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Sync for Lemmy signup is now open

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As mentioned before I'm aiming to have something ready in the next 6 weeks ish.

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Heading to bed but 3142 signups in 7 hours, LFG!

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- LFG!
  
  I was wondering why you are "Looking For Group" 😄
  
  Seems like that also goes for "Let's F****ng Go"
  
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- Brilliant, my friend. Thank you for your hard work.
  
  I'm going to throw this link here for you to check out. It's a table comparing Mastodon apps which already has a big ecosystem on the Fediverse. Maybe you can find some inspiration. :)
  
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- Ready for the pro version ❤️
  
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- Make that 3143 :)
  
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  Make that 3144!!
  
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- Hey! Late to the game, but I'm hoping to sign up too. Is it full? I entered my email and the screen doesn't do anything after i press "continue"?
  
  Anyways, nice to see you here!
  
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I'm switching to Lemmy because Sync is making the switch

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- Same. Getting that confirmation a little while made me decide to try lemmy out at all
  
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- Yeah I'm new here and all, but definitely curious to see what Sync does for it.
  
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I'll go wherever Sync goes. It was my favorite mobile client for any social app, regardless of the platform. Lemmy it is!

Anecdotally, I haven't logged in to Reddit in more than a month now. It's refreshing!

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- This. Sync was so nice to use that I find myself trying to use all the swipe actions sync had in all of the not so good lemmy apps currently available. None of them are as polished as sync was (and hopefully the lemmy version will be).
  
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  I settled on Thunder for now, but it's still falling a bit short. Some of the navigation is a bit broken IMHO - e.g. opening an external link and coming back keeps bringing me back out of the post back to the frontpage. But it's the least annoying I could find. Tried Jerboa, Connect and another one before this one. Really happy to see Sync coming to Lemmy though!
  
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I genuinly think a good client can skyrocket the number of users. Even if users can just signup and browse all-active

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- Try Liftoff until Sync is ready - it's much smoother than Jerboa.
  
  Just be mindful of the default 'All' view is literally all of the lemmyverse - via that view you can't interact with instances that you aren't logged on in.
  
  Instead change it to be 'All@lemmy.world' to use it as normal.
  
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  Thunder is likely the closest to sync
  
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  Honestly I have mixed results and opinions with both Jerboa and Liftoff... Liftoff, for example, wouldn't even load a GIF that I posted when Jerboa would.
  
  They currently also both randomly crash on me but I think that's most likely related to lemmy.world not being on version 0.18+ yet.
  
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Death to Reddit sync! All hail lemmy sync!

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Nice. Second (whatever we call subs/channels in lemmy) signed up for.

Going to go straight for max pro bleeding edge beta demo for life version, rather than wait as long as I did with Sync.

Looking forward to pop-out subscription nav, floating action buttons, and ultra compact style options, and whatever other QOL improvements you have planned @ljdawson@lemmy.world

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- This is the way. The most used app on your phone is worth a dollarbuck or two.
  
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Can't wait. I'm basically off reddit now cause your app doesn't work anymore. Happily will download when this comes out.

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I've paid for Sync (I forget how many) years ago and have loved it since. I'm so happy you all are switching over and building a app for Lemmy.

Thanks for all you do!

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- When people see the apps being released for another platform. Ppl will use the platform because of the app.
  
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Absolutely buying the pro version the second it's available, Sync WAS reddit for me for the last 11 years.

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Boost4Lemmy already put a placeholder into Google Play store so people can get notified when a first build drops.

Doing the same with Sync4Lemmy would be a good idea...

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Signed up for Lemmy just because you're developing an app for it u/ljdawson. Can't wait.

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- Same - got the notification from the app and started checking things out - account created a few minutes later :)
  
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- "Sync" was the first search term I used in the fediverse!
  
  We all believe in you, u/ljdawson!
  
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Test reply from Sync for Lemmy

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- Test reply sent from Sync for Lemmy!
  
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Somebody pls find spez's mail and use it to subscribe 🤣

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Please hurry, jeroba is weird and breaks a lot.

Thanks, love you

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- I'm using Connect, and it's really good. Not Sync good, but still.
  
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  Same, so seeing this announcement really wet my whistle. > Sync for Lemmy signup is now open
  
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Let's see where this goes. Most communities I switched over from Reddit to Lemmy are quite small at the moment, but with nice apps I imagine it will only grow.

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For those having issues getting the email form to:

Show up at all

Submit once/if it is showing up

Disable your ad and tracker blockers for syncapps.io.

iFor me, AdGuard was blocking the form from showing up at all. Then, in Firefox, dev tools showed that the tracker tool was stopping the form from submitting. Once I disabled both things for the site, I was (hopefully) able to get it submitted. I got the "Thanks for signing up" notification on the site, anyway. I'm not sure if I was supposed to receive a confirmation email, so I'm just hopeful it worked.
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I used Sync for Reddit all the time, happy to see you here.

I hope every third party Reddit developer follow your example.

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I was a paid user since the early days. I think Sync has been very generous with its pricing and extra features and would like to see it continue. Wish you the best of luck!

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My wallet is already waiting eagerly for a pro version.

