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The sense of loss from the fediverse hits hard sometimes (lemmy.ca)

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[–] Harbinger01173430 63 points 2 days ago (21 children)

I am using sync

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I finally uninstalled it the other day. It's clear the dev has abandoned it.

[–] MajorasMaskForever 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did you uninstall it purely because it hasn't received any updates or was there some feature you wanted or bug fixed that led you to that?

I've been using sync for nearly a decade (maybe longer, I forget when exactly) and it's not uncommon for LJ to not update sync for long periods of time, so I don't really see no updates in nearly a year as an issue. (Plus as a dev myself, I hate the idea of constant releases, though I do spacecraft software so maybe I'm just really oddly biased)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I'd been experiencing a bug where I couldn't see comments on communities from my local instance. It would show the comment count but not show any comments.

I'd been using sync for the same time, since LJ first released it. It's an issue because the Lemmy API is changing faster than Reddits, and he's also charging a heavy subscription fee. I think with that there should be an expectation of support and updates. At the very least, provide communication about what he's doing and working on.

I'm also a dev, and it's funny you say that because I hate the idea of NOT doing regular releases! You want to release small changes frequently, get the value out and get fast feedback. You don't want users to sit on bugs for 6 to 12 months while you wait for a huge big batch release. But I'm a dev who works primarily on backend serverless stuff, we can release as much as we want, every 5 minutes if we wanted to. Obviously phone app development has a lower release cadence as it has to be approved by the official stores and roll out, but the way LJ seems to ghost a project and then do a huge release is kinda weird.

I don't want to sit on an app that's buggy and getting zero updates while Lemmy instances keep getting updated, hoping that one day the dev might come back and update it.

The dude just needs to communicate what he's doing to the community.

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