So what's up with Syncthing right now? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 weeks ago by jasonthedragon442@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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

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[-] Lemmchen@feddit.org 79 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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.

[-] jasonthedragon442@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] Sephie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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Edit: and apparently it's archived now, so no longer maintained :(

[-] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Have been there lately, the repo has been archived and is read-only.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Edit: Looks like nel0x repo has been archived for 19 days https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/216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