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828 open issues. 20 pull requests. trying to orchestrate complex control over all major os'es. uggh what a nightmare. long time user, it's always been great. runs most of my home. absolutely invaluable. i'd love to see standards, a mouse & keyboard & clipboard standard protocol emerge some day.
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There was an open letter from the CEO just last week about re-staffing the team to be more engineering-oriented: https://symless.com/blog/open-letter-synergy-team (Edited, thanks corpMaverick and stagger87)
Not everybody. They let go "all staff whose role is not purely hands-on Software Engineering" I feel it is the right thing to do, so they can focus on improving the product.
Seems like a really terrible plan, when you need to retrain CSRs to do your engineering.
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Not everybody. They let go "all staff whose role is not purely hands-on Software Engineering" I feel it is the right thing to do, so they can focus on improving the product.
Except it looks like Nick fired everyone except himself and one customer service person who is 'Rather excitingly, Sarah is also spending some of her time to improve her software engineering skills so she can help with developing Synergy' ( https://symless.com/blog/open-letter-synergy-team )? Seems like a really terrible plan, when you need to retrain CSRs to do your engineering.
I'm the CEO of Symless, the company behind Synergy. I wanted to chime in and let everyone know that you can ask me anything (reply to this comment).
I've been working on Synergy as the lead developer since 2006 (before I started the company). Synergy 2 is an early beta and is still under development (the final version will be quite different to what's you see now). All users have access to Synergy 1 (https://symless.com/synergy/downloads) which is the recommended version and is still being developed. If you need a refund, that's absolutely fine, please get in touch: https://symless.com/contact
Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help you.
Thanks, Nick
Synergy used to be great, the original developers really knew what they were doing, but since then it's been taken over by a commercial developer that seems to have no interest in making a good product and far more interest in charging money for it and licensing - more bugs are introduced with every release, clipboard support is half-broken on Linux for years, the Synergy 2.0 release now causes my mouse to continuous…
That's been my experience also. It's kind of surprising given that I was able to replicate 90% of the functionality (that I normally use) for a Raspberry Pi project using only netevent[1] and netcat. Obviously cross-platform and international support (+ handling edge cases) would complicate things, but even in the most basic scenarios, Synergy has been terribly unreliable for me lately. [1] https://github.com/Blub/ne…
Synergy is great. I use it for sharing my mouse and keyboard between my Windows desktop and MacBook Pro. I had some latency issues on WiFi with Synergy 1.x, but that seems to be resolved with 2.x. Licenses are very cheap for their commercial offering and I would highly recommend supporting them!
Mileage may very, etc etc -- I implemented the features I needed!
Hi all, I'm the CEO of Symless, the company behind Synergy. I wanted to chime in and let everyone know that you can ask me anything (reply to this comment). I've been working on Synergy as the lead developer since 2006 (before I started the company). Synergy 2 is an early beta and is still under development (the final version will be quite different to what's you see now). All users have access to Synergy 1 ( https:/…