Let’s face it: the app has been abandoned for longer than is acceptable, especially at this price level. It’s no longer working correctly on newer Lemmy versions, and there’s no indication the dev is still active.
Yes, he worked similarly during Reddit times, but a) Sync was much cheaper back then, and b) Reddit didn’t change as much.
Right now, to unsuspecting users Sync seems great given the 4.9 star rating on the Play Store. They’ll possibly buy this app before noticing that it’s subtly broken.
Please consider giving Sync a bad rating, but if you do so, explain why. Write about the broken functionality, so others don’t fall into the same trap.
But but… I like Sync? I use it on both platforms and it seems to be fine.
Have you not had any issues with all the comments of a thread being missing? About 30-40% of the time I open comments where it says there are anywhere between 3 and 20 comments just to find no comments. I open the thread in browser and all the comments are there. I’m having to constantly bounce between sync and Firefox just to read comments.
And no it has nothing to do with the selected languages, I tried selecting all languages in my settings and it makes no difference. Additionally, the same users whose comments are missing show up fine in other posts, and the bug affects the entire thread regardless of user, no comments are visible in the bugged threads.
I have had that happen a few times but they appear after dragging down to refresh. I just figured my internet connection was being wonky.
I’m happy that you like Sync, I do too! But it hasn’t been updated in a long time, and some features don’t work anymore with up-to-date Lemmy instances. With coming updates, Sync will stop working entirely. The roadmap the dev talked about hasn’t appeared in almost a year. At this point, new users should be made aware that buying Sync as-is is a bad idea.