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Per the GitHub readme:
This app is discontinued. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version. Interactions (issues, PRs) are limited now, and the entire repo will be archived after the last release. Thus all contributions are preserved for any future (re)use. The forum is still open for discussions and questions. I would kindly ask you to refrain from trying to challenge the decision or asking “why-type” questions - I wont engage with them.
The reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between hard and impossible and no active maintenance. The app saw no significant development for a long time and without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance an app requires even without doing much, if any, changes.
Thanks a lot to everyone who ever contributed to this app!
This is extremely disappointing news. I have been using the Syncthing-Fork version, but since it is based on this app, this may be the end for that app as well.
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Damn, this is actually critical for me. I use it to sync photos, files, and password vaults between my devices.
Kind of wondering if it’s worth getting into Android development now…
Do it and pick it up!!
Have this on all my devices to sync wallpapers. Such a shame when developers burn out
What’s your workflow for syncthing & applying wallpapers? Do you use tasker alongside synthing to sync and auto apply a new but same wallpaper on all your devices?
SyncThing syncs a massive folder and Muzei randomises them and switches them every half hour. If they’re ever the same on two devices, I start stressing because something has gone horribly wrong.
Lamenugs
oof :(
My phone just died irreparably and sync thing saved so much of my data. Really hope it continues in some form
Glad the dev is managing their capacity, hopefully others will maintain it. Unfortunately phone sync is tightly controlled, limited to paid storage services, as offered by the phone makers.
Bummer, it’s one of my favorite apps =(
I use it for my Obsidian/Logseq markdown notes :0
I truly hope the developer can have a nice break from this.
I was literally going to set that up this week… Damn it.
Currently using Nextcloud to sync it but it’s shit.
Been a while since I used it, but what it does it does well. I wonder what the complexity is for a relatively mature app to have someone else pick up maintinance
Well I suppose it is understandable. Sad to see especially when F-droid exists.
Just at the time i started to use it in my android it got discontinued 😕
Same here. Tried it out and it’s been great for a few months. I was just about to get some family members set up using it.
That’s a huge shame. I was using it quite extensively to sync wallpapers and immediately-necessary files to my phone.
It’s not even like it looks any better for iOS either. Between the filesystem permission issues, and the background activity being severely crippled as standard, no wonder there’s no development there either
well there is mobius sync, but yeah
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Hopefully Syncthing-Fork will still be maintained somewhat, and remains available through F-Droid…
Google holds way too much power and takes too many arbitrary decisions… including the absurdity of asking for a absurdly expensive and time-consuming security audit for Google Drive access, which as far as I’m aware is not a thing for other cloud storage services like Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.
It’s why I can’t wait for a truly open mobile OS that I’d feel comfortable running as a daily driver for work critical applications.
Graphene with sandbox?
That’s what I’m running, but I’d rather devs move away from play store. When looking for apps, f-droid and compatible repos are sorely lacking. I’ll still look there first though.
Syncthing is pretty big. Weird that it’s being dropped.
A GitHub issue was opened for Syncthing-Fork, so it will be worth watching that to know whether it will continue to be supported.
