I'm reading many people complaining about the app being abandoned, not being updated for a long time.
Have you tried contacting the developer with your issues?
They last replied to a review on Google Play on 13th Jan 2025. Someone else also mentioned that they received a response via DM. So the developer is definitely still alive.
The app is free to use. It's great if you chose to support the developer by paying for the ad-removal or subscription. Unfortunately, I don't believe the user base is large enough to allow the developer to work on it full-time, or even part time.
Personally, I think Sync is a passion project, hence the original Reddit version was so good. The downside with passion projects is that you work on them when you have time and inspiration to work on them.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that all the negativity won't help inspire the developer to dedicate more time to the project.
It would be more helpful to compile a list of bugs and issues, and forward them to the developer.
Listen. SYNC for Lemmy is so broken atm that I have switched first to Boost (also randomly broken in some ways), and then to voyager.
I love sync, don't get me wrong. And I was a sync for reddit user before I switched to relay. But I'm not the type to stick around and try to troubleshoot an app the developer doesn't prioritize. I appreciate what LJ did for those of us who bailed on reddit. I appreciate that the app gave me the functionality I wanted for Lemmy. But on the other hand, we had prior notice that the update of the Lemmy platform would break things for those of us using third party apps that weren't being updated and that means he had to have known.
When he has time and he gets around to taking a look at the state of the app, I guess I'll circle back. But I am not going to spend valuable time on this if he isn't.
Maybe I should try another client, because Sync is the only one I've used and don't know what is and isn't normal, seems to work great for me
Same here. No issues.
Device information
Sync version: v24.03.26-14:56
Sync flavor: googlePlay