Hi @tonytamsf
Thanks for bringing this up. I agree things should improve - especially for those new users that don’t know what Open Source is and that gPodder most likely is underfunded. I can’t find it back, but I mentioned somewhere (on the forum or GitHub) that we could introduce a notification when users open the gPodder settings, that it is an open source project that could use some money. I think we can already do that now.
But having an integrated sync service I think is a very valuable thing to offer, one I wouldn’t easily rip out. It would be great if we (as a project) could get together with the new gPodder maintainer to see if we can tackle the main issues (unfortunately I don’t have time to map them). If our efforts don’t bear any fruit we maybe should move gPodder sync maybe to an ‘experimental’ section.