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.

  • @[email protected]
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    3511 months ago

    I actually switched to sync too. But still think the prices are nuts and they need to come down for me to pay for it.

    • @i_am_hard
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      1311 months ago

      Would love to support the developer but definitely not at those prices. I block ads anyway, so I never see any.

        • @[email protected]
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          011 months ago

          Too bad mine does not offer paypal…Too god damn many people assume all folks have a CC…

          • @[email protected]
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            111 months ago

            Most people do.

            In 2019, there were approximately 22.8 billion credit, debit, and prepaid cards in use worldwide. This number is expected to reach 29.31 billion by 2023. The number of general purpose and private label debit cards increased 3.8% to 6.28 billion between 2019 and 2020. In 2021, the overall credit card in circulation reached 64 million. According to a Forbes Advisor survey from February 2023, 54% of consumers use a physical or virtual debit card and 36% of consumers use a physical or virtual credit card.

            And the vast majority of those not using them are not valuable as customers.

      • bazovanyi
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        311 months ago

        How to block ads on sync?

    • Alien Surfer
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      311 months ago

      I’m going back and forth still between Connect and Sync. Two reasons: can’t post from Sync yet and 2) lots of failed to load image bugs in Sync (which oddly enough, preview works fine for those images that failed to load).

    • @[email protected]
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      011 months ago

      Waiting for the one time payment to get rid of ads. Paid it on reddit, will (probably) pay it on lemmy.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 months ago

        Wdym? There’s currently two one time payments. Ultra lifetime removes ads and, shockingly, “Remove ads” also removes ads

        • @[email protected]
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          311 months ago

          The money will come if the app is version 1.0 with all essential features. Not earlier. I do not like paying for stuff that is “promised”. Linus from LTT mentioned it many times and I stand behind it.

          Same with promised DLCs and early access.

          • @[email protected]
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            111 months ago

            It’s in v23.x currently. Not v0.23. Nor is it mentioned anywhere on the app store or in the app that it’s still in beta and missing essential features.

          • ANGRY_MAPLE
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            111 months ago

            You know what, you have a good point with that. I do that for other things too, so it only makes sense that it would still apply.

            Bethesda’ Fallout 76 is a prime example of why it can be a bad idea to preorder. I wasn’t one of the people who did, but I remember that there was a pretty big outrage over what people ordered vs what they actually received. Before that happened, I was more naive and believed that some companies cared too much about their image to pull stunts like that. I don’t think people even got the correct bag that was supposed to come with the game. Nylon will never be the same as canvas.

            • @[email protected]
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              111 months ago

              Just the last 5 years feel like a speedrun by every major company to go to absolute hell.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 months ago

          https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/1677830

          The money will come if the app is version 1.0 with all essential features. Not earlier. I do not like paying for stuff that is “promised”. Linus from LTT mentioned it many times and I stand behind it.

          Same with promised DLCs and early access.

          • @[email protected]
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            111 months ago

            What features are promised exactly? As far as I can tell all the same features from the reddit app are here and working.