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Syncthing Android app discontinued
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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 :)
What is this alternative of which you speak?
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?
not quite
But that is the original Syncthing app @fine_sandy_bottom was talking about the fork that is available in F-Droid
Only one I can think of is Resilio, but it's hard on RAM and battery for large folders.
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.
What's the history behind this? Why could the changes be done upstream, necessitating a fork?
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.
I know that part.
The other fork has existed for a long while.