It was announced back in June but I haven’t heard anything about it since.
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?
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.
For a lifetime ultra experience. I could realistically get a decade out of it. Ad free is way cheaper too
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.
“if that’s all it took”
Are you fucking insane? I’ve never worked that hard in my life and likely neither have you
What is boost for lemmy?
Boost for Reddit was a very popular third-party Reddit app. After Reddit’s API changes, causing the third-party apps to shut down, the Boost developer is now making an app for Lemmy.
Did you ever use the official Reddit app? I personally do not like it very much. The third-party Reddit apps were just a whole lot better, at least in my opinion and others. Apps like Boost and Sync were both very popular Reddit apps, but have both now moved on to Lemmy.
I started Lemmy with Jerboa, switched to Sync, tried Eternity (Infinity), un-installed immediately, and am now very happy using Voyager.
So for me personally, Boost is a little late.
What’s your opinion on photon or alexandrite? I like those even more personally.
Alexandrite is very nice when you’re on PC, but on a phone screen its a lot easier to just use a third party app.
Voyager is pretty good, but it has a lot of missing features. Not only that but it doesn’t behave as well as a native app, because it isn’t. It’s pretty smooth for a PWA, but still no match for a native app.
What missing features are you looking for?
Also worth noting that Voyager now has a native version on the App Store/Play Store that enables more features compared to the PWA version!
Definitely taking his time to make sure it drops as most likely the least buggy, most feature-rich on-release Lemmy app yet. He’s gotta outperform the other 20, so may as well learn from them.
