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Well I mean he got paid before as well during reddit times. From what I heard the app is basically the same switched to the new APIs.
seemingly no matter where or how you say it, if you imply sync costs too much someone will show up to needlessly defend it
With all due respect, do you even develop?
uhhh.. I guess so?
My point was that Sync is overpriced, not that devs couldn't demand money for their work, of course.
Again, this is only from what I heard, since I didn't use Sync during Reddit times but apparently it was cheaper back then, so he raised the price for switching from Reddit to Lemmy - which I think is overcharging.
Of course it's more than changing some URL, but it's less work than actually making it from ground up - for which he used to charge less.
You see my point? Of course you may disagree with me, but I don't think my point is so outragous that it calls for "insults" (?).
I was going more for the meme then for insulting, sorry. The main problem is the API is very different between the platforms, for what I've seen I don't think this is a trivial task. Also there is a lot more to deal with than when he was developing for reddit, his app account for federation problem/features that aren't implemented in any other app yet.
Me personally still prefer Jerboa, but I think the Sync dev deserve credit for his work, and how much he thinks he should charge is subjective.
As long as this money isn't going to a big corp this is fine. Also he brought many to the fediverse with his action.
When I say it's a lot less work than making an app from scratch I'm mainly thinking about the UI/UX design which only had to be adjusted in Sync's case. I do lots of UI design for private projects and work, so I know that it's a big part of the workload.
What do you mean? I'm no Sync expert but I did test out the app and didn't notice any special features. I'm especially interested in instance related tech since that's kinda the USP of my own App, Nemmy.