Well to be fair, he’s been building and updating the app for 10 years now and just porting it over to Lemmy recently if you want to look at it that way. It’s not an entirely new app out of the blue.
I mean, yeah, obviously the dev would rather people pay the subscription when some of the Ultra features require server work and/or continued costs (translation, OCR, etc.).
Developing Sync is his full time job, which is why it initially shipped without a lifetime tier. People voiced their opinion and the dev listened by adding the lifetime option and the ad free option. If you don’t like the pricing, use a different app. Nobody is forcing you to use Sync. LJ doesn’t owe you the app for free (or any price outside of what he feels is fair).
As someone who bought lifetime ultra on sync for reddit the day he announced the shut down it’s a price worth paying. Used the app for almost 10 years and only paid 5 bucks. He wasn’t sure what was going to happen going forward so I gave what I could in return for that service.
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
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
It’s been only two months. Do not assume that app development is a weekend job.
It’s probably a weekend job, in the way they can only afford to work on weekends on it…
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
Well to be fair, he’s been building and updating the app for 10 years now and just porting it over to Lemmy recently if you want to look at it that way. It’s not an entirely new app out of the blue.
Sync is also being actively developed. It’s getting updated far faster and is far more feature rich than most Lemmy apps I’ve tried so far.
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I got 8 years out of Sync for reddit. You never know.
I also got many years for like four bucks. It kinda of feels like it evens out to me
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It’s not 135$.
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The one time payment to remove ads costs 17€. It’s not cheap but it’s nowhere near 135€.
Eh, I think they’re talking about ultra
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I mean, yeah, obviously the dev would rather people pay the subscription when some of the Ultra features require server work and/or continued costs (translation, OCR, etc.).
Developing Sync is his full time job, which is why it initially shipped without a lifetime tier. People voiced their opinion and the dev listened by adding the lifetime option and the ad free option. If you don’t like the pricing, use a different app. Nobody is forcing you to use Sync. LJ doesn’t owe you the app for free (or any price outside of what he feels is fair).
But you don’t need ultra to have a fully functioning app. If you want to pay nothing you can. If you just want to remove ads forever it’s £17.
Ultra is meant to be a premium experience.
It replicates an option the dev offered on his reddit app that added extra features.
The free app is damn good (especially if you use AdBlock DNS) but it’s almost certainly worth paying the $20 to remove ads permanently.
That option was cheaper on the reddit version of his app but it was well worth it.
$20 is still pretty cheap for no ads. That’s less than two months of a streaming service
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You’re really comparing shit practices by already rich auto manufacturers to one guy who developed a very nice app that has non intrusive ads.
For a lifetime ultra experience. I could realistically get a decade out of it. Ad free is way cheaper too
For an app’s lifetime, not yours or his.
Obviously? I know there’s a risk and I’ve accepted that.
As someone who bought lifetime ultra on sync for reddit the day he announced the shut down it’s a price worth paying. Used the app for almost 10 years and only paid 5 bucks. He wasn’t sure what was going to happen going forward so I gave what I could in return for that service.
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.
i’m using it for free
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Which you could remove for far less than what you’re stating.
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It’s a good thing removing ads for a lifetime is only $20 and not $135 like you are saying
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That a really weak rebuttal, why even bother with such low effort
If that were true it would still be a good reply since you obviously expended no mental effort in your comment.
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“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
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