As a current Thunder and previous Syncfor Reddit user, I can understand Sync's charm.

It's a lot polished, the most polished Lemmy client right now. There's absolutely no lag with weird config (e.g. link preview for Thunder), hell lot of customisation, ability to backup and restore settings, ability to parse virtually any links within Sync and even provide download option, etc.

Sunc benefits from using same old codebase with backend tweaking to Lemmy.

Thunder will ultimately catch up to that, but saying Thunder is current state is perfect and matches up with Sync in features is big hyperbole.

I agree. Thunder is my favorite lemmy app. The devs have put a lot of work into making it accessible so i can use it and i just hope they aren't tired of me reporting accessibility bugs.

I'll chime in on this topic since it's been getting a bit of activity. First, thank you for trying out Thunder! I appreciate all the amazing and supportive comments and it's been nice hearing them from the community. I would like to remind everyone to be civil and respectful for other lemmy clients. They're all being developed by people who have a genuine interest in lemmy as a platform and I'm sure they all want lemmy to be successful.

I personally think that Thunder still has a long way to go before I would consider it perfect. It's only been roughly a bit over a month since Thunder was first developed, and although there has been incredible progress so far, there are definitely a lot of features and bugs to work out! There are still UX gaps to fill in, missing features that have yet to be added in, and so on (that we can learn from all the other lemmy clients out there 😅).

At the end of the day, Thunder is a community-driven FOSS project, and will stay that way. All the work that is being put into Thunder are from individuals who take time out of their day to contribute towards the project. It might not currently have the same level as polish as other apps, but it will get there eventually with time.

I wish we could just stop complaining about lemmy clients as a whole and appreciate them all for helping us migrate from reddit easily.

Thunder sounds cool! I always used Sync for Reddit and found it very comfortable and I loved the features so I was very happy to see that same comfort used for Lemmy too.

Ain't nothing wrong with liking Thunder better if that's what you prefer, Sync just earned a lot of fans over it's long existence

I never saw what the fuss was with Sync for Reddit, but everyone is acting like fanboys about it launching for Lemmy. 😂

thunder was always a problem, until I tried it again recently. wow. well done Dev/s. ur in my top 3 apps now

Yes I really like thunder

Thunder is neat.

I'm fine with jerboa.

I love thunder and all the features I'm looking for are here. And I like how it looks. I don't need to try another app.