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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

the app feels really premium than any lemmy app I tried but the ads are a deal breaker for me. I would definitely consider purchasing it to support the developer but I can't pay monthly just to browse lemmy. Sticking with voyager for now

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dawson has said that he is currently working on a one time and removal option, so you probably won't have to wait too long.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The option just showed up after the most recent update

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the top left, directly under your account settings

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seen, thanks. Too expensive for me unfortunately (22โ‚ฌ !)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. For me it's only 15โ‚ฌ ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Different countries different pricings maybe ?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I've been waiting for sync to be ready on lemmy and installed it as soon as it was. I got an ad preferences thingy and thought "fuck it, the guy got sync of the ground for lemmy in just a few weeks" worth ยฃ15.99 for the annual sub to ultra IMHO. Been using sync pro on reddit for years of the back of a tiny one of purchase. I figure for the hours I used it, he deserves more than I paid and I'm more than grateful that sync is back.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can I ask where you're seeing ads? I'm using Sync now, and I haven't seen any. What sort of ads are showing?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

i have them but half of the time is just a gray box. I'm in the EU

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you in the EU? I was curious and I don't have ads in Europe.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm in Europe and I had ads, but my dns ad blocker blocked them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Think my DNS is blocking them too, keep seeing comments about ads and I haven't seen a single one lmao

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same here - but I'm also feeling a little bad about it. Every other app? No problem with ad blocking, but i would actually like to support sync.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm in the UK, so (sadly) not the EU anymore... :-(

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

:'-( Are you seeing ads over there?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not so far - I'm not even sure where they would be or what type of ad. Full screen? Top banner? Ones that look like posts? Weird!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, yeah theyre meant to be sandwiched between posts. Mines just an empty rectangle with text though

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh ok, thanks. Not sure why I'm not seeing them. Oh well!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using Infinity now. I was a sync pro user and the ads, tracking and subscription are a nope to me as well

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sync Pro is back now. At a bit of a premium, though, 15โ‚ฌ IAP.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is okay imo. For that the app will probably be maintained for a long time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I sure hope it will, but there's no guarantee. This is still a much smaller and quiet different audience than Reddit's and this might not be worth the effort for ljdawson in the long run. Heck, there were times when he paused development of the Reddit client despite its far larger reach.

I'm honestly a little shocked by the amount of open hostility he got all over the Fediverse for simply offering a premium/ad-supported/closed-source-client.

I'm a little hesitant to pull the trigger on this one, 15โ‚ฌ is just a tad over the pain threshold for an app with an unknown future and there's still Boost to look forward to - I'm waiting to see Boost's pricing first.