That method was fine with the old Sync, when it was a low one-time payment, but the new payment scheme came with a promise that it was going to be a full time development. After a year of paying for features I still didn't have, I've switched off of Sync and cancelled my subscription

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah seen it a mile away. Like, you can't live off of 10 subscribers.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm betting he had way more than 10. There was a flood of people that signed up when he initially released it, and even today, after a year of "meh to abandoned" effort and a dozen other excellent lemmy apps, lemmy.world is still seeing 5k sync users/month.

It probably wasent "living indoors" money on its own, but surely 1-2k/month is worth spending a few hours a month on keeping an app updated, right? That was what he was promising when he shifted to the subscription model, but old habits die hard I guess.