[june_twenty]

Sync had an awesome redesign of their app recently but ruined it by embedding ads into it. Some of the ads are even animated when reading the comments. As a result, I don't feel bad for the developer of Sync - they had it coming really.

[politelemon]

That's a poor assessment as you're expecting pro features for nothing. Their decision to include adverts does not make them deserving of this.

[june_twenty]

Not only adverts - animated adverts. They are serving data from a free API and looking to piggy back off it. Not only is my assessment not "poor", it is too kind to the developers.

[not_a_shill]

And they shouldn't expect any public API even at a fair rate. No other platform does it at this point.

[Rhedox]

You could've just bought the pro version for a handful of bucks to get rid of the ads...

[Rebelgecko]

Would it be better if they ONLY had the paid version of the app instead of offering both paid and ad-supported versions? To me, it seems ideal to give users that choice. To me the $3 or whatever was worth it to support a good app (even if the dev sometimes goes AWOL)

[max_]

The official Reddit client is worse.

I am sad I won't be continuing to use Sync

[ljm]

The only good official Reddit interface is old.reddit.com really.

I can’t wait for the SPA cargo cult to end.

[mbreese]

Were the ads a necessary evil in response to the API pricing changes?

[kenhwang]

They were present long before API pricing was announced.