Hey everyone. Happy to finally get this out, it's been one busy month.
I'm looking to add a lifetime option for ultra & option to just remove ads. Keep in mind this is the first release, lots more to follow.
Cheers!
Lj
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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Cool! Gonna buy Ultra for a year and then switch to the ad-free version. That's all I can and want to afford. Thanks for your great work!
What ads are being removed?
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.
Probably the ads placed in the app to help pay for development costs of creating a free app.
No shit. Thanks Mr obvious. Lol
Thanks! Great to be back.
Some things never change ๐ (I know this is not sync's problem).
I recently switched instances due to this.
To switch, you make a new account, right? Cannot change your instance once a username is made?
Your username is made on instances. So yeah, you can't just switch. However you could just recreate the username on a different instance though.
So far it's a really nice app and experience (I did hear of sync before but never used it).
Payment will probably be impossible for me since my device(s) are all fully de-googled.
Why does it have 3 stars on the app store
It's brand new and few weird votes can scew the whole. It's only going to improve :)
Now lemmy feels like home. Thanks!
Wow. Awesome. I feel so at home!
Is there any way to get ad free without a subscription? I was happy to buy a paid version of the app before, but an ongoing subscription isn't really what I want.
Edit: it is not advertised as much as Ultra, but there is a one off payment option to remove ads, in the sidebar. Which I purchased!
I think I'm gonna a hold out a little and see how the beta unfolds. I had purchased the no-ads IAP in Sync for Reddit and it kinda always was worse/more fiddely than the (I think equally expensive) Pro version. Purchase didn't always restore after updates, sometimes something changed on the API and the no-ads purchase didn't work for days... Stuff like that, and when LJ came out with Ultra and offered a free year for Patreon backers, it was also only for users of the Pro version...
So please do excuse me for being a bit wary over a no-ads IAP, especially for 15 bucks. This time I would skip that and immediately go for a pro version, should there be one.
Great news.
However, I've become partial to having separate accounts across various instances. Sync enforces having separate settings for each account. I can see this becoming pretty annoying. Does anyone else feel this way?
You could have a backup of your settings and load it up on each account.
This isn't a nice way to implement it. It's at best a workaround.
Others have a toggle for this.
Strange how it's ever only an argument if people are trashing something you like...
And sorry but I must have missed something about sync to understand the hype about it. First sing I saw in google play was the tag for in-app purchases. I'm okay paying for an app but I would prefer doing so beforehand without guessing what I might be paying after installation. Then the first thing I saw in sync was sponsored content. Absolutely not cool.
Connect for Lemmy has basically the same layout as well as the thunder client just without sponsored content. I would totally understand if those client where garbage or had missing features but that's not the case... So what am I missing?
Shhhhhhh. Let people enjoy things they like.
I do, I'd just like to enjoy it myself you know. That's why I asked.
How did you get that to auto play?
I just tried adding a gif, and it only seems to show as a link.
Oh wait, figured it out - it wasn't a gif it was an MP4
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2268cec6-6ce6-46c2-85ca-57960c09b3d0.mp4
Yours doesn't play for me though
First order of businesses.
its a shame that x isn't easily filtered
Use the domain filter and x.com, done.
Cross-Posts don't show.
Typing this from Sync. Heya, let's go!
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but 22โฌ for the ads-free option sounds a bit expensive to me. I bought Sync Pro for reddit for 3โฌ in 2018.
Yeah, what the fuck. I already paid for the old app, what's with the pricing here.
Not to mention - that's just the ad-free option. Sync "Ultra", which I'm guessing is the equivalent of Pro from before, is now nearly ยฃ100 unless I want a subscription.
People don't have any money anymore, or at least I don't. Can't believe I've been priced out of the app market and the dating market, fuck me I guess. Or don't.
Lemmy Ultra = Sync Ultra
Lemmy Adfree = Sync Pro
The old app was simply too cheap, that's that. One-off purchases for $2 are hardly sustainable for individual developers.
Looks nice and all, but what are those "Sponsored Content" blocks for? Is there going to be Ads soon?
If you live in the EU then you probably retracted your tracking permission to Google. Apparently this blocks ads in some places.
That's probably what happened. Ty.
I can comment but I can't make a new post.... Huh. I guess that'll come soon?
Yep it's still a beta, that will be coming soon.
Everyone is free to do what they want, but with the bugs this has, and the ads it contains, and the high lifetime price, it's a hard pass for me
I can handle bugs but I choose to live ad-free and I aint paying that insane price to do so
Adfree is 20 bucks, how is that insane?
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