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Please put your money where your mouth is. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TheBest@lemmy.world to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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Sync Ultra is a very reasonable $17 a YEAR. YouTube Premium is reaching that per MONTH. I have sync downloaded and it was the first thing I did. Thanks lj for the beautiful app.

[EDIT: That was a poor comparison, as pointed out in the comments. Leaving it for discussion sake.

There are many counterpoints and actually good discussion happening down below. Even if you don't agree, thanks for showing me a different perspective!

If you want to support Sync, make sure to support the Lemmy Devs and your instance holders as well!

*This post was made early in the day before the update added the OTP option.]

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[-] mrfriki@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not comfortable with a subscription model, sorry. I will happily pay for a one-time fee. For the use I do of Lemmy I'll pay up to €5. If they want to release a new version of the app in, say, 2-3 years down the line and ask for a new fee, I'm fine too.

I'll wait until Boost releases (it was my default Reddit app) and will choose between Sync, Boost, Summit, and Infinity paid versions.

[-] 20watts@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It already has a one-time payment option. Try update and look in the settings.

[-] mrfriki@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Well, that was fast :)

Anyway, it is €115. That's way out of my league. I will wait for Boost and see.

[-] Paljoey@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Oh you're talking about sync ultra? Yeah that's expensive af but just to remove ads is cheap. Your also paying for the ability to be a power user. It's not meant for the majority of people, people asked for more features back on reddit, so lj made ultra. It's that and to support the dev.

[-] mrfriki@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I fail to see the remove ads option. On settings I can only find the Sync Ultra section with monthly, yearly and lifetime subscription. I’m on beta 26, maybe is there a newer version?

[-] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Infinity paid version?

[-] mrfriki@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, between those which have paid version (Boost and Sync, I think)

[-] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Infinity for Reddit has a paid version since the beginning of this year, but it's identical to the FOSS version. Its just there so you can support the dev more easily.

[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Why are people so stingy when it comes to software pricing? I feel like the app store model of $1 apps really killed the general publics idea of the value of software and ended up driving the ad based revenue system a lot.

€5 is all you would pay? Let's say you use the app one hour per week for two years, you are valuing that at ~0.004¢. that is astronomically low, and is already based off of a pretty low usage rate.

Do you think the app would provide less value to you over 2 years than a single beer at a bar?

At $20 us (I don't know the cost in euros) and the same usage it puts Sync's value at a still cheap 0.016¢ (USD)

Even if you only used it once per month over a 2 year period it's still only about 20 cents each use.

In my opinion a $20 one time fee for an application that I will likely use daily, with a trusted track record and a quality experience is more than fair. That's the same as a video game I would play for maybe 10 hours or a movie that I will watch once or maybe twice.

I didn't mean to unload on you specifically, but I see this 'outrage pricing' a lot and it irks me.