I don’t know if this is just a placebo effect, but it feels like there’s a lot more socialization and faster upvotes in the past hour Sync was released.

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      Syncforlemmy has 12.8k subscribers.

      Loads of them were poised ready to strike once the beta launched.

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        But aren’t the people subbed here already on Lemmy? I was waiting for the client to come out too and switched immediately, but I was already using Lemmy with other clients before sync came out.

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                The Connect UI is alright in my opinion, but Sync is definitely more polished. That makes sense though, Sync has been around significantly longer and thus has seen a lot more improvement.

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          Lemmy was pretty unusable and hard to post/comment. Default web UI is buggy as hell, you have to reload the page multiple times to post anything or even switch pages when browsing. Jerboa is even worse. For example, I can’t even bloody login into LW through Jerboa!

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            I guess I haven’t run into superbad issues. I’ve been using connect for lemmy before sync and while sync is more stable, I’d say 95% of the time I haven’t had issues posting with connect. That 5% was definitely annoying, but not enough to turn me off interacting.

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        I was literally waiting for sync to pounce. It was nice being away but good lord I never want to use Instagram that much ever again

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      Spez’s biggest mistake was sending all the world class 3rd party developers working to make Reddit better straight to his biggest competitor.

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        Sync has nice features that let you customize your experience pretty nicely. It feels like using Reddit which for some of us that migrated is a great experience.

        On top of that, it is fully functional in a tablet mode style with larger devices and it just works really well. The layout of the app also makes it seem a little easier on the user to add instances and accounts. There is also a migrate button, scheduled theme modes, and other nifty little tucked in features. Give it a try if you like it but the Ultra subscription to help the dev. 100% worth it.

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        Your best bet is to really just give it a try. For me, it’s about the polish and UI customizations.