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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 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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Edit: and apparently it's archived now, so no longer maintained :(

[-] Staff@piefed.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

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