This was a comment I made on a “sink” post the mods deleted, and I think it’s an issue that needs addressing, so I’m pasting it here. The comment I replied to said something like “Superscript and spoilers have always worked fine in Sync”.

Ironically, that isn’t valid Lemmy markdown. Sync should be supporting Lemmy markdown, not Reddit markdown. Here’s what your comment looks like on the website:

This issuperscript and you can also dosubscript.

Source:

This is^superscript^ and you can also do~subscript~.

Here’s what it should look like:

Instead, you get this:

Personally I don’t like Lemmy’s syntax for spoilers, but Sync should still support it!

hidden or nsfw stuff

a bunch of spoilers here

Source:

::: spoiler hidden or nsfw stuff
a bunch of spoilers here
:::

I’m surprised that actually even works in Sync. It didn’t used to. However, Sync doesn’t show my code block accurately, which is funny as fuck! No app should be editing my code block. Sync is replacing my text with reddit markdown in order for it to display properly. And even when I put that markdown in a code block, it still converts it to reddit style! It also strips out the warning text!

Here is what I actually typed:

And here’s what Sync shows:

What a lazy ass way of doing it. It removes an important feature: the warning text, and won’t even let me show Sync users how to do a proper spoiler!

Oh, WTF. Sync butchered my comment when editing it! I had to fix it back on desktop.

Sync is not fine. It’s full of bugs that the dev is ignoring.

  • InterSynth@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Isn’t it abandoned by now? I’ve switched to Thunder which is awesome and open source and I don’t have to worry about such shenanigans.

    • haych@lemmy.oneEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      It’s only been 3 months since his last update, he did the same with his Reddit version, it’ll get no updates for ages then all of a sudden he’ll be back with the 10 new features along with big fixes out of nowhere. Hopefully that’s what’s happening here.

        • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          The last update on git was even longer, Sept 14 '23. Pretty sure there have been some major Lemmy updates since then.

      • no banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I’m assuming that’s what’s happening. I get if that is not a value proposition that some people find alluring though.

          • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            01·
            10 months ago

            Yeah, I haven’t understood the obsession with Sync. I was totally going to use it until I realized I had to change three font settings and few other settings just to get a non-busy layout. Then Boost was released and was similar except I had to change zero settings and it costs much less. No thanks to micro-text and weird random padding that doesn’t look good or help read content.

            • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
              01·
              10 months ago

              A lot people just defend it by saying “I’m supporting the dev”, as if none of the other devs for apps that are consistently updated are worth supporting.

              I use and update my app of choice, and I report bugs as I see them, which gets fixed within hours. How is that not supporting the dev? I’ll take a passion project over paid un-updated apps anyday of the week.

    • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I’m commenting from Thunder now. It’s significantly improved since I last used it! I’ll have to give it a chance.

      I’m going to mess with some markdown…

      superscriptNormalsubscript

      Reddit style^superscript

      Damn, those don’t work at all.

      Ah, a nice, fat horizontal rule. Excellent! EDIT: ironically, after submitting the comment, I couldn’t see it because the comment highlight background is the same color as the horizontal rule. I originally was looking at the preview. This is what I get as soon as I submit:

      Warning! Spoiler!

      Just kidding. There’s no spoiler.

      Nice! It’s a shame there’s no toolbar button to make a spoiler, though.

      ! Reddit style spoiler !<

      Doesnt work, as expected. Sync makes these work, which it shouldn’t

      Heading 1

      Heading 2

      Heading 3

      Heading 4

      Heading 5
      Heading 6

      4 through 6 all look the same. I wish apps would decorate the headings to make them obvious and not just vary the font size.

      Oh shit, it even has comment drafts! I just hit Back by accident and thought I lost everything. Still, a warning or confirmation would be nice. Plus the option to just discard the comment.

      • Item 1
      • Item 2
      • Item 3

      Nice! You can bullet a whole list in one click. Even Sync can’t do that.

      Image upload works fine.

      Multiline

      Quotes

      Work?

      Yes! With one tap! Another thing Sync sucked at.

      I’ll have to try Thunder out some more. So far it’s pretty good.

    • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      Basically, yes. No word from the Dev in 4 months.

      I tried Thunder several months ago, and it was… not good. I’ll try it again, but I’m not going to get my hopes up.

      Coincidentally, someone in some other post said, “Voyager is better than Sync” so I gave it a real try. It sucks in comparison to Sync. It doesn’t support Lemmy spoilers in any way, nor horizontal rules, and has a dozen other shortcomings. Some major.

      Even with the bugs, Sync is still a great app with a ton of killer features.