how does it compare to jerboa and connect, ive been meaning to switch full time to connect but im just used to jerboa now even though I miss that swipe to next post feature

[–] ScorpionFrog 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've been using 5 different apps trying to find my favourite and I like Jerboa the most, until yesterday when I found Sync.

[–] ConstipatedWatson 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I tried Sync yesterday, but didn't have a lot of time to fiddle with it. What makes it so great everyone's excited? I checked it out and couldn't immediately see it having a clear edge over Jerboa and Connect (but it looked nice)

I was further thrown off by the fact that if I wanted to buy it, I'd need to pay for a yearly subscription (and in that case it didn't look cheap)

Honest question for who can answer

[–] PsychedSy 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Probably the settings and ui smoothness are what I like. I set view to compact, switch the default touch action, move the image previews to the right and turn on colored indent lines.

After I open an image preview in connect it lags weirdly when I close it. Some of the text entry when commenting felt slightly jank to me, but I've been using sync for a long time.

[–] ConstipatedWatson 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! I've implement your suggestions and am trying them out. It looks nice! I still am not completely sold, but am liking it

[–] PsychedSy 1 points 11 months ago

There's a lot in there and lil j daw gave us a way to link settings, so in the sync sub people link straight to settings.

[–] baruchin 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Boost for Reddit all time user here so I'd never tried Sync before. When I took a dive to Lemmy, I tried Jerboa because it was the closest thing to Boost, great little app, but it think it needs some aesthetic polishing. The I tried Connect, and oh boy it's fast, functional, pretty (although it needs some design polishing also), and I made it look like the closest to the classic Boost list view.

Then Sync for Lemmy was released and I wanted to know what was all the hype about. How could it be as good or better than Boost for Reddit?, I thought. Well, two days and I'm seriously thinking if I ever going to switch to Boost for Lemmy when it becomes available. Blew my mind!

Yes, there are some things not quite there yet (not being able to submit posts the major flaw for me), but design wise is just aeons ahead of any other Lemmy app.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Posting is coming soon. He's just adding all the features, like crossposting, which I don't think any apps support yet.

[–] warmaster 7 points 11 months ago

It's just the new gold standard. Every app trying to compete for the biggest userbase will have to match or beat Sync.

Apps that ignore Sync and just target at FOSS minded users will share the remaining portion of the pie.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I only used Jerboa, but sync is far superior. Jerboa was so glitchy, it worked about half the time. Sync is very smooth and the developer is on it about fixing any glitches that may pop up. I've been using lemmy with jerboa since reddit closed the door on 3rd party apps, and I couldn't be more relieved to have sync back.

[–] iRyu 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I copied this from another comment of mine. My advice is just give it a shot! The set up is super quick and the app just works.

For features: incredibly customizable material design. Extremely fluid. A lot of view customization. Comment drafts are something I missed on voyager.

Paid exclusive features: Cloud backups, user specific highlighting and theming, pull text from images, translate text, saved post folders (coming soon). No ads (yes the other apps don't have ads and are generally free).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I don't think I have any app, Lemmy or otherwise, that follows Material You so well.

[–] 20watts 2 points 11 months ago

Sync is Jerboa and Connect with the best ux :)