reddit user for over a decade, my Google play review is from 2014!!!
As a thank you and goodbye I recently bought lifetime ultra, I hope that's helping in the development of Sync for Lemmy! 😁
Wow that's awesome news. Thank you!
You're the real mpv here... What a king.
Awesome! You should probably also make a SyncForLemmy community too.
EDIT: Nevermind, there is one! https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy
The whole fediverse needs some serious UX work.
Well yeah, but that's the difference between volunteering and being on a big salary. Hopefully the influx of new users will lead to more code input though, and more donations.
The end of Sync is the reason why I will leave Reddit at the end of the month. So nice to see that we eventually might get a new app for Lemmy!
Same And double samez
It's exciting to see all these apps ramping up development. Honestly, the greatest gift that Reddit gave to the fediverse is sending all their former third party developers here, because that will greatly accelerate development.
Thanks Obama... I meant Spez
Yep, i'm permanently on Lemmy with this news.
I agree. Been using Jerboa as well and it's nice and usable enough as a placeholder, but I'll be watching the Sync development. Can't wait!
Jerboa has been nice, besides the weird glitch where it shoots me back to the top of a post when scrolling down. Lol
Otherwise it's pretty good for a FOSS solution!
nah.
Mastodon has great apps and they are FOSS. Jerboa is "better-than-nothing", it is bad.
As a recent lemmy convert from reddit who exclusively used Sync, this made my day. Thanks for the news.
This is HUGE! I was really missing Sync.
I saw it in the redditsync subreddit already - this is such great news, especially since I'm still struggling to get used to the Lemmy interface. I had bought Sync Pro 7 years ago and it is probably the most heavily used app on my phone.
Wow, I've never even used Sync but from the screenshot of the Reddit app on Google Play it's one of those UIs so good that make you want to use it. I'm currently fine with the Lemmy PWA but the more feature-complete Reddit apps that get "ported" to be used with Lemmy the better, especially to ease the transition for new users.
Just created an account then downloaded Jerboa. I am +/- ten minutes old here in Fediverse yet. About to delete my 11 year-old account in Reddit. Thank you u/spez
I already bought Sync for Reddit twice. Removing ads from the free version the first time (it was still called Reddit Sync back then) and then again for the 'ad code not even included' pro version earlier this year. Guess I'll be buying Sync a third time.
Or more specifically, Google will be buying it for me with the cash they paid for my data.
Now THIS is good news!
So many good news. Glad these developers are also trying out other options since Reddit has started shitting itself.
The Apollo dev has said he doesn’t have an interest in making another app sadly
I will pay full price, day one
I used both but Sync for me always held and edge, I believe it's subjective like most things its down to personal preference.
I was always a rif guy but I've seen so many posts here about sync, seems like a lot of people loved it. Being about to reply to a comment from my inbox, or at least navigate to where its at in the thread, would be a nice upgrade!
I'm hoping we get a Lemmy is fun app personally
I'm genuinely so excited for this and and the same time hoping boost makes one too. They recently dropped their latest update and it looks beyond pretty with the rounded edge cards and adaptive colours.
Never used Sync (I used RiF then slide) but I'll check it out when it's released. The is great news for lemmy and the fediverse. Oh and fuck reddit.
I heard that talklittle (RIF dev) was working on something for tildes, wonder if they're interested in doing so for lemmy! Very exciting :D:D:D
Oh, if he makes one for Lemmy, I'd absolutely get the premium version for it on day one! RIF was great to use.
LIF
This is great news. If you aren't familiar the dev is very committed, hard working and responsive. Sync was packed with features and customization.
this is amazing!! sync for reddit is such a gorgeous app i was sad to leave it behind
Great news!! I would rather Infinity for Lemmy, but it's a great step in the right direction to make a best community. Althought Infinity is open source. If I were programmer I will do Infinity for Lemmy. But I need time before know how to program.
Please, to some programmer: make this posible!
I will pick this up day 1! Been using sync for years and have always come back to it.
thats amazing news!
Im enjoying Jebora, but happy to switch to something which throws less errors.
This will really legitimize and mainstream the platform!
I am a Boost for Reddit User, but have seen Sync and it is well designed. Jerboa is cool but it is not there yet. The experience the dev from Sync brings to Lemmy will be amazing.
Not asking for features but would be good if kbin is included with it so that user fragmentation is limited. I still don't really understand the difference with Lemmy but it's cool.
My understanding is its all different UIs creating/cataloging content via the ActivityPub standard and it comes down to the different "types" of content being emphasized or focused on. Lemmy focuses on"link aggregation" ala Reddit, Mastodon does "Microblogging" ala Twitter, kbin does and supports both.
