Have you ever considered potentially incorporating some of the highly-praised UX elements, theming capabilities, and overall user experience from Sync for Lemmy into Thunder?

Many users, including myself, have found Sync’s interface and customization options to be exceptional, as well as leagues ahead of the competition (no offence).

However, there are concerns in the Sync community about Sync’s closed-source nature, as well as the developer’s loonngg periods of inactivity.

Given Thunder’s open-source ethos and active development, do you see an opportunity to potentially fill this gap by bringing some of Sync’s most loved features to Thunder, while maintaining your commitment to transparency and regular updates?

If done right, Thunder could potentially become the new Sync, but open-source, and with active updates.

I’m curious about your thoughts on this and whether it aligns with your vision for Thunder’s future development.

  • misery mansion@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    The only thing really missing for me is being able to set different sorting methods for different contexts

    For example when I’m looking at my subscriptions I sort by new. If I want to look at all of Lemmy I definitely want to sort by top or something else

    Honestly that’s the only thing I’m really missing from thunder

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    19 days ago

    Hey again!

    From the very beginning, my goal with Thunder has been to make it highly customizable. Everyone has their own vision of the ideal experience, and I want Thunder to be flexible and feature-rich enough to make that possible.

    Have you ever considered potentially incorporating some of the highly-praised UX elements, theming capabilities, and overall user experience from Sync for Lemmy into Thunder?

    Thunder’s UX has been influenced by a number of apps, including Sync. That said, it was never meant to be a copy of another app. While I draw inspiration from many of the existing apps out there, my goal is for Thunder to stand out on its own. I know there’s always room for improvement, which is why I rely on community feedback to improve Thunder’s experience.

    Given Thunder’s open-source ethos and active development, do you see an opportunity to potentially fill this gap by bringing some of Sync’s most loved features to Thunder, while maintaining your commitment to transparency and regular updates?

    I do intend to keep building and improving Thunder while staying fully open-source. I don’t expect it to replace Sync, but rather to serve as a community-driven, open-source alternative for those who value transparency and open-source software.

    That being said, development takes time. There are still many features I’d love to implement, but since Thunder is something I can only realistically work on in my free time, progress is naturally slower. Right now, there are only a couple of active maintainers (shoutout to @[email protected]!) who work on Thunder. Additionally, I also have to balance feature development with moderating Thunder’s community spaces (e.g., Lemmy, GitHub, Matrix), which can complicate things further.

    I’m not sure if this fully answers your questions, but I hope it does provide some insight on my general thoughts!

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    9 days ago

    I’m sorry if I’m out of line with my comment here, but this whole post gave me a good laugh. I think it’s akin to asking GIMP developers, “why don’t you just make this like Photoshop” or asking Linux developers, “why don’t you just make this like Windows”.

    I’m sure the Thunder devs would love to bring over a lot of the most popular features from Sync, but it’s not that simple. Looking at the repo, there are already very frequent commits and releases, but there is also quite a backlog of feature and bug requests. You can’t just make one app like another app, nor can you imply that Thunder doesn’t have feature parity with Sync because the devs don’t want it to.

    Add on to that the fact that Sync is a paid app meaning that the developer can justify spending more time on it than an open-source app maintained in the spare time of the devs.

    Anyway, that’s just my two cents. In short, “it’s not that simple”. :-)