• .DonutsEnglish
    42•2 days ago

    Great news I suppose. He does need to work on his PR if he wants to keep paying users on the app.

    There’s users from Sync for Reddit who understand this is how he works - months of silence and then suddenly an update.

    I’m not saying it’s unacceptable, but the lack of consistency and transparency is not for everyone so I understand when people flock to other apps thinking Sync is abandoned.

    Thanks for the update, OP.

    • @[email protected]English
      17•2 days ago

      That method was fine with the old Sync, when it was a low one-time payment, but the new payment scheme came with a promise that it was going to be a full time development. After a year of paying for features I still didn’t have, I’ve switched off of Sync and cancelled my subscription

      • @MaalusEnglish
        2•2 days ago

        Yeah seen it a mile away. Like, you can’t live off of 10 subscribers.

        • mosiacmangoEnglish
          5•2 days ago

          I’m betting he had way more than 10. There was a flood of people that signed up when he initially released it, and even today, after a year of “meh to abandoned” effort and a dozen other excellent lemmy apps, lemmy.world is still seeing 5k sync users/month.

          It probably wasent “living indoors” money on its own, but surely 1-2k/month is worth spending a few hours a month on keeping an app updated, right? That was what he was promising when he shifted to the subscription model, but old habits die hard I guess.

          • @MaalusEnglish
            1•1 day ago

            Sync is mostly free, so those 5k users most likely are running that. I know I am. 1-2k a month is pennies when you are a programmer.

            • mosiacmangoEnglish
              5•1 day ago

              The median wage for a programmer in the US is right at 100k. 1-2k/month is 12-24k/yr.

              I cant think of a single person who thinks 12-24% of their yearly salary is “pennies.”

              Either way, those “pennies” came with a commitment. He could have done a low one time cost like sync for reddit and faffed about, but instead he committed to subscription payments, and those carry an expectation of support and features. As a programmer, he know this.

              The simple fact is that people are paying for something they aren’t getting.

    • Tywèle [she|her]English
      14•2 days ago

      It’s especially bad when he announces that an update is coming in a week and then he vanishes for months without releasing said update.