In the meantime I can highly recommend Connect for Lemmy. Also a highly motivated dev with an awesome app.

It's really fun to try out all these different apps.

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- Thank you for this.
  
  I just installed Connect. Soooo much better than Jerboa and the mobile browser. Actually a much closer experience to Sync than I would have thought.
  
  And I am already contributing so much more cause the experience is that much better. Hearty recommendation guys
  
  Sync is really gonna be a game changer in interaction.
  
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- Yep, am enjoying Connect while I wait for Sync.
  
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- Connect is the best Lemmy app out right now. Great features, look, behavior, and the dev is very quick with responses and updates.
  
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- I just switched from connect to Liftoff. I am liking Liftoff better. Looks nice and I like that comments collapse with one tap, and up/down vote arrows and the reply button are all shown in the comments as a default (rather than having to tap or swipe to see the arrows).
  
  Liftoff also has better formatting options. Here are a few screenshots:
  
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  Can't seem to log in with Liftoff.. it keeps saying that my instance (lemm.ee) can not be found.
  
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- agreed, this is great. Updates keep flowing. A visual separator between posts in amoled mode would be nice but its excellent. Devs should start charging for these already. At least in the settings you can 'buymeacoffee' for connect.
  
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A must have !

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I want in

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Hell yeah! Sync is the reason I joined the fediverse when I heard you're making an app. Been a loyal user of your reddit apps since the beginning, there is no comparison it was the best! Can't wait to see how this project matures. So far, seems to be much better than other social platforms simply because it's decentralized and all the benefits that brings. Things are looking promising and I, for one, don't miss reddit at all!

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Nice

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First Boost, now Sync? Amazing!

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Where do we register?

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Looking forward to it. Thanks for doing this!

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Nothing happens when i press the 'Subscribe' button after writing in my e-mail address. Might be on my side the problem is. Have tried on 2 web browsers on my computer

EDIT: Now i'm subscribed via my smartphone.

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I uninstalled old Sync some weeks ago and I've been missing it a lot. I am so excited for the new Sync!

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Same

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When will this open for all users? I miss the sync experience I had with reddit. It was daily ritual.

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- Me_IRL:
  
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Day one buy for me. Subscribed!

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This is how we cope

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Day one purchase regardless of the initial feature set or bugs, that's how much I trust this app.

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Any chance you'd allow different billing than Google Play? I don't have Google Play Services and that's the reason I had to switch from Sync for Reddit.

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- You can also use a google play gift card.
  
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  I can't, the app itself uses Google Play Services to check whether it has been purchased. And I simply don't have those on my phone so even if I paid, the app thinks I didn't.
  
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I know - no ETAs, but how far approximately the first dev release is?

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- "I know, no ETAs, but can you give an ETA?" 😂
  
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I'm curious how many signups you already got. Your app will skyrocket to the top in seconds once released.

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- 7k
  
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If I had Sync Pro, will there be a Sync For Lemmy Pro too? Happy to pay for it again if needed, but is there a plan for this?

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- Dude, please forget everything what was in this post previously.
  
  I thought (and don't ask why, but I really thought I read it though), you were asking for a free license since you already paid for reddit sync.
  
  Didn't sleep much tonight, if that makes any sense to you.
  
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  Good night.
  
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I liked kbin more than Lemmy but I like sync more than anything. I guess Lemmy is my main go to now. GL and thank you.

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Ummm. I'm a bit disappointed. The site doesn't work on Firefox mobile.

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- I'm just hijacking this top comment to declare I've finally decided what I'm doing with my Reddit account. Instead of deleting it or overwriting it with junk, I'm going to change my password, and post my account credentials around the place on Reddit so some spambot can use my high karma account for whatever the fuck.
  
  If anyone else wants to join in I think it will be very hard for the site admins to squash such activity and actively turn the site to shit.
  
  I also mod a few tiny communities so good fucking luck.
  
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  Sell it. Get some bucks and buy a gift for you kids or significant other.
  
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Excuse the dumb question, but is it going to be just for Android? Or maybe an iOS version too?

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- Go here and follow the instructions to install a lemmy.world web app complete with shortcut that feels pretty close to the UI of Apollo.
  
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Can't wait to buy a lifetime license!

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I never used a third party app but I'll give this a spin lol.

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I hope the old ui customisations will be available, would be great.

I'm also wondering what will be done about lemmy's wierdness about subscribing to subs, where you need to search up the sub on your instance etc.

Even sharing the comment discussions is useless if the recipient isn't already from the instance (probably are but many won't be obvs), the site won't let them comment unless they find the discussion mirrors on their own instance. So how will sync for lemmy deal with these eccentricities (that lemmy devs are also obvs going to deal with in the future)??

Thanks.

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- Yeah this is the wierd one. I still don't fully grasp how to work around, or with it, either.
  
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  One cool thing I've discovered is that at least inside apps, those links with !!!exclamation marks to other subreddits work within the app and within your instance. So that's cool. Not sure if it works with comments, since they're a different structure.
  
  I'll test with this comment from a german instance: https://feddit.de/comment/747555
  
  And the same comment from within my instance: https://lemmy.world/comment/779107
  
  So the second link works but first doesn't, its misread and goes to some other post.
  
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