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Sync is better, just adapt
tl;dr: That's a nice argument, why don't you back it up with a source?
I'm trying Sync as a holdover while I'm waiting for Boost, and I've found some things that annoy me a bit. I've purposefully left out any minor bugs that seem like regressions from changing the codebase to work with Lemmy, so the only things I'll critique are purposeful design choices.
There is seemingly no easy way to synchronise settings over accounts. This makes initial setup with multiple accounts frustrating, and future changes a little annoying.
By default, the floating action button and the 3-dot menu at the top right open the same menu. Why are there 2 different buttons on the same screen that do the same thing?
Changing the default text size (which is too small imo) is not easy, as you have to go and change at least 4 or 5 different font size settings for post titles, selftext, comments, comment details, etc. And even then, when I'm typing this right now, it's too small and I can't find any configuration option to change it Why is there is no global font size?
There are a few small things that just don't make sense. For example: if you completely collapse a parent comment you're still able to tap it to have the upvote/share controls despite being unable to read it. In contrast, Boost smartly opens the comment when this happens.
There are a few other small things that mildly irk me, but other than these things my Sync experience so far (1 day as of writing) has been somewhat positive.
Claiming that it's superior without any reasoning isn't very productive. If you want to show your support for something, surely you can think of at least one reason that it's better, right?
For me it's the bizarre inability to set a subreddit's default view mode to be swipe. That extra button tap every time I'm on a picture heavy sub is a real chore. Boost can do it so why not Sync? ๐คท