I’m loving Sync so far. I used the official reddit app ever since I was on Reddit. I sure was missing out.
I saw on the left bar there’s two options “Remove ads” and “Sync Ultra”. What’s the difference? I understand ultra is a subscription that gets ad free browsing and more. However, remove ads looks to be a single purchase “add-on”, i.e. no subscription. Is that the case? That would be nice down the line when sync for lemmy gets an official stable release.
There’s also a price difference. Ultra is 1.99$/mo or 16.99$/yr, and remove ads is 12.99$.
Remove ads is 22 euros here. That’s a massive difference from the old app. Almost ten times more I believe?
Crying in $34 Aussie dollaydoos.
A bit of a surprise; I know I was lucky to get the old Sync pro app for under $2 a decade ago, but wow.
Lemmy still has a lot less users than reddit. The dev can’t rely on tens of thousands of users to buy the app for $1 each. I think he’s doing a great job with this app and I don’t mind supporting him.
Also, the addition of Sync to the lemmy ecosystem will draw a ton of new people in and help grow the platform.
I understand that I got a magnificent deal on Reddit Sync - I think it was on sale at the time.
I was ready to happily drop $15 on the ad free, but this is more than double that.
It’s unfortunate that the price is up, but it’s better than spending for a subscription for ad removal.
Is it better than just, you know, not using sync? This isn’t Reddit. There aren’t ads here.
I understand. I was using liftoff and that was pretty good for me (still have it as a backup). I also tried jebora and connect. Sync is definitely the most polished, even in beta. I’m not going to remove ads until I know I want to stick with sync, but it definitely feels like I’m headed that way.
Try the kbin PWA. The only thing I miss is the ability to collapse comments and that’s coming.
PWA?
Progressive web app, it’s like adding an app from your internet browser. Kinda like a bookmark.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Guides/Installing
Web app
there is this thing called inflation, u know…which makes things cost more overtime :/
It’s the overtime that’s bullshit. Especially when it’s “mandatory” and 1.5x hourly or more.
Its a 4x price increase Sync pro for reddit was about $4 (USD), sync for lemmy is $22 to remove ads
4x4=22?
Ah meant I meant 5x (bad math strikes again 😓)
Strange. I paid £12.99
€22 is £18.90
I bought Sync pro for $2 in 2013, but I assume it went up significantly in more recent years.
Yeah a bit steep - I’m hoping it’s a bad calculation. OP said it’s 12.99$, and other’s have said 19.99$, so I have no idea where EUR22 comes from.