The linked post essentially performed a benchmark of lemmy apps and if they properly display the formating options available. Sync got 3rd last place, position 18 out of 20 apps, with a score of 6.9 out of 10. There’s a comment that essentially contains the test set. I hope we get some fixes, cause some of the problems have been around for a while.

In my personal experience the issues with spoiler tags, and some of the embedded images and their sizes is rather annoying. For example this comment shows perfectly fine on desktop, but becomes a garbled mess on sync (as you can tell by my comment, blaming the bot). Also note that while sync technically gets 3/3 for the images, the last image should be text-sized between the “arrows”. It isn’t, it’s just huge (and consequently a pixelated mess).

Edit: fixed link to example comment for spoiler.

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    The spoiler tag issue is an especially big problem as it comes up a lot. I still can’t let go of Sync as it looks and feels the best, but it would be nice if this stuff got fixed.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah the new media bias bot that posts on many communities uses formatting that looks fine on Lemmy UI but weird in sync

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        I really hate bots like that. I know the creators mean well, but posting on everything just makes it meaningless.

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          There is actually evidence that the creator does not mean well at all. And it very well might be a propagandizing bot that is trying to shift the Overton window by labeling center and right leaning media as left biased.

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          Right? And it makes it a lot harder to know which posts actually have comments. I wish it showed none if the only comment is a bot I’ve blocked but I understand that could be more work than it’d really be worth. It’s relatively minor.

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        Had to block the bot because it was so obnoxious. Good to know it’s sync causing the issue.