It was announced back in June but I haven’t heard anything about it since.
It’s been only two months. Do not assume that app development is a weekend job.
Think the Sync dev said he spent 60 hour weeks working about 6 weeks to get Sync for Lemmy up.
Crazy he’s charging 135$ for his app if that’s all it took to build it. What a scam
Well to be fair, he’s been building and updating the app for 10 years now and just porting it over to Lemmy recently if you want to look at it that way. It’s not an entirely new app out of the blue.
People deserve to be paid for their labor. This is Lemmy; that’s the default position given our history. There are plenty of free as in beer and speech apps out there if someone doesn’t or can’t pay the price. But software development is hard work, especially if it isn’t a hobby. And a lot of Lemmy apps are hobbyists. That’s the communtiy phase we are in right now. And we are a smaller community, which means fewer paying customers, which means a higher overall cost. LJ can’t throw out an app for $5 and expect a hundred thousand to convert into paying customers off the backs of over a million downloads.
I’ll never understand this criticism of Sync. I hate subscriptions as much as most people, but with software it sort of makes sense because the work never ends. It isn’t like buying a bookcase or any other static item. And Sync, in this case, isn’t like what companies such as LG are doing where they are intoducing forced subscriptions into static firmware to extract maximum wealth from customers.
For a lifetime ultra experience. I could realistically get a decade out of it. Ad free is way cheaper too
“if that’s all it took”
Are you fucking insane? I’ve never worked that hard in my life and likely neither have you
You can have it fast, good, or cheap: pick two, and unless you’re bankrolling the developer you’ve already chosen cheap.
Bankroll means just pay the app fee, its not that high for someone from any first world countries, right?
The Dev said in another comment that he expected to release it by the end of August.
Just be patient. The developer has been active in the boost community, and has stated that he expects release before the end of August. I’m using sync for now til it drops. Boost was my favorite way to surf Reddit and I don’t think it’s gonna change on lemmy
I was originally a sync user and switched to boost when the developer stopped releasing updates. Then sync made a comeback but boost was way better. Im using sync right now as well and im grateful for the option but i fully intend to move to boost
I haven’t used sync, but content filtering was one of my favorite features on boost. I had filters like “opinion” to reduce the amount of opinion pieces on news subs.
I just started using Eternity (formerly Infinity for Lemmy), and it’s about as good as Boost used to be. Kinda killed any hype I had for Boost for Lemmy at this point.
