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.
I have switched apps. Didn't realize I wasn't allowed to share my opinion.
God why do you people keep posting on discussions forums itβs like ugh stop already /s
I find it hard to respect opinions of those who do not seem to respect developers. Lemmy is a very niche product, third-party clients are an even more niche subproduct. We are lucky to get something as polished as sync and if the guy values his own time at $20/user for the good experience with this few paying users, it seems very ungrateful to complain about it without suggesting an alternative to keep the guy fed. There cannot be a very large market for premium lemmy apps. Compound that with designing his app in a way that dns adblocking doesn't break the app. I dns adblock, have never seen an ad on sync, and I still paid for the ad-free version anyway just to support the project.
I am a software developer, I understand what goes into developing software. He is allowed to value his work at whatever he thinks it's worth.
But as users we are allowed to think he is asking too much or pushing too many ads or whatever. It's not disrespect, it's an opinion, about a mobile app that now has ads on the main feed and in every comment section, that only works based on a platform that is very specifically known for being open and not pushing ads. And it's an especially high price for an app that is still very under development and has only recently just gotten an update for the first time in months, even when some features had stopped working.
I have no issues with him asking to be compensated for his work, and I am glad he makes it available for free, but the ads are getting intrusive, and we are all entitled to our opinions. I don't think there was anything disrespectful about the way I shared my opinion, but I do think it's crap to tell us we are being disrespectful just because you don't share that opinion.