With the ad adjustment came these banner ads on the top of comment sections and they are atrocious so much so I don't bother reading comments anymore. They all have the obnoxious white backgrounds and they flicker since they move. It feels light no matter my phones britness they are blinding and since content doesnt get loads of comments the banner is just distracting while reading. I'm on board with ads as I haven't paid to remove but this specific style changes how I'm using sync now.
New here commenter chiming in...
You do raise some good points about maybe there not being as many customers as I thought, but there sure was a lot of buzz when the app first launched. Sync for Reddit was an very popular app. We essentially got kicked off of reddit and didn't want to be there anymore, so we moved the Lemmy.
Hell, maybe it was only a few hundred people paying $20 and a few dozen paying for lifetime Sync Ultra at... $99?
But the Discord server has 2600+ members. If even half paid $20, I would think we deserve to be able to edit titles on our posts 6 months after launch of the app. Or use the proper Lemmy markdown, or not crash when you enable certain features, but that wasn't the case! (Plus a hundred more bugs.)
If you charge money for an app, it shouldn't have such dumb bugs for literally months. Don't charge a premium price for a beta app. $20 is kinda nuts for a phone app where there are free alternatives that do exactly what you want 9 times out of 10, but maybe aren't as fancy or are missing a bunch of niche features.
I'm not trying to rail on LJ too hard. I don't know what demons he has. But saying we're "lucky" to get a hasty hack of a reddit app rubs me wrong. Especially when having to pay for it or get horrible ads.