Tap the account switcher in the top left corner and you should see the option.

See my comment for a screenshot. I don’t know why I can’t seem to post a screenshot in the body of post. Every time I try it gets removed.

  • yuriy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    173·
    1 year ago

    god, honestly this has kinda turned me off even trying sync at all. liftoff works fine, and these devs are neither asking me for money, nor showing me advertisements.

    i sincerely hope no one is out here thinking they’re gonna earn a living with an unofficial-app for a fledgling social media service, for which there currently exists no fewer than ELEVEN other fully featured apps in the google play store.

    • unscholarly_source@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      1 year ago

      And that’s a perfectly fine and respectable position to have. In the mean time, I’m gonna go find where I can enter my credit card

    • FlagonOfMe@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’ve used 5 of them. Not a single one is what I would call “fully featured” compared to the million features I loved in Sync for Reddit. Sync for Lemmy promises to be as good, but for Lemmy. That’s worth money to me. If that doesn’t describe you, or most people, then OK.

      • yuriy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        i’ve used 3 and none of them were missing features i needed, what are you referring to exactly? lack of messages is something i’ve seen, and i don’t make use of them myself so i admit i wouldn’t notice them missing. what is there beyond that, customization options?

        i’m not trying to be a shit by the way, i’m genuinely curious.

        • FlagonOfMe@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago
          • A comment and post draft system. You can save drafts to restore them later. It’s really nice when writing an “effort comment” (kinda like this one) and you want to resume it later.
          • When submitting something, it saves a temporary draft in case the submission fails. Several times I wrote a long comment in another Lemmy app and then lost the entire thing when the submission failed.
          • A ton of customizations, so many options and view modes. Customizable actions menu. Excellent contextual button.
          • Cleanest interface of any app I’ve used.
          • Biometric lock for opening the app or changing accounts.
          • Masked usernames in the account switcher for privacy when showing the app to someone.
          • Can pin favorite communities at the top of the subscriptions panel.
          • Separate settings per account. (Kind of a drawback sometimes. It really needs an easier way to sync settings between accounts.)
          • Backup all your settings to a file. (Which can be used to sync settings between accounts.)
          • Can submit a comment as a different account than the one you’re browsing with. (Useful for a quick reply which you don’t want to make as your official account. I like to keep stuff like politics out of my account that’s associated with my real-person online presence.)
          • Long-pressing any setting in the app copies a link to that setting to the clipboard. When pasted in a comment or post, other Sync users can tap the link to go straight to that setting. Useful because there are so many settings!
          • All replies to a top-level comment can be collapsed by default with an option. This is great because the top-level replies are the most important, and then you get to choose which conversations to open.
          • Each comment has a button to jump to the patent comment, and long-pressing that button jumps to the top-level comment of that thread. This is excellent when a comment thread has hundreds of replies and you’re done with it and just want to collapse the entire thread and read the next top-level comment.
          • Speaking of comment navigation, the reddit version had a handy, optional comment navigator UI. Not sure if it’s here yet. It’s there!
          • You can search settings. Really nice to find A specific setting fast, or all settings related to “comments”, etc. I just used it to determine that the comment navigator does exist in the version and I just turned it on.

          I could probably think of more if I spent more time on it.

          Liftoff was the best alternative app I used, but it’s not as customizable. It also had a confusing account switcher. In fact, you didn’t switch accounts at all. You switched instances and had a default account per instance. Switching accounts on one instance required you to open the settings and change your default user for that instance and then switch to that instance. It was even more confusing because you were allowed to change users when viewing the Inbox, but that had no effect on who was actually logged in. I made several comments under the wrong account while using the app because it was so confusing.

          • yuriy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            golly, lotta good QOL in there! thank you for taking the time to type up this reply, and extra thank you for not talking down at all. people really do be getting spicy about this lol

            • FlagonOfMe@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              I’ve got some more.

              • You can long-press (and hold) a thumbnail to peek at the full image it came from without loading the link in the browser. Sometimes I see an interesting pic like some recipe, and I just want a closer look without loading the entire recipe site. Also works great to see YouTube thumbnails in detail.
              • You can change the default feed from Local, Everything, Subscriptions, or even a single community (and have it be different per account).

              Here’s a partial screenshot of the image peeking: