Unless anyone knows another reason for this impressive increase in comments? Seems to roughly coincide with Sync launching. If thats the case, just goes to show the importance of good third party apps.
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
EDIT: Looks like a confusingly labeled graph and I think this is total comments. I have no idea why that spike could exist though.
It still puzzles me why it was not added at release.
It is one of the most basic features for a social media app.
Because building features takes time, and sync is useful in it's current state. Why not release it?
You got me wrong, I am happy with the release of Sync. I am just puzzled by the missing basic feature.
Because it's not done yet?
It's a core capability, but it's a lot of work due to all the different types of thing you can post.
An app that can read posts and write comments is still useful without submitting posts, but an app that can submit posts but not read them is pretty useless. So, when you're making stuff you do reading posts first, then you do writing comments, then you do submitting posts. That makes sense, right?
Let's say it takes a few weeks to do each, and you've got to the stage where you've done reading and comments, but not submitting. That's useful already! You're not done, but what you've got is still useful for people and people want it, so why not release it at that point? Then carry on working and release the remaining features after.
Releasing as early as you can is good for everyone - the developer starts getting income for the work they're doing, they learn about bugs and issues earlier in the development process and we get to start using it sooner. For me Sync without submitting is still better than the other apps, so I want to use it.
Not important. The amount of comments:posts is probably >10:1
So having comments being 10x as important than a post is kinda self explanatory.
But the sync app is still in beta so for 1.0 it will probably be done.
Still in beta but already wanting people to spend money to remove ads or get Ultra
The dev needs to eat. You're not forced to give him money, stop complaining.
I'm not saying the prices are too high or not justified. I just don't think you can excuse missing features by saying it's still in beta when at the same time full pricing is in place.
I'll be honest I didn't even notice it was missing until I read this thread, but I'm not too bent out of shape about it
Let's see what you would do if you want to make this a full time job and would want to buy groceries.
I give you ~6 months until your savings are burned through amd you decide that you need to charge a bit or open donations.