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Thank you for the work put into it and congratulations on the release. It feels great to be back (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Yuuki2628@lemmy.world to c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world

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[–] Arethusa@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Love Boost! Was happy to see the notification that it auto downloaded after I had registered months ago.

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[–] Maximiliano@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Noice, is there any way to add a custom instance in the login form?

I can't seem to login into one of my accounts since the Instance is not in the drop-down.

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[+] Pratai@lemmy.ca -12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

People pay to use a free site?

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[–] Anduin1357@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People pay for a custom smartphone client to the Lemmyverse.

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[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why? There’s tons of free ones.

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[–] Traister101@lemmy.today 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why do you even use a client. Just use the website dum dum don't have to install an extra app for no reason then. Stupid right? That'd be because the user experience is better with the custom mobile clients.

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[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mlem, Memmy, Voyager…. ALL free.

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[–] Traister101@lemmy.today 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

As is boost. I'm not sure why you guys get so freaky about ads. You can just not use the client or hell pay a few bucks and not have them. People who are paid for their work tend to produce higher quality products. What's the problem with a dude being paid for his labor?

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[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

No one is being freaky. Just curious why people pay for something that’s free to use.

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[–] Yuuki2628@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's supporting a good client

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[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There’s tons of good free client options.

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[–] trainden@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can still donate to those too. It's good to support the dev(s) of any app you like, FOSS or not.

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[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It’s fine to donate to developers for making good products, I do it often… it’s altogether different for a developer of an app to ask their user base to pay in order to remove ads that other apps of equal quality that are free to use don’t have.

To each their own, we all have things we like to burn money on.

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[–] Yuuki2628@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know that, and boost is also free in that regard. Doing a donation to support a client isn't a bad thing, it's a way of supporting the developer behind for all the hard work taht went into making this

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[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Donating to a developer because you like their product is one thing. Paying to remove an annoyance put there by the developer so they can make money is altogether different.

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[–] Yuuki2628@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It's the first thing I did after logging in. I would've done a donation regardless if this was here or not. I just loved boost when the Reddit version was alive and this isn't about the ads

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