It was announced back in June but I haven’t heard anything about it since.
It’s been only two months. Do not assume that app development is a weekend job.
Think the Sync dev said he spent 60 hour weeks working about 6 weeks to get Sync for Lemmy up.
Crazy he’s charging 135$ for his app if that’s all it took to build it. What a scam
People when developers need to pay for their homes and electricity and buy food: this is a fucking scam, absolute bullshit
People deserve to be paid for their labor. This is Lemmy; that’s the default position given our history. There are plenty of free as in beer and speech apps out there if someone doesn’t or can’t pay the price. But software development is hard work, especially if it isn’t a hobby. And a lot of Lemmy apps are hobbyists. That’s the communtiy phase we are in right now. And we are a smaller community, which means fewer paying customers, which means a higher overall cost. LJ can’t throw out an app for $5 and expect a hundred thousand to convert into paying customers off the backs of over a million downloads.
I’ll never understand this criticism of Sync. I hate subscriptions as much as most people, but with software it sort of makes sense because the work never ends. It isn’t like buying a bookcase or any other static item. And Sync, in this case, isn’t like what companies such as LG are doing where they are intoducing forced subscriptions into static firmware to extract maximum wealth from customers.
Plus the some ultra features require recurring server costs.
For a lifetime ultra experience. I could realistically get a decade out of it. Ad free is way cheaper too
“if that’s all it took”
Are you fucking insane? I’ve never worked that hard in my life and likely neither have you
They ported over the reddit version that had been paying the bills for 8yrs… C’mon
We know it took about 360 hours. That’s a shit load of work and it will be a daily job maintaining it. Besides that lifetime price is entirely optional
To get the initial release out. It’s not like there’ll be no more development after that. Plus, there’s the much cheaper price for just add free.
It’s probably a weekend job, in the way they can only afford to work on weekends on it…
The guy who is making Connect did its initial release in 4 or 5 days, I remember I tried it, he was updating multiple times a day in the beginning, impressive
I started Lemmy with Jerboa, switched to Sync, tried Eternity (Infinity), un-installed immediately, and am now very happy using Voyager.
So for me personally, Boost is a little late.
Voyager is pretty good, but it has a lot of missing features. Not only that but it doesn’t behave as well as a native app, because it isn’t. It’s pretty smooth for a PWA, but still no match for a native app.
What missing features are you looking for?
Also worth noting that Voyager now has a native version on the App Store/Play Store that enables more features compared to the PWA version!
Personally, the number one feature I’m looking for is the ability to turn off displaying karma completely.
I just can’t use the app knowing that it’s front and center every time I go to a user page.
What’s your opinion on photon or alexandrite? I like those even more personally.
Alexandrite is very nice when you’re on PC, but on a phone screen its a lot easier to just use a third party app.
Don’t know when you last tried but it was recently updated and has “cards” which makes it a lot more useable on mobile :)
Just be patient. The developer has been active in the boost community, and has stated that he expects release before the end of August. I’m using sync for now til it drops. Boost was my favorite way to surf Reddit and I don’t think it’s gonna change on lemmy
The Dev said in another comment that he expected to release it by the end of August.
Good. I hope it comes out soon. I’m patiently waiting for it!
Definitely taking his time to make sure it drops as most likely the least buggy, most feature-rich on-release Lemmy app yet. He’s gotta outperform the other 20, so may as well learn from them.
Good things take time
