Oh my goodness! Syncthing without Android leaves me screwed. My whole digital life revolves around it.
this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2024
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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 :)
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I am not the creator, funnily that is/was one of the Lemmy creators: Nutomic :)
I am a syncthing co-maintainer that kept the android app on life support since a while.
Thank you for all of your hard work!
THANK you for the hard work! Your app is part of my phone photo and appdata backup.
Side question: Will you continue with a fork for f-droid?
As the statement says I wont - it will be fully discontinued. This statement applies to the official app only. It doesn't say anything about other apps or forks - any existing once can and hopefully will continue to exist. Also all the code is free.
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I've installed it from F-droid but still. Fuck google. They really do need breaking up.
I heavily rely on Syncthing. Does anyone know what the outlook is for Syncthing-fork, or what the likelihood is of someone taking on maintenance of this version?
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Hoping it remains viable for a long time without updates. Syncing my KeePass database is really key for me. I need to fluidly add and read passwords from at least 3 devices.
With today's BitWarden drama, I planned to use KeePass with SyncThing for like an hour before seeing this :(((
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I just installed syncthing-fork from f-droid and it worked flawlessly as far as I can tell:
- "Export" in syncthing
- Uninstall syncthing
- Install syncthing-fork from f-droid
- Import in syncthing-fork
I feel the existence of an "export" option in a piece of software is noble in this day and age, and I'm so appreciative of it.
It says "look, I don't WANT you to go to my competitor, but I'm not gonna try to hold your data hostage to prevent it."
It's class, as the Scottish would say.
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Did it transfer over your folder setups so you don't need to set it up manually?
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Just got into using Syncthing for my home network, was thinking I should add it to my phone. Makes sense it dies the instant I consider it
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God this is sad.
The parts of tech that are useful and elegant are contracting, while subscriptions and ads just get more obnoxious.
Does anyone know why it was forked and the fork got all the improvements while the official app is in the exact same state of when it was launched years ago?
It was because all the proposals got rejected?
Because if he rejected all the improvements I don't really understand why he's saying "nobody wants to help development"
It's all in the open, you can go dig around for reasons. As usual there wasn't a single simple one. Neither was it some kind of complete fallout, we e.g. collaborated on translations and I have been in contact around various things with the one that forked.
Fyi the syncthing-fork guy (catfriend1) who's still updating has a donating button on F-droid via Liberapay. It's up to you if your financial situation allows you to donate, but the more of us help the remaining developers for their time, in particular those of us that rely so much on their work, the better off we'll be. Let's give them a little motivation to keep working on this.
FYI2 syncthing-fork (as written and confirmed in this thread) has an import button for your folders from syncthing Android.
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Oh No! This is terrible news. This IMHO is one of the most irreplaceable projects out there. I don't know of another cross-platform local file syncing app that comes anywhere close to this. I hope that it can continue even if it's not through the Play Store.
Google seems to be torpedoing open source developments with a number of decisions lately. Maybe they see F-Droid as a threat now that EU is making them open competition? Maybe they just don't care.
Who gives a shit about play? How much do I have to pay you to update it in fdroid still?
Sad day indeed, bitwarden going shady and this.
Phones are becoming less and less interesting by the day.
Once they get to the point were all of the options that don't require incredibly inconvenient sacrifices in functionality to maintain the interesting stuff like a video game console then that will kill interest in the market for me.
If I can't do anything besides basic smart phone crap I might as well just buy whatever has a good camera once every half decade or so and be done with it. So whatever top end thing Samsung or Apple are putting out.
I'm not sure Google has fully thought through what it means to just be a worse version of what Apple puts out, but with more ads.
Smartphone design is mostly a solved problem. Take today's screens and processors and throw in a few features from the past (removable storage, IR blaster, and headphone jack) and you have a 10-year phone.
I used to get a new phone every year because phone got way better each generation.
My phone is top-tier from 2021 (Z Fold 3), and I have had zero temptation from the newer versions. All they really have is faster processing, but since all apps are designed to run well on budget phones from 5 years ago, there's no reason to upgrade.
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Cool, now I have to find something else to sync my Obsidian vault to my phone. It just worked! Fuck. =____=
As noted elsewhere Syncthing-Fork is still going strong, and a drop-in replacement, it's on F-Droid.
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There is an android native GUI for syncthing in fdroid that looks like its still maintained: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android?tab=readme-ov-file
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Literally set up a home Nas and syncthing last week.
What's a good alternative for Android?
For the F-droid enabled users, it seems there's a Syncthing app in the Termux repos:
~ $ apt show syncthing
Package: syncthing
Version: 1.28.0
Maintainer: @termux
Installed-Size: 26.4 MB
Homepage: https://syncthing.net/
Download-Size: 7857 kB
APT-Sources: https://packages.termux.dev/apt/termux-main stable/main aarch64 Packages
Description: Decentralized file synchronization
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I've been using Syncthing-Fork (on F-Droid) for the extra features it has. I wonder if that developer will be able to continue.
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Any news about the fork of it? https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android-fdroid
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I can only hope the company makes the iOS client (Möbius) decides they need syncthing to continue and decide to get behind it.
As I recall, they use Syncthing as a solution in their business, this would be a big-break for them.
mobiussync.com
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