I did a poll and nearly 30% of the people who voted said they used Sync! It’s stayed around that percent the whole time too!

EDIT: Here is the poll I forgot to put this here like five times lol https://strawpoll.com/wby5A21R1yA

  • CautiousPickle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12533·
    10 months ago

    After reading this I decided to try it out. Within 5 posts there were ads. No thanks, I’ll stick with Connect.

    Edit: I was scrolling everything and replied. I didn’t see this was in the official community. My opinion doesn’t matter in here. I think it’s great that sync is successful and I hope it continues. So yea, keep on keeping on.

    • geogle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7219·
      10 months ago

      It’s a single developer that should be paid for his work. You can easily upgrade to the ad free version for a few bucks…

    • YAMAPIKARIYA@lemmyfi.comEnglish
      43·
      10 months ago

      I’ve been using systemwide adblock on all my electronics for years now so I forget that in app ads are a thing. But yeah, I see your point. They do offer a one time purchase to remove ads.

      • reallyzen@unilem.orgEnglish
        259·
        10 months ago

        Me too, which makes Sync an endless scroll of black squares where ads should be. No thanks, Connect it is.

        • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
          142·
          10 months ago

          You might need a better adblocker. With AdGuard I see an empty box from time to time. It’s in the colour of the background.

              • AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.idEnglish
                115·
                10 months ago

                I know, i would pay for it (as I did buying the reddit pro and dev versions) but I don’t consider that it has a fair price and I don’t support subscription models either.

                I’m happy hopping between connect and eternity. Boost beta is coming next week as well, so I’m not worried at all.

                Scrolling through those black spaces is for sure a bad user experience for me, but to each his own

                • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
                  51·
                  10 months ago

                  It’s good we have plenty of options. I’m going to try Boost as well because it’s the app that really hooked me to reddit and in the end it brought me to lemmy. Although Sync has been so great there’s no guarantee I switch. And if Boost released earlier, I probably wouldn’t even tried Sync. Let’s see them compete. Or collaborate. Or both.

              • dezmd@lemmy.worldEnglish
                31·
                9 months ago

                I’d pay 5ish bucks like I did for RIF, but for now ill just donate to Liftoff or other open dev without ad injection needs. Id rather buy Sync outright for a few bucks than have yet another ad platformed app running.

        • Laticauda@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          I use nextdns and I don’t see any blank squares. It just looks like it’s ad free.

      • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        22·
        9 months ago

        I just ditched apps that show ads so now I don’t need a system wide adblock on my phone or computer. Ublock Origin in Firefox is enough

    • Klystron@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      286·
      10 months ago

      I’ve used sync for almost ten years now… I think it’s worth the fee to remove ads. But sure, there are ads.

      • guywithadeathwish@feddit.ukEnglish
        17·
        10 months ago

        It’s strange, both on Sync for Reddit and Sync for Lemmy I’ve always seen the space for ads, but never an actual ad showing in that space. So I just get random black spaces between posts

      • vihil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        132·
        10 months ago

        from someone that used Connect before Sync was available: it works but feels like someone’s hobby. lots of issues and quirks to work around. Sync is absolutely perfect and I wouldn’t be using lemmy without it.

    • anonymous_bot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      10 months ago

      FWIW you can use list or compact view and it won’t show ads (for now at least). Or just pay the pricey one-time fee to remove ads.

      • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        20·
        10 months ago

        That must be why I’ve never seen ads. I see people bitch about it every time someone mentions Sync, but have literally never seen one. Also the dev is a bad ass. I’ve twice mentioned bugs in release threads and he’s fixed them within a few minutes each time.

    • Master@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      10 months ago

      Your opinion matters! Yea the ads suck but if you like how smooth the app is you can get rid of them for a very small fee. But if you are happy with another ap, Connect, more power to ya!

    • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      I had to trawl through the cookie settings and manually disable every single option. After that I no longer see any ads, just a space where the ads should be. Annoying that I had to do that though, with Reddit Sync I’d paid a one off fee I think and never saw any ads.

      I get it though. I think this app is the devs main job, and the user base is significantly smaller than what it was for Reddit so he’s having to put ways in to recover some income.