Yeah. It's starting to look like Sync is being ignored or abandoned
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2024
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This is my last month of Sync Ultra sub. It's only a few bucks a month and Sync is relatively polished but I rather the money go towards a actively developed app.
He usually disappears for a while. Pretty normal.
People keep saying that but it's been 3Β½ months now and there are many problems that need to be fixed.
I agree that is a problem, I'm just saying that it's normal and it doesn't mean the app is abandoned.
Maybe not abandoned, but neglected, yes...
Maybe. I don't know why he does it. It's been some health stuff I seem to remember in the back of my head, but other than that he seems to prefer big updates. Don't take it as me trying to excuse anything though. I personally don't think it's a problem but I do understand those that do.
Any particular issues?
Ive been having issues where a lot of videos just straight up dont work
I use connect and not sync and have been having issues with a lot of videos too so I don't think it is just a problem with sync specifically
Anything other than pictures has trouble. Gifs in the past few days have been worse than normal.
For me if I try to open them in browser, it shows this error:
{"error":{"code":"FileAccessDenied","message":"Access to this file was denied for your application.","status":403,"rtfm":"https://github.com/Redgifs/api/wiki/Embedding-gifs#file-access"},"docs":"https://github.com/Redgifs/api/wiki/Embedding-gifs#file-access"}
Hmm by that last link it looks like sync isn't on the list of whitelisted sites. Granted, it's not a site, but an app. Seems like we need some kind of authorisation.
I get a lot of messages about glide failing to load when trying to view gifs as well.
I had that issue a month or so ago, so I switched to Boost. It's not the same, but there's enough settings to customize it and make it close enough. Kinda a bummer, I've used Sync for many years, but Lemmy is evolving fast enough to require an actively maintained app.
If Sync starts getting regular updates again, I would probably switch back.
Lots of them pop open in Safari with an error. I canβt recall the exact text but itβs something about RTFM with regard to imbedding.
I frequently have that problem with redgifs on the website too. Even when I go directly to redgifs. Just earlier today, I was browsing and more than half the gifs I was trying to view failed to load, or were very slow to load. I've been having this same problem with redgifs for as long as redgifs has been a thing. I don't think the issue is with Sync, but with redgifs.
Thanks for the explanation! I hadn't considered that
Yeah, many failed GIFs here too.
Yes I am having the 403 problem too. Very irritating