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Can't wait to say goodbye to Liftoff and welcome back Sync as my daily toilet scroll addiction
I'm testing it now. Honestly you couldnt tell this isn't just like before. The main thing sync has over the other clients is speed. Scrolling the feed doesn't result in it jumping everwhere as images load in. They are already loaded and sized properly. And a million other little things and polish that make it amazing. (Posted from sync!)
It's cool to see it so close to being ready, I'm looking forward to trying it out myself!
I'm loving Liftoff, but I'm still excited about sync.
Liftoff has been pretty great, Lemming looks polished already but it does not seem to be active anymore
Ouch for the liftoff devs
I'm sure it's nothing personal. For instance, I've been using Sync for reddit for over 10 years as my primary method of accessing reddit, so I know this is going to make me a lot more comfortable using Lemmy.
Yes! Meant nothing towards the Liftoff devs, it's the best app I've used for Lemmy. I had been using Sync for about the same amount of time and loved everything about it
I posted this in another thread-
People should expect these reddit apps to be buggy when they come out. I loved and paid for both apps but I think people have pretty unrealistic expectations for sync and boost. The established lemmy apps have a big head start in getting those bugs worked out.
but the devs of these popular reddit apps likely have recycled a tonnn of their reddit app's code into the Lemmy app and and are therefore working with a much more mature codebase that they're also much more comfortable with. for example, I'm loving liftoff but it has so many random bugs that, while not awful, are a bit jarring. and the vast majority of them aren't Lemmy bugs, they're just normal app bugs that haven't been worked out yet. and while I'm sure the liftoff devs are great, it's a new app and will experience growing pains that sync likely won't deal with as much.
I love liftoff but this is like going back home
Nah I'll stay with liftoff. Never used sync.. came from baconreader and liftoff has the same vibe.
I used RIF in Reddit, never used Sync for Reddit.
Now I am using Liftoff here in Lemmy because is closer to the RIF experience among the apps I tried so far (Jerboa, Connect for Lemmy, Voyager).
I am looking forward to see if the experience is closer to RIF than Liftoff, or not.
I've been using Thunder for my RiF clone.
Liftoff has been great. Really got me addicted again to a scrolling feed and the easier navigation. Was starting to break the habit because mobile browser isn't as slick. Been a sync user for over a decade so that'll be my daily driver when it's ready. There's nothing wrong with liftoff, it's just not where my heart is.