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.
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”. :-)