• paper_moon@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    F-droid still has the most current builds available for the catfriend1 syncthing-fork… But yeah, this isn’t good. Damn. Was hoping if they needed to step back from maintaining a project like this, they’d at least have a call for a volunteer, or let the project languish until someone forked it again and took charge… To shut it down completely, not great for anyone.

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      19 days ago

      Well, as OP mentioned, and others have speculated in the official syncthing forums, apparently catfriend1 did a repository reset where they wiped everything and started over something like three times last year. So that’s still a possibility. I’m going to wait until more information comes out or until catfriend1 doesn’t come back after a month or two before I start worrying about the future of the project. Worth finding anyone who had backed up the most recent version of the repository though, just in case.

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        19 days ago

        Thats… An odd way to do software development. You can pretty much do whatever with git, its a very powerful tool. Shouldn’t need to destroy and create repo’s regularly…

        Worth noting, if the repo never comes back, syncthing tray seems like they added android support per this message.

        And it seems like you can install syncthing from termux and just use the webGUI, per that previously linked forum thread.