Really, I think one of the only reasons kbin hasn't exploded like the others, is because of that split nature. The Mastodon blow up and the Reddit blew up were both instances of people looking for a very direct replacement to the thing they were leaving, rather than something that was, from their perspective at the time, a replacement with extras. Kbin could also use more devs though, I think they just have the one who is doing it on donations alone.
Yes, I haven't tried it myself but my understanding is that kbin is exactly that. What kbin calls a "magazine" maps directly with Lemmy communities/subs and a kbin user can subscribe to a Lemmy sub via the same process they would use to subscribe to a kbin magazine. Kbin microblogging maps directly with Mastodon posts and so a kbin user can follow Mastodon users and their posts the same way they follow fellow kbin user microblogs.
Been Joey for Reddit user for as long as I remember.
I wanna try Sync for Lemmy. This is way to go!
Sync is a great app! Been using it for years
I've personally sent the developer an email regarding Joey for Lemmy. Would be neat to have the same ol experience here. :)
I really hope alpha or beta is available soon because the current apps are really lackluster sadly...
I will purchase Sync Pro for lemmy when it comes out.
It's been an outstanding app for me on the old site, and I look forward to firing it up again in a much better online environment.
I have been struggling with the thought of removing Sync from my phone, purchased premium 9 years ago and it was easily my most used app. So happy ljdawson decided to move the app here, I would pay for premium in a heartbeat on the new app.
They have an official Lemmy community for it:
I will buy it again, such a great implementation.
Does the playstore allow developers to make a page for an app not yet developed? Would be cool when reddit shuts down 3rd party apps to have the sync for reddit app send you to a sign up page for sync for lemmy.
There's technically nothing stopping the developer from just releasing the Lemmy app as an update to the current play store app. After all, the Reddit app will be non-functional in a little over a week, but it's not like Google will force him to remove it from the Play store.
guessing this is going to be an Android app and there won't be an iOS variant? regardless, happy to know there's an app coming sooner than later and look forward to being able to easily browse Lemmy on my phone again.
Just fyi, there is an app already, I've been using it. It's called Jerboa. Not as good as Sync, but still very usable and it looks great (the dark version anyway :D).
I don't think so.
But there's also the Mlem app, I believe that one is for iOS.
nice. I've personally been more of a Boost user my self so was a bit disappointed to hear the dev was not planning to port or support lemmy which I understand. so far jerboa has been decent but I'll keep an eye out for others.
I need an iOS app
I can't find it now but I saw that there was one currently in development. EDIT: actually looks like there are a few. One called Lemur, one called Mlem, and the one I was thinking of is called Artemis.
Awesome thanks! Yeah I see Mlem and Lemmur’s test flights are full. I’d love to check out Artemis.
I’m trying one called Memmy that I like so far. I just joined a day or two off TestFlight, so hopefully it’s not full.
Jerboa is pretty good, hope iphone gets a good version as well
Jerboa has a lot of problems, especially with link and media handling. I actually much prefer just using the chrome "install this website" thing to get a launcher icon. Sync should be much better than either.
And this is the kind of thing I liked about the reddit apps that I hope we get here. Personally I find Jerbia to be okay but flawed, installing the website to be a bad enough experience that I nearly gave up on trying it, and am holding my breath for the RIF dev to make a Lemmy is fun or something.
What I reaaly want to see is a few different options to cater to the different tastes people have.
maybe try using script to make it look like old reddit - https://github.com/soundjester/lemmy_monkey
Great! We can all move to Lemmy and leave Reddit for Spez.
sweet, would love for it to come to iOS as well at some point
How's it compare to RIF?
Experiences are subjective, so, take this with a grain of salt.
I like Sync better than RIF, Narwhal, Boost, Slide, Bacon Reader, Joey, and the official app.
The customizability in Sync is immense and the UI is the best for a mobile reddit app.
It's way better imo, polished af and the dev is pretty active. I was happy to pay for it. Very lightweight compared to RIF and BaconReader. It also has a neat feature where it will Sync (lol) a decent chunk of your frontpage, along with the comments and other stuff. It was really nice in the bad old days when unlimited data was rarer than unicorn milk, since you could load up on your wifi and then not use your 2GB of data/month when you were at work/school, traveling, etc.
Give it a shot, there's a free app still on google play for the rest of the month. I found it way better, though I've only used RiF in the very beginning when I was trying to find "my" app, once I got hooked with Sync, there was no going back.
This is awesome! Sync has been amazing and I'm super excited to see it come to Lemmy
YES. What a great app!
Hell yeah
Yes! my addiction will survive...
This is great news! My favourite reddit app for years, very smooth and feature packed
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Hi everyone, first comment on here. Going to try to get an MVP out within the next 3-6 weeks.
I'll be posting updates on discord:
https://discord.gg/dhRbpzJXsM
Cheers, Ljdawson
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