Where does this whole controversy stand right now? Any of you went back to using it? If not, what are the alternatives? I’m pretty dependent on it but in no way informed enough to analyse this on my own
There never was a controversy about SyncThing, only a bit of drama about the ownership of an unofficial Android client. I’m still using it, but it’s pinned to an older version for now.
Is there a way to manually download an older version if I missed with the auto update? And good to to know it’s only the android repo, I thought it was the whole project for some reason
Assuming you’re talking about Catfriend1 giving up on syncthing-fork?
Install version 2.0.11.2. This was the last version of it under control of CatFriend1. Just scroll down a bit on the F-Droid page and tap on the version you want to install. And then toggle “ignore new versions”. There’s a competing Android client made by nel0x who’s been maintaining the Google Play version. I’m waiting for them to release more updates. They seen to have a good rep in the Syncthing community.
Looks like I can only see the three latest versions (as far back as 2.0.12). Is it user error or do I need to do something special to look further back?
It could because I’m using Droid-ify or that I have 2.0.11 installed to the site is showing me that version.
I’m considering updating the app since nel0x (maintainer of the google play version) and researchxxl (who catfriend gave the app to) are joining forces.
good to hear/read.
Yeah same
Well you can download 2.0.11 from their github at least. However, I also don’t see the version in droidify.
https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/releases/tag/v2.0.11.2
It appears there is now an alternative that is maintained by somebody that akaik is a known and trusted individual in the SyncThing dev community: https://github.com/nel0x/syncthing-android
I use Obtainium to keep it updated.
Edit: and apparently it’s archived now, so no longer maintained :(
I’m just waiting for the fdroid release to switch to that repository app.
Edit: Oh wait, it appears they’ve joined forces in the original repo. No need to change.
Have been there lately, the repo has been archived and is read-only. This doesn’t look good. Time for me to visit the Syncthing forum to see what’s going on.
Edit: Looks like nel0x repo has been archived for 19 days https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/216
Looks like nel0x and researchxxl will combine forces and maintain syncthing-fork together. Good stuff
The tldr is the official win and nix versions are ok.
The problem is the unofficial android fork.
The original maintainer decided to hand the keys over to someone else, who thought it was a good idea to create a GitHub account with a name stupidly close to the original maintainer. As there is no history with this new maintainer, people are worried about another zx incident where malware is slowly introduced.I use it between PCs (binary, flatpak) and NAS (Docker), but i believe the android fork is still potentially compromised. Haven’t updated the android version since the repo was taken over.
I basically only need it for my phone and laptop…
What controversy?
A popular but unofficial Android app by “catfriend” was weirdly taken over by someone with no credentials. So everyone lost trust in it and the new maintainer was very sketchy in their responses to concerns.
There’s no controversy with the official project.
I’m building FOSS alternatives from the ground up on top of IPFS. Not quite ready to use, but very promising (on desktop). Building the abstraction needed to do multi-device edits of the same IPNS key was the hardest part, but that work is done and usable for building any app. Might be another year before everything is stable enough to daily drive the storage implementation due to limited bandwidth to work on it, so I won’t share here – find me in the https://windowsappcommunity.com/discord if you’d like to see the work or contribute. If something happens to syncthing or people want a p2p alternative to the personal cloud, I’ll be there!
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I did use it a couple of years ago extensively, but moved back to the basics later on: Termux and Rsync.
