Did you check Sync’s customization settings? It has a lot more options than any other app I’ve used before. It has multiple views, it’s own hot sorting method, you can fully configure how comments are displayed, customisable themes, link previews,… Should I continue? Sure the ads are a bit annoying but the devs really deserve it for all their hard work.
Well nobody needs lemmy in the first place. But what I’m saying is that Sync is in fact more polished and has more features than any FOSS app, and therefore it is only fair that it’s not FOSS.
I used sync as well as jerboa - and I think there is a difference, mainly because sync had the benefit of having a parent app that worked for near to a decade, for reddit. Many of the backend elements for reddit is similar to lemmy I suppose, and sync has already been under development for close to a decade, so it’s only expected the app experience has also been fine tuned.
But I still like jerboa simply because it’s open source and funded by donations, and because there is not even the ghost of a tracker anywhere near it. I’ll keep supporting it so that the Devs keep working on it, and so that it has the opportunity to grow into a fine tuned UX too.
I’ve been using liftoff to pretty good results
Update: I just installed Sync, and wow it’s good. There’s so many customization options. I miss the color coded comment indents though.
That option exists boo Settings shortcut: Comments > Show colorful comment indents
Oh heck yeah it does! That’s cool
No one’s saying FOSS is bad but Sync is clearly way more polished than any FOSS app.
deleted by creator
Did you check Sync’s customization settings? It has a lot more options than any other app I’ve used before. It has multiple views, it’s own hot sorting method, you can fully configure how comments are displayed, customisable themes, link previews,… Should I continue? Sure the ads are a bit annoying but the devs really deserve it for all their hard work.
deleted by creator
Well nobody needs lemmy in the first place. But what I’m saying is that Sync is in fact more polished and has more features than any FOSS app, and therefore it is only fair that it’s not FOSS.
I used sync as well as jerboa - and I think there is a difference, mainly because sync had the benefit of having a parent app that worked for near to a decade, for reddit. Many of the backend elements for reddit is similar to lemmy I suppose, and sync has already been under development for close to a decade, so it’s only expected the app experience has also been fine tuned.
But I still like jerboa simply because it’s open source and funded by donations, and because there is not even the ghost of a tracker anywhere near it. I’ll keep supporting it so that the Devs keep working on it, and so that it has the opportunity to grow into a fine tuned UX too.