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PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by ueiqkkwhuwjw@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Overview here

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/39

The new owner of the repo has a fresh github account and apparently has the signing keys from Catfriend1 too.

Time will tell if they are trustworthy, but for the extra paranoid it might make sense to pause updates for a while.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 73 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

has me reconsidering my use of syncthing

This is about a third party piece of software that isnt directly related to syncthing. The devs of syncthing have however been recommending syncthing-fork as their choice for android, so it definitely needs clearing up.

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We're sort of in this situation because the official project decided not to continue providing an official Android app, yet people want to use it on Android forcing unofficial versions to be created and maintained.

I get that they don't want to deal with Google Play anymore, but somebody has to deal with it and them not owning the app is putting users at risk.

[–] hersh@literature.cafe 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I get that they don’t want to deal with Google Play

Was that the reason? Shame they didn't just leave it on F-Droid and GitHub then. Nobody needs to use Google Play (at least not yet...)

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002

According to this post, it was partly that and lack of maintainers. Given there's maintainers for a fork, I'm curious why they didn't bring them into the main project.

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.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Yes, I only use it via syncthing-fork so this is a distinction without a difference to me.