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.
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.
His last message was 2023-11-03. That’s a few days shy of 4 months.
The last update on git was even longer, Sept 14 '23. Pretty sure there have been some major Lemmy updates since then.
Sounds frustrating and erratic
“No don’t you see? It’s cool!”
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.
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.
I’m assuming that’s what’s happening. I get if that is not a value proposition that some people find alluring though.