It was announced back in June but I haven’t heard anything about it since.

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    It’s been only two months. Do not assume that app development is a weekend job.

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      It’s probably a weekend job, in the way they can only afford to work on weekends on it…

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      Think the Sync dev said he spent 60 hour weeks working about 6 weeks to get Sync for Lemmy up.

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          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.

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          People when developers need to pay for their homes and electricity and buy food: this is a fucking scam, absolute bullshit

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          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.

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          For a lifetime ultra experience. I could realistically get a decade out of it. Ad free is way cheaper too

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                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.

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            You have ads on Lemmy though. Which is free and open source software whos developers disagree with the idea of an ad driven internet. Paying for it to remove the ads isn’t any better though as you are rewarding this kind of behavior.

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          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.

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      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

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    You can have it fast, good, or cheap: pick two, and unless you’re bankrolling the developer you’ve already chosen cheap.

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    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

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      I was originally a sync user and switched to boost when the developer stopped releasing updates. Then sync made a comeback but boost was way better. Im using sync right now as well and im grateful for the option but i fully intend to move to boost

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    I just started using Eternity (formerly Infinity for Lemmy), and it’s about as good as Boost used to be. Kinda killed any hype I had for Boost for Lemmy at this point.

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    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.

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    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.

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    I used to use Boost for Reddit, and thought it was the best app. I’ve been using Connect for Lemmy for ages now and I’ve found it to be very good - there are some teething issues, but on the whole it does a really good job for me of replacing Boost, and it’s always getting updated with info from the users’ own experiences. I will gladly try the Boost for Lemmy app when it does arrive, but for now Connect is just fine.