• SaintWacko@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    That method was fine with the old Sync, when it was a low one-time payment, but the new payment scheme came with a promise that it was going to be a full time development. After a year of paying for features I still didn’t have, I’ve switched off of Sync and cancelled my subscription

      • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I’m betting he had way more than 10. There was a flood of people that signed up when he initially released it, and even today, after a year of “meh to abandoned” effort and a dozen other excellent lemmy apps, lemmy.world is still seeing 5k sync users/month.

        It probably wasent “living indoors” money on its own, but surely 1-2k/month is worth spending a few hours a month on keeping an app updated, right? That was what he was promising when he shifted to the subscription model, but old habits die hard I guess.

        • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          2 months ago

          Sync is mostly free, so those 5k users most likely are running that. I know I am. 1-2k a month is pennies when you are a programmer.