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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.