The app has not been updated in more than a month and LJ also has not been active on lemmy and this community for nearly a month. Is he okay¿?
Back when he did sync for reddit, i remember he disappeared for quite a long time(i think half a year or something) before coming back and did a rapid fire of update. In that period of hiatus a lot of post similar to this one pops up too.
I was more worried this time because this is a full time gig so his absence could not be explained by him focusing on his day job
He’s right. LJ has a habit of coming and going. It’s nothing new.
Sync was always a full time gig. The company was incorporated some 10 years ago, LJ didn’t have a full time job for quite some time.
Hmm. I did not know that. I thought sync started as more of a side project
It very well might have, but then really 10+ years ago. LJ was still doing a PhD for some time during the development, but finished in 2018 or so I believe.
dude probably taking a break before the next big lemmy update that will break the app.
I don’t think it will. Most clients have updated to be compatible so it doesn’t look particularly hard
Sync (at least for me) is broken with the latest rc build. I’m fine with this because I’m the silly that is running alpha/beta/rc builds of lemmy on my instance.
With the way the Lemmy community treated him for releasing a “non-FOSS” app, I wouldn’t be surprised if he bailed. I would’ve.
FOSS users the vegans of software.
Nah… The loud foss users are like vegans. Plenty of us are quiet and actually donate to foss groups.
FOSS is lemmys greatest strength and its biggest flaw. Too much foss nerdery on lemmy and it’s boring the average folk.
I wouldn’t say boring, I’d say frustrating. You cannot use Lemmy for any kind of tech support if you’re not using Linux or FOSS software.
If you make a post asking for help with a software you need, someone will ignore you and tell you to use some garbage ass incomparable FOSS version. Use anything not Linux? Use Linux, idiot.
You pay for YouTube premium because it’s $5 per month using the family plan, and you’re okay with paying a few bucks for entertainment? Go die from cancer. Actually, though, someone called me a racist and a Holocaust denier for saying I pay for YouTube premium since I split it between my family, and it’s pretty damn cheap. Their comments were heavily upvoted and mine were downvoted.
Lemmy genuinely isn’t fun anymore. It’s so incredibly toxic.
Oh ya, don’t forget the fuck cars community telling me it’s my fault my city doesn’t have great public transit? Like bro, I moved here a year ago. This city was built hundreds of years ago. How the fuck is that my fault?
You were probably initially downvoted for generalizing and the fact that Google is already doing fine for servers and barely pays creators.
And that’s a great reason to call me a racist Holocaust denier! And it’s great to see their comments get a ton of upvotes, too!
Yeah, no argument that the other commenter went completely off the rails.
Yeah Capitalsim bad - every topic, capitalism bad.
Not to mention the fact that many people don’t know what FOSS means, given that it’s not used widely outside programmer circles and nobody ever defines the term.
I’m still hoping we get more of the general population on lemmy to help it grow, rather than only be filled with programmers.
Lmao that conversation is mental where did you find that guy?
Technology on Lemmy world.
With the Lemmy community not being that big, the circle jerk tends to be everywhere. I personally am really turned off by the extreme and open xenophobia.
Nah, he didn’t care about that at all. Had some lengthy discussions on the topic on the sync discord.
“Thanks for the money. Later, nerds.”
Or, “I wish I wasn’t getting death threats, posts about me attacking my character, all because I released a really good app but included ads so I could get paid for it”.
So again, for the millionth time, Lemmy nerds expect everything to be free and without ads. That’s not how life works, and you throw a hissy fit like a child.
You’re going to ruin Lemmy. Enjoy it.
Shut it all down, folks.
I made a joke about the Sync dev who quit his day job to work on Sync 100%, then ghosted.
Lemmy is dead.
Learn to read. Thanks.
Go re-read my comment that sparked your diatribe. Thanks.
No death threats. No complaining about ads. No saying Sync should be free. Not even any hissy fits. Disappointing, as far as comments go, really.
I never said you made death threats. You responded to my comment, “joking” that the developer grabbed his money and bailed. Your original comment to my comment perfectly encapsulates how FOSS users treat him. You accused him of running away after getting money.
Even if he bailed, it wasn’t for the small flow of cash. It was because of how the FOSS users were treating him. You are welcome to go look at all of the previous Sync posts back when Sync launched, seeing the thousands of comments bashing him for putting ads in the app, and calling him very mean things.
I also never said Lemmy is dead. I said people like you are going to ruin Lemmy. Learn to read.
Points at group of people. “You’re doing all kinds of horrible things.”
Points to person not in the group. “…and that’s why you’re ruining Lemmy!”
Maybe kidnapped by spez
Agreed. Possibly even assassinated.
Or worse… expelled
Or even worse: forced to be a mod on reddit
Classic sync post haha
He’s gone to Vegas. He’s not. But he is probably taking a break. Those late nights and early mornings take their toll, not just on health and well-being but relationships too. Make sure you take a break too.
Thats good to hear. I thought he was ill or something. Yeah better to take rest than get burnt out.
It’s only been a couple of weeks since he last appeared on the discord - maybe he just went on holiday for a couple of weeks.
I wouldn’t worry.
