My plan is to get an MVP out in the next 3-6 weeks. What should make the first release?
  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
    73·
    1 year ago

    it’s disappointing seeing so many people here excited about something that is not (and apparently not planning to be) free open source software :(

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I def prefer people contribute to the existing open source apps (or make new ones), but overall the more the merrier. I’m happy when anyone builds something for the lemmy ecosystem.

    • CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think it’s more of people wanting to stick with the developers and apps that they have used on reddit. Some of which have been using and supporting for almost a decade. It also means more of an endorsement for Lemmy, as some reddit sync users wouldn’t consider Lemmy otherwise. Lastly, a significant number of power users (those that actually post, comment, and otherwise contribute) use third party apps over the official app, meaning that having support for these apps on Lemmy will hopefully bring over quality users and not just a larger quantity users.

      That’s my take on it, and I am someone very pro open source.

  • sajran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    This is absolutely fantastic news! Sync was pretty much my only way of browsing reddit for a long time. This should make the transition much easier.

    BTW: Hi everyone, that’s my first comment on Lemmy!

  • Aragorn@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    This is exciting! Glad to see Lemmy will be getting so much more attention!

  • OrangeSlice@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Would be great to have other mobile apps fill the gap, so that the devs can focus more heavily on the main site instead of Jerboa.

    • BrooklynMan@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      FWIW, I highly doubt the devs are focused on anything but the Lemmy API right now. In fact, I also doubt they’ve slept in a month.

  • brb@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    This is really cool for Android users. If Apollo came to lemmy, that would be the biggest kick in the teeth for Reddit.

  • topnotch@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Awesome. I uninstalled Sync after they stated it would be going down on July 1st because of the updates. It was the a great app. Looking forward to this.

  • Xeon@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Of course Reddit wants you to either sign in or use the app to view the subreddit. I’ve never used any 3rd party app for Reddit, using Jerboa currently for Lemmy. Curious what Sync will bring!

  • sina@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    By the way, is there a working Lemmy client in the iOS app store that is out of testflight?

    • (っ◔◡◔)っ @lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      That’s too bad, I moved to boost from sync awhile ago because I didn’t like the way the dev of sync was constantly changing the ui and then announced he was going to put some future features behind another (subscription) pay wall, despite being told when you buy the app thst you’d have access to all development features.

    • Liar™️@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Baconreader as of now isn’t moving to Lemmy either ☹️ big sad here, probably my favorite interface.

  • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Can someone tell me what advantages Sync has/had over Slide or Infinity? These are the two apps I’ve been using.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      It’s entirely about your UI preferences, really. Most third party apps had feature parity, and the features they didn’t have were more niche. You could find something each of them did especially well, but the vast majority of features an average user could want were present in all of them. Boost was my preference for a more graphical experience, and RIF was my default for its simplicity.

      Sync has an extremely vocal fanclub because its dev is very involved with the userbase directly, but it’s really not much different from the other graphical ones save for its MaterialYou integration, if that’s something you care about. It’s as respectable an app as the others.

      If they had longer than 10 days to live I’d suggest trying each one to see which fits your preference…but…

    • limecool@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      As an extensive user of Sync let me say.

      The ability to customize change layout, Twitter previews in posts, ability to open comments, subreddits in windows.

      It’s ability to cache comments/threads/videos. So, if android decides to kill Sync due to limited resources I can start where I left instead of having every thing reload from scratch. And lots more. The dynamic Material you theme and the beautiful UI should not be forgotten.

      It’s multi windows feature with its caching feature made it indisputable for me. I had anywhere from 3-6 windows or more active to jump back in anytime. If he brings that to lemmy it would make interacting with lemmy that much more awesome. Waiting to see what’s he got in store for us.

      Here’s a screenshot to show what I mean by multi windows: