Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued

makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• imsodin@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh don’t worry to much, mine too: If there wasn’t an alternative for syncthing on android, I might have kept it on lifesupport :)

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  • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What is this alternative of which you speak?

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    • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Syncthing-fork. Both show if you search for Syncthing in fdroid.

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      • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ooh.

        Thanks.

        I’ve been running the fork for a long time but somehow figured it was a soft-fork and maybe not really viable without upstream development from syncthing.

        Now @imsodin@infosec.pub 's comments are making a lot more sense.

        This whole thing is more or less a non-issue then?

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Only one I can think of is Resilio, but it’s hard on RAM and battery for large folders.

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      • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s been forever since I looked at resilio so this may be an unfair appraisal but… I seem to remember it’s one of those OSS projects that feels a lot more like free tier commercial software. Do you think that’s the case or nah?

        Honestly just a dumb rsync client would be enough for me.

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      • bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And I don‘t know what‘s going on with them. There weren’t any updates for years, now there is a design overhaul, no new features and suddenly they want me to register. Duck

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  • Atemu@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What’s the history behind this? Why could the changes be done upstream, necessitating a fork?

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sounds like the original maintainer is tired of maintaining it, and the amount of community support wasn’t enough to justify continuing to put in the effort. And then Google’s packaging process pushed it over the edge, hence retiring the project.

      The fork is just another person deciding to take up maintenance of the project.

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      • Atemu@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I know that part.

        The other fork has existed for a long while.

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• sunbunman@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mine too!

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• MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  FolderSync is a good alternative, more battery friendly too!

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