Lawrence, you're awesome, thanks for making it happen! I paid to remove ads.

I never used sync for Reddit, I was (and remain in my heart) a die hard RIF user. I appreciate the work you've done so much and more than ANYTHING the ability to have multiple columns again. It's sync for me now.

Incredible work. It's amazing having this app come with us.

Thank you for this 🙏🙏

I hope the negative posts aren't too discouraging; some of the foss community here seems to be oddly toxic. If you don't like it, don't pay for it.

Thank you for working so hard and fast! I know there's a lot of people talking down about it being closed source and optionally costing money, but as a long-time user and patron it's completely worth it for the quality of experience you're able to deliver!

A few things I've encountered so far:

• I can't submit/post anything. Is this normal? https://imgur.com/pHeOIm5

• It would be nice to be able to have settings apply app-wide and not be user-specific. It's workaroundable with backing up settings through one account and restoring from the second one but a native solution would be nice to have.

• Hidden posts only seem to apply to the feed and not carry over when viewing specific communities.

• Didn't find any way to search comments.

• Not receiving any notifications.

It's so nice to have this app back!

One quick thing, comment threads can appear out of order when using "top" as the sorting mechanism instead of "hot"

You tend to see child comment chains detached from their parents.

LJ! So happy to have Sync back. I'll happily pay for ad-free. It feels silky smooth so far. I don't see any bug reporting available in the app; should we just do it here? If so, I've noticed that "sort by top" in the comments sometimes will chop off the first comment.

4. I'll be working on regional prices over the coming weeks

Glad to hear that, until then I don't mind the ads. They don't make me wait to see a post or hindering anything.

The app crashes every time I try to select an account or try to login. On some occasions I do manage to login but my feeds and communities are empty.

Also, $30 CAD for ad removal? Sorry but that's too much for me.

Any chance there will be a separate Sync for Lemmy Pro app available? I'd prefer this method as I had with Sync for Reddit Pro instead of the in-app purchase.

Are there any plans to re-implenent the "Sync" feature that the Reddit app had?

Just curious because I need my offline reading!

It's such a pleasure to be back, it's a wonderful app.

Can't thank you enough.

Pricing: I'll be happy to contribute (hell, I even have some Google survey credit rotting there), but honestly the current price is too high, and I don't mind a few ads. My opinion is that with a price point around 5 € / year you could have a lot more people jumping in to remove ads, or at least it would be fine for me.

Splurging $20 on a Lemmy app with my country's currency devaluation is not going to work for me. Nothing against you or the app, the app is amazing and leagues ahead of the competition. But I'm not even sure if Lemmy will be the replacement for Reddit and how it'll all pan out after the hype wears off, so I'm going to wait for regional pricing for this one.

$20 is to much imo. I would gladly pay 10, but for 10 more might as well stick with my DNS block.

When will we be able to submit posts with the app?

Your app is amazing. Take all of my money, please

Thank you for Sync! I'm very happy with the experience so far!

One of the best polished apps for Android ever, and certainly the best for Lemmy.

Happily paying for Ultra :-).

If I may give a tiny bit of criticism: I can't find a way view or set comment language. Is that expected?

Installed and could immediately tell it was a great app. I just bought Ultra Lifetime.

My request would be the ability to collapse comments and to be able to promote certain post options buried in the menu to a button (like bookmark), namely, I use "hide post" a lot, and would like to choose to access it without having to drill into the menu. I recognize others might use other post options more frequently (like share or something), so it would be nice to make that configurable.

Thanks for a great app!! 👍

Edit: thanks to some helpful replies, I now know that I can collapse comments by long pressing on them, and I can hide posts quickly by swiping them to the left!

Are you going to implement a discount on ultras lifetime subscription if a user has already paid for ad removal?

First I want to preface that I actually never used Sync for Reddit, I always used RIF but I wanted to give Sync for Lemmy a shot and see what it was all about.

A few things from my perspective:

1. So I'm using the combined BottomNavigation style, but finding settings or other options doesn't seem all that intuitive. Some of the things, like how to switch from Everything to Subscribed for my feed, I found by accident. Where to buy the Ad removal was also rather hidden, etc...
2. The elephant in the room... Pricing... as a developer myself I get needing to make enough money to sustain your projects, and I get that there's a lot less users on Lemmy than Reddit, but the prices for the subscriptions just seem outrageous. The problem as I see it, is that there's already a healthy competition for Lemmy Apps out there today and most are completely free and have no ads as-is. Some may even be operating in the red, but still $2/mo, $17/yr, $100/lifetime still seems a bit much for essentially:

• No Ads (I've got a PiHole, so honestly I don't see any ads at the moment anyway)
• Cloud Backup -- backup of what? My login? My app settings? The former seems concerning, the later I don't see much value as I only have a single Phone. If I get a new phone, sure it might save me a few minutes re setting it back up. There's not that many settings at the moment that needed customizing. And adding too many makes the app too confusing.
• Highlight / Tag users -- Ok this seems interesting but not quite worth $2/mo IMO.
• Translate text -- I can do this in the web app already just by highlighting a comment. But to be critical here, /most/ of the content is already in English, and I don't subscribe to any foreign language communities at the moment, so this at least doesn't have any value to me.
• Select text from image -- Ok, another interesting feature but still not quite at $2/mo
• Push notifications (coming soon) -- I'm really wondering how this is going to work personally, but this is a much needed feature, at least just for private messages. Probably the feature I'm most excited about.
• Import / export subscriptions -- This honestly needs to be built into Lemmy itself, but there's also a handful of user scripts and other tools other developers have already written that can do this.

Keep in mind I don't have a frame of reference for what the prices were in Sync for Reddit, but cut the prices to about a 1/3rd or 1/4th of what they are now and they seem to be more inline with the value that the app provides over the other apps.

3. The privacy policy. It's a lot longer than I'd hope for a Lemmy app. I'm assuming most of the data being collected is for advertising, but it's still concerning to me.

I don't mean to sounds critical in all of this. The app is probably one of the smoothest and best looking out there so far, but the value to money ratio just isn't there.

Thankyou for all your hard work with Sync over all these years!! One question I had is would the charges be lessened if we buy no ads now and switch to ultra later?