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Think a fair few comments on it's price is warranted considering it's 25 USD (where historically sync for reddit was significantly cheaper)
I mean you don't have to pay for Ultra. Sync is mostly free. It's just a few extra features that are premium, so what are you all complaining about.
25$ isn't for ultra though but just to remove the ads, ultra is more expensive still
Ah I didn't even catch that. Either way you can use sync without paying
What does Ultra get you?
No, no, no. You're not allowed to complain about a price hike from ยฃ2 to ยฃ19 even though the apps are basically the same in UX and concept and LJ was able to push out a semi functional beta in a matter of weeks. Because complaining about it makes you a 'baby' apparently and everyone should be willing to part with ยฃ19 without blinking, to buy an app to use a service that has barely gotten off the ground and nobody knows will be around in a year at this point. I understand people are excited, and people want to support LJ (I have, loads, over the years) but this community doesn't seem to even want a proper discourse about this and prefers to resort to shitty insults. Not sure that's the kind of community I can see myself growing into, personally. To me, that asking price is insanely greedy and a bit delusional considering there are other strong alternatives already popping up. I've been loyal to Sync for 10 years I think, but times are tough money is tight, and nobody knows if Lemmy is going to succeed yet. We need big numbers on this platform and keeping costs down would surely aid in that effort. But he must have done his calculations so I respect his decision. If he doesn't revert I'll have to look at the alternatives.
No one is forcing anyone to pay for it. The app works fine without paying a dime.
Maybe we wanna buy it. But in my country lifetime of Ultra is 117 dollars. 117.. dollars.. Sync for Reddit cost me 4. Yes 4. I'm not even going to calculate percentage increase.
Sync for reddit Ultra was not $4 for lifetime. Removal of ads may have been. In the US its $99 for ultimate lifetime. $20 for lifetime removal of ads. Also the developer has already said he's working on regional pricing.