Looking for an alternative to Sync, because I’m tired of not getting updates from LJD despite it being a paid app. Unfortunately, thus far I’ve tried about half a dozen apps and none of them quite give me as much customisation options as Sync did, especially on the feed view. Few of them even come close. Does anybody have a recommendation for a highly-customisable app?

  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    I, too, abandoned Sync after paying for it. I’ve come to despise the dev and the app. He’d do things like release breaking changes then disappear for months. Markdown never worked right because it used Reddit style markdown for things like superscript, etc. And one day he decided to add markdown to post titles with horrible results, and no way to disable it, then disappeared again.

    At any rate, I switched to Thunder and I’m perfectly happy with it. It’s customizable enough, and I guess I’m ok with the things I can’t customize. I also tried a bunch of apps, and Thunder was definitely the best.

    Edit: oh, and the spoiler tags! Editing a comment would replace proper Lemmy style spoiler tags with incompatible reddit style ones. WTF!

  • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    4 months ago

    I realize this is slightly off-topic, but I always end up going back to using just a mobile browser.
    It has features that I haven’t found in apps: multiple tabs, bookmarks, built-in ad blocker, etc.
    TBH, before using lemmy, I had almost forgotten how it was to use a website that’s not outright hostile to mobile browsers.

    My use case might be wildly different and I’m not saying wanting an app is invalid at all, and the web UI itself also has room for improvement.
    Just… the browser actually works here compared to places like reddit and I keep going back to using that.

  • bcgm3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    I switched from Sync to Thunder months ago (mostly for user tagging) and I don’t feel like I gave up much in exchange.

      • aeharding@vger.social
        1·
        4 months ago

        What options are you looking for? Its possible the options are just buried and/or labeled differently than you’re used to

    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksOP
      3·
      4 months ago

      The last update was 8 months ago, so yes, you’re probably the only one getting frequent updates. I don’t mind it being a paid app, as I believe devs need to eat, but given how long his current hiatus has been, it feels very much abandoned.

          • BeN9o@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            4 months ago

            When you say about it being a paid app do you mean repeat payments? Because I paid less than £5 for sync years ago and still use it for free on Lemmy. I don’t think I’m helping the dev eat anymore. It does exactly what I need it to. No need to be mean to people that still like sync.

            • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksOP
              1·
              4 months ago

              No, I’ve bought the app as a one time payment a few times, starting back with reddit.

              No need to be mean to people that still like sync.

              I’m not here to bash Sync or anything. If LJ were to show up now with an update to fix broken stuff I’d happily continue using it. I’m just not looking for somebody trying to proselytise sync to me. I’m here with a specific question, and he’s making completely unrelated and unhelpful comments. Sync works for him? Great. What does that have to do with me wanting a new app that suits my needs? Not to mention he flat out bullshited in his first comment, about frequent updates.