Afternoon all,
Sync for Lemmy (Android) is now available for pre-registration on Google Play.
Iβm currently working with 100 internal testers to add the final parts / resolve any issues and should be ready to go live within the next week.
Iβll be emailing everyone that signed up with the previous form today too.
Cheers,
Lj
Pre-registered! Canβt wait!
Considering the API/experience is quite different (with its own nuances) in the fediverse, the idea to create an app from scratch was a good idea. Copying and pasting UI code and framework from Sync aside. Especially when the platform is being improved to handle some meaningful load/traffic right now and is clearly needing further development - heβs got time. We are already week 4 of a 3-6 week estimate, and heβs teasing us with some very nice screenshots already. Reddit gave very short notice of the API changes, and they then carried them out. Ultimate subscribers leaving in droves, sadly. Even with the choice he was just making about usernames, itβs clear to me that heβs been putting a lot of attention to detail in the first appearance of Sync for Lemmy. Everything is important when it comes to being a class leader, there is nothing more important than setting the example that others follow or copy. When other developers come into your Lemmy community and try to snipe users so blatently as what has happened - is it any wonder heβs wanting perfection!
Itβs about sending a message. Heβs clearly wanting to show these other android developer noobs how itβs done.
Iβm not even sure the link is formatted correctly? I donβt think there needs to be text in parentheses of an embed.
Canβt wait to say goodbye to Liftoff and welcome back Sync as my daily toilet scroll addiction
Iβm testing it now. Honestly you couldnt tell this isnβt just like before. The main thing sync has over the other clients is speed. Scrolling the feed doesnβt result in it jumping everwhere as images load in. They are already loaded and sized properly. And a million other little things and polish that make it amazing. (Posted from sync!)
Iβm sure itβs nothing personal. For instance, Iβve been using Sync for reddit for over 10 years as my primary method of accessing reddit, so I know this is going to make me a lot more comfortable using Lemmy.
I posted this in another thread-
People should expect these reddit apps to be buggy when they come out. I loved and paid for both apps but I think people have pretty unrealistic expectations for sync and boost. The established lemmy apps have a big head start in getting those bugs worked out.
I used RIF in Reddit, never used Sync for Reddit.
Now I am using Liftoff here in Lemmy because is closer to the RIF experience among the apps I tried so far (Jerboa, Connect for Lemmy, Voyager).
I am looking forward to see if the experience is closer to RIF than Liftoff, or not.
Liftoff has been great. Really got me addicted again to a scrolling feed and the easier navigation. Was starting to break the habit because mobile browser isnβt as slick. Been a sync user for over a decade so thatβll be my daily driver when itβs ready. Thereβs nothing wrong with liftoff, itβs just not where my heart is.
LFG hell yeah, great job man
I remember vividly the day I got a Nintendo 64 when I was a kid. I also had pizza that day.
It was a good day.
Oh yes, I remember, Christmas of 1998, my dad got it for me and my brother, had it with Body Harvest and F1 World Grand Prix, my Dad is an F1 fan, so got an absolutely awful V3 racing wheel to go with it. During covid, I got back into racing games, and went a little mental.
Hi, something you might want to check before releasing; several current Lemmy apps are having trouble displaying lists of very large images. Either they try to load them all in one go, instead of going for the thumbnail as a preview (causing the app to crash), or they only get the preview and then donβt show the full size when opening.
Example:
