Evening all, This is a really tough post to write but following my post the other day I think the best course of action is to shut down Sync before the new API changes go live.
Sync for lemmy
LJ Dawson, please develop an app for Lemmy! Sync Pro was and still is my most used app.
I agree. Please. I got so much use out of it. I will even pay for pro all over again to help support development.
If sync become a lemmy client I would be so happy.
Same. I’ve really loved using sync over the last several years. I deleted my reddit account and uninstalled sync today. I’d be thrilled if sync worked with Lemmy.
Sync is the only mobile app I’ve ever paid for, and it was worth every cent. This was the best app for me by a mile.
if it were to pivot to Lemmy or similar I would probably follow wherever.
Same
Watching everyone saying goodbye to their apps they spent so much work on over the years is painful. It’s going to be even harder over the days until June 30th
This is the announcement that got me here. I’m going to spend a few more days simping for Lemmy and answering any questions I can as a novice end-used, and then I’ll delete my 11yo Reddit account this weekend. I’m feeling really good about Lemmy right now though. Hopefully this has staying power for enough of us.
Same for me. Will miss Sync, and it will be a while till Lemmy et al are up to par, but happy to help & to wait.
Don’t forget to download (if you want) & then delete your comments and posts before deleting your Reddit account.
After years on Baconreader, I jumped to Sync. I don’t know how many years it’s been, but I’m sad to see it go. I’m more sad to see the direction Reddit is headed, but it sucks to have an official end of life on beloved apps.
I followed a very similar path and am also sad to see it go.
As a long time Sync user, this really hurts. To me, and a lot of others, Sync was Reddit. It was the only way I really consumed content, apart from the occasional Google search filtered for Reddit results. It was absolutely the only way I participated.
Wishing the best for the dev, and I’m hoping they eventually make another great app for Lemmy.
Sadly, Sync was my reddit app as well. As soon as the app is dead, I will be deleting my account and sticking with Lemmy. Such a shame, man.
Yeah, I went ahead and deleted my account and uninstalled the app to just rip off the band-aid.
Definitely tough, but I’m hopeful for Lemmy.
Honestly if it wasn’t for sync I wouldn’t have used reddit nearly as much, It will be a shame to see it go
So I’m pretty much an Apple person now. I have my iPhone, my iPad, my MacBook, Apple Watch, AirPods Max - you get the point.
But this has been the past 5 years or so. Before then I was heavily an Android person. And at the time, I was kind of into Reddit, but then I got (what it was then called) Reddit Sync.
It was absolutely phenomenal. Blew me away. By far the best user experience for reddit I’ve ever experienced.
Eventually I moved to iOS. I tried so many iOS reddit apps, and quite frankly, they all sucked - until Apollo came along. I think you know how popular Apollo is.
With that said, the guy behind it promised an iPad mode and kept promising it until this year he went “yeah actually it ain’t coming anytime soon”. All the while this dude kept nagging people to get his stupid Apollo Ultra subscription, which was incredibly aggressive. Dude really liked the subscription model.
I picked up one of my old Android phones from my mobile dev days (OnePlus 7 Pro for those who care) and opened Sync. Absolutely beautiful, but it failed to load as I deleted my reddit account the moment they announced these API changes.
I went ahead and paid for the lifetime subscription as a way of saying thanks for all the hard work over the years (Sync has been going on for much longer than Apollo and has and supports tablets too!! What a concept!!). ljdawson seemed like a genuinely nice and friendly person who genuinely cared about his app, perhaps even more so than the profits (which is so unbelievably rare).
It was a good run, ljdawson, but you absolutely killed it 🍻
This was the only ever reddit app I used and it was perfect in every way. What a shame.
Boo. Sync was the app I used.
Sync is such an incredible app. I’ve used it for the better part of 8 years.
This is the one that hurts for me. I guess I’ll have a lot more time on my hands after this month, which isn’t a bad thing.
Just bought Ultra to show gratitude to ljdawson and then deleted Sync off my phone. It’s been awesome using Sync all these years. Reddit will suck without it.
It’s a huge shame. Sync was the last non-FOSS app I still used, it was UST too good to give up. Reddit didn’t deserve it.
I would rotate between Sync and Boost when I had Android. I think both are great and are the best reddit apps I used on Android. This makes me sad for current Android users. I was happy to pay for both when I was on there. And did so.
Time to move forward. Find a new home. I don’t know if I’ll never go on Reddit again. But I’m done with that place mentally and won’t pursue anything on there ever again.
I’ve used sync for close to a decade, it is reddit on mobile for me, and now it will disappear, most likely I just won’t log into reddit off my pc anymore.
Totally valid, I am concerned that they will try and kill old reddit and RES. RES devs sounded unsure if they will be affected by the API changes. If a Reddit result comes up on a Google search I’m not going to not click on it just because it is a Reddit URL. But they definitely won’t get a cent from me.
Yeah, when old.reddit goes my reddit time is gone, without old and RES it’s unusable, and I just will have to deal with not really being able to spend time on subreddits that I really enjoy, it’s just really sad since there aren’t really good communities for it anywhere else, at least yet. I hope there will be some time.
