• Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 years ago

      All these shit posts are fun, but why is connect a red haired step child all the time? Any legit arguments against it? Has room for improvement, but it’s the best I’ve found thus far.

      • faintedheart@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 years ago

        The only thing I didn’t like about connect was for image loading. When I click on an image it is blurry and comes to clarity. Loading is an issue. I don’t know if there is any settings for it inside the app. Whereas in sync it loads perfectly fine for me.

  • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
    321·
    2 years ago

    That pill bottle was ripped open and I snorted all that sync as soon as it was refilled.

    • figaro@lemdro.idEnglish
      15·
      2 years ago

      Yup. I had $5 of Google opinion rewards money saved, so it was only 15ish out of the bank account. I work full time… I think I’ll be fine. Plus honestly, the dude worked hard creating a fantastic app. He deserves to be rewarded for that.

      • puppy@lemmy.world
        112·
        2 years ago

        Shouldn’t Infinity have the same polish then? I am a Software Engineer (not front-end though) and I’d be fascinated to learn the technical differences.

        • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works
          251·
          2 years ago
          1. It’s not being developed for that long
          2. It’s a different developer who needs to get familiar with the code
          3. He’s doing it in his free time unlike the Sync dev
        • itsAllDigital@feddit.de
          13·
          2 years ago

          My guess is because it’s not the original developer for the app. So they are still figuring things out on how to transition the app to Lemmy.

          But I have no doubt they’ll get there :)

        • Ghost_Seeker69@sh.itjust.works
          106·
          2 years ago

          I’m using infinity and it does have the polish. I don’t get the fuss about “tHe OtHeR aPpS dOn’T hAvE tHe sMoOtHnEsS!!1!11!”

          • Vash63@lemmy.world
            91·
            2 years ago

            I’m juggling between both and Infinity is definitely less polished. From how reliable the gestures are for going back from comments to posts vs downvoting them, to returning to the same position on a post if you back out to go back in, to the general UI options and settings pages.

          • puppy@lemmy.world
            7·
            2 years ago

            I have both Sync and Infinity (and Voyager) installed side by side and Infinity takes significantly longer to load.

    • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      2 years ago

      Yeah second that. I’m just waiting for community blocking to be implemented, user blocking is there but it’s not working right now.

      • wolre@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        As far as I know, that’s the plan. They just haven’t had an initial non-alpha/beta release yet since the app is still quite unfinished (references to Reddit, certain menus just error out, etc.)

        You usually want to have a product that is kind of working when you ship it to normies

  • IMALlama@lemmy.world
    23·
    2 years ago

    I’m on Jerboa and downloaded/installed sync yesterday. As a former RIF user, I don’t have a horse in this race. I am more familiar with Jerboa, but find the overall feel of both (admittedly, without a lot of use, to be pretty comparable).

    That said, I kind of like some of the ideas in Jerboa more? For example, tap to minimize comments and their children on Jerboa is quite a bit faster. I’m kind of sad that both make selecting some of the text in a comment hard and miss the RIF collapse/expand button. Jerboa also matches the font size of everything else in my UI better than Sync. For example, the font size of this reply and my keyboard are the same in Jerboa. In Sync the in-app font size is quite a bit smaller.

    At the end of the day, I think that both apps are going to be largely comparable for a fairly casual user like me. I bet both offer more functionality than I’m using, but so far I don’t feel like I’m missing anything.

    • frenchdresses@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 years ago

      Just an FYI, you can change the “tap to minimize comments and their children” faster in the settings for sync. Same with font size

      That’s what I like about sync the most, you can customize it to a T.

    • prumbles@lemmy.worldB
      6·
      2 years ago

      I no longer have an Android so idk how the new Sync is, but the version for Reddit was extremely customizable and did have option to disable tap to minimize and give you a button instead. I used Sync daily for nearly 10 years and it’s by far the best experience I’ve had

      • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        2 years ago

        During my reddit days I used boost and sync interchangeably. Because they’re so similar. But the last app I used before leaving reddit was boost.

        Now I’m using Voyager and infinity. I have arctius but it gets less usage.

        I also install and cycle through all the available android apps. And so far amongst the non reddit apps. Connect and lift off were the best, summit is nearly there, thunder can surpass summit of the slow loading and browsing problem is resolved.

    • Laticauda@lemmy.ca
      4·
      2 years ago

      I honestly couldn’t stand Jerboa personally back when I used it so for me it’s nothing like sync (which is my favourite app so far even on the free version), but maybe Jerboa has improved since I left.

      • Nora@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        2 years ago

        It was definitely buggy as hell if thats what you mean. But yeah it’s improved and I don’t have issues with anything anymore.

    • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      I used jerboa for last few months, but I got sync the other day, and it is very smooth but I’m really missing certain things from jerboa I found super intuitive. Also in sync I can’t seem to highlight, copy, paste from a posted comment…perhaps that’s a paid feature only? Also no post creation is kinda lame, and I hope that is not behind a pay wall too. …I don’t mind paying guy for his work, but I can’t afford it.

      I was also a RiF user (:

        • IMALlama@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          In RIF you could tap-hold on the text to select it since they had a dedicated button for collapse.

          • Razp@lemm.ee
            2·
            2 years ago

            There is a setting to select text on long press on Sync. Sync is extremely customizable.

          • st33fo@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 years ago

            Yeah that option is only available for posts on sync unfortunately.

            But a neato system wide thing with Android is now you can use recents to select text on any app. It’s so convenient.

  • panCat@lemmy.world
    3517·
    2 years ago

    Idk who needs to know this , but despite using an alpha version of infinity , it is the smoothest app I have tried so far for lemmy!

  • 99nights@lemmy.world
    162·
    2 years ago

    Huge sync fan and pro user for many years now but I couldn’t get over the subscription and especially the one off cost, it’s just too much.

    Been using infinity for reddit as soon as sync went down and it’s easily my favourite app out of all that’s available but it’s not without it’s downsides, at least to me. So I’ll happily use inifity for lemmy from now on, it even seems to run better then the reddit app lol.

    • PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 years ago

      Same here. It was my second favorite Reddit client (after Boost, and, for a while, Dash), but I feel he priced himself right out of the market. I’m waiting to see what Boost for Lemmy has to offer and at what cost.

      I never really warmed up to Infinity for Reddit, but I’ll give it another shot. Connect and LiftOff aren’t bad either for being this early in development and Voyager just came out swinging.

    • Carl@sh.itjust.works
      41·
      2 years ago

      I just paid for cheapest Sync Beta when I had Reddit, and I loved it… But $30 is too expensive. $5 seems more reasonable. And now I am addicted to using Jerboa.

      • 99nights@lemmy.world
        41·
        2 years ago

        Yeah that’s what I mean, there’s too many good competition out their right now that don’t offer ads on top of lemmy not giving ads in the first place.