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Sync for Lemmy is happening (old.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit:

Official Lemmy Community:

https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy

UNIVERSAL SUBSCRIBE LINK

This should open the community in your instance

Looks like the Boost for Reddit Dev just reserved a Lemmy Community...No official announcement yet.

Proof: https://old.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/14ehiqs/_/jouvuok/

Direct Link to the Community: https://lemmy.world/c/boostforlemmy

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[–] WhoRoger 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can someone tell me what advantages Sync has/had over Slide or Infinity? These are the two apps I've been using.

[–] deweydecibel 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's entirely about your UI preferences, really. Most third party apps had feature parity, and the features they didn't have were more niche. You could find something each of them did especially well, but the vast majority of features an average user could want were present in all of them. Boost was my preference for a more graphical experience, and RIF was my default for its simplicity.

Sync has an extremely vocal fanclub because its dev is very involved with the userbase directly, but it's really not much different from the other graphical ones save for its MaterialYou integration, if that's something you care about. It's as respectable an app as the others.

If they had longer than 10 days to live I'd suggest trying each one to see which fits your preference....but...

[–] WhoRoger 0 points 1 year ago

So I see it's not open source... That's a weird combination for Lemmy, to be honest... Unless the author changes their mind.

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

As an extensive user of Sync let me say.

The ability to customize change layout, Twitter previews in posts, ability to open comments, subreddits in windows.

It's ability to cache comments/threads/videos. So, if android decides to kill Sync due to limited resources I can start where I left instead of having every thing reload from scratch. And lots more. The dynamic Material you theme and the beautiful UI should not be forgotten.

It's multi windows feature with its caching feature made it indisputable for me. I had anywhere from 3-6 windows or more active to jump back in anytime. If he brings that to lemmy it would make interacting with lemmy that much more awesome. Waiting to see what's he got in store for us.

Here's a screenshot to show what I mean by multi windows: