Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued

• fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What is this alternative of which you speak?

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  • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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    • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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      • Caboose12000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        not quite
        Screenshot of Syncthing-fork’s github readme that says "About Play Store releases: Planning to close my Google Play Developer Account. Please say hi if you are interested in obtaining the latest gplay release files from me to help in publishing this app. "

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I know that part.

      The other fork has existed for a long while.

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