I don't get why instead of making posts about "Don't use Sync!" no one is saying "Feel free to use and pay for whatever you like! But as a friendly reminder please note that you should also consider helping your instance owners or the core Lemmy team as well."
There's nothing wrong at all with paying for software, and even some will be fine with ads. It has literally nothing to do with anyone else but that person. Let them do them.
Like I say though, I think the thing that should be being said is that the app is not self contained and that these people should seriously consider helping out the other aspects as well if they can. But hey, no, let's just belittle them and push them away instead of welcoming them. I can almost guarantee that the availability of Sync will bring more users to Lemmy that never would have been here otherwise.
I think the “hot take” that needs to be said here - and surprisingly I have not come across it yet - is that it’s totally fine if you’re willing to pay 20 dollars for the app.
However, please remember that the app itself is not self contained. It relies on the hard work of the Lemmy developers and the instance you use staying online. Please consider sending them some money as well down the line. If you get the app for 20 dollars as a one time payment, maybe some future payments - even if considerably smaller - can go towards the latter.
Super odd because it doesn't happen for me in production or development so I thought it was fixed but Sean confirmed it wasn't. I'll look into it tonight.
Just for more reference, there are options to enable analytics, but they are not installed in the app. That is a separate package that is not added as I don't feel comfortable receiving whatever they would send. It's probably harmless but I don't even want the hassle.
Sort issue is fixed now in App Store release. Apple is really weird and never approved the TF release that would have come before that, not sure what's happening there.
Sorting by new posts works now too.
As far as crashes, these might be fixed now because of some issues we had with the loading of lists.
For the record, we had to overhaul two major parts of the app to maintain performance - both state management and the UI library. The entire app relies on these two things, and there were some performance issues with the old way we did things as we continued to add new features. We needed to get it out of the way now.
It hasn't been perfect, and both Sean and I have been busy with other things in life as well, so that's why it took a while to get these things done. Hopefully there will be less issues going forward.
I found out what the issue was with Lemmy.world. I’m going to have to do some rewriting of this to remain within rate limits. That’s the biggest reason for the issues.
As Sean said, there is a toggle. However, I want to note this was an accident. It should not have been enabled by default, and I have reverted that particular change. In the meantime though, you can just change the toggle under Appearance.
There's a toggle for this under Appearance. Let me see if it got changed (accidentally) to default to enabled. If that happened, it isn't the intention.
Edit: Yea, it was changed. I'm reverting that back. Anyway, you can just disable the toggle for now. Thanks for the heads up.
Edit: Also, this wasn't the intention but the setting was enabled by default now (before it was disabled). I'll be reverting that change as I don't like it either.
Took most of the week off for personal time, but should be knocking out a bunch of stuff over the weekend and rolling out some of the final big things that are missing. Thanks for sticking around and waiting on us :)
I don't get why instead of making posts about "Don't use Sync!" no one is saying "Feel free to use and pay for whatever you like! But as a friendly reminder please note that you should also consider helping your instance owners or the core Lemmy team as well."
There's nothing wrong at all with paying for software, and even some will be fine with ads. It has literally nothing to do with anyone else but that person. Let them do them.
Like I say though, I think the thing that should be being said is that the app is not self contained and that these people should seriously consider helping out the other aspects as well if they can. But hey, no, let's just belittle them and push them away instead of welcoming them. I can almost guarantee that the availability of Sync will bring more users to Lemmy that never would have been here otherwise.