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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2515668

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sync is (in my opinion) the smoothest way to experience Lemmy at the moment. I used Sync for about 10 years on Reddit and have had nothing but good experiences

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I know Sync is very popular, so I'm going to give it a go. However, after trying many clients (Jerboa, Connect, Summit, Liftoff, Lemming, Thunder) my favourite so far has been Liftoff.

ETA: First impression - why is all the text so tiny? I can barely read it. I need my glasses ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I personally like the small text! I used the smallest setting on the reddit version of sync. I like that it makes it harder for someone to read what I'm reading over my shoulder ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My old eyes don't like it ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I found it tiny as well. I also enjoy Liftoff the most , it's my option of choice. Think the only feature I miss is that when you share an URL, it doesn't auto populate the Title. Jerboa does this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I miss this as well.

[โ€“] SpeedLimit55 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah the default text is small. Go into the general settings and change it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I must be blind (ha!) But I can't find general text settings. I've increase the size of post titles and descriptions, but comments are still teeny tiny eyestrain-o-vision...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's called Base font size and is under the General section of the General section of Settings. I had to increase mine too, it's crazy small by default.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wonderful, thank you! Now it's at least usable.

Not sure if it's good enough to get past the ads though...

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I like Sync, having messed around with it a little today, except I didn't realise when I paid for it that it doesn't (yet) have the capacity to create a new post, only replies on existing ones. I dunno, I kind of assumed that making new conversations would be a fairly high priority...

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's... interesting. I guess it's in beta, but it does seem odd to not have post creation functionality. I guess they've released it for people to use as soon as there is something worth using, hopefully features come thick and fast.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a big sync fan! Might buy the ad free version sometime but jerboa has really grown on me so I might just donate to them this time instead

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Tbh I'm not a fan, I noticed I kept going back to liftoff. Been trying Jerboa and Connect as well.

Great to have choice as well!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not tried Sync yet, but have been using Connect for Lemmy on Android and finding it pretty good.

I keep falling back to the native browser interface in Chrome on the desktop, as most other "apps" still have pretty big omissions.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I find myself using the website as well, no matter how much I try to use apps.

The "Show context" bug is super annoying at the moment though.