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Update from @ljdawson (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I reach out to @[email protected] via [email protected]:

Hey,

Nope just been a little snowed under. Hoping to get an update out over the holidays.

Cheers @[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Great news I suppose. He does need to work on his PR if he wants to keep paying users on the app.

There's users from Sync for Reddit who understand this is how he works - months of silence and then suddenly an update.

I'm not saying it's unacceptable, but the lack of consistency and transparency is not for everyone so I understand when people flock to other apps thinking Sync is abandoned.

Thanks for the update, OP.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That method was fine with the old Sync, when it was a low one-time payment, but the new payment scheme came with a promise that it was going to be a full time development. After a year of paying for features I still didn't have, I've switched off of Sync and cancelled my subscription

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah seen it a mile away. Like, you can't live off of 10 subscribers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm betting he had way more than 10. There was a flood of people that signed up when he initially released it, and even today, after a year of "meh to abandoned" effort and a dozen other excellent lemmy apps, lemmy.world is still seeing 5k sync users/month.

It probably wasent "living indoors" money on its own, but surely 1-2k/month is worth spending a few hours a month on keeping an app updated, right? That was what he was promising when he shifted to the subscription model, but old habits die hard I guess.

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