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cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/14305957

Per the GitHub readme:

This app is discontinued. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version. Interactions (issues, PRs) are limited now, and the entire repo will be archived after the last release. Thus all contributions are preserved for any future (re)use. The forum is still open for discussions and questions. I would kindly ask you to refrain from trying to challenge the decision or asking “why-type” questions - I wont engage with them.

The 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.

Thanks a lot to everyone who ever contributed to this app!

This is extremely disappointing news. I have been using the Syncthing-Fork version, but since it is based on this app, this may be the end for that app as well.

  • NeuronautML@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    This app was incredibly important to me. I don’t really understand what the developer was saying about Google Play either. What does Google want from him?

    I’ll be saving this post for all the suggestions in the comments. Hopefully, a viable alternative presents itself. I’ve been making a lot of tech illiterate friends reliant on this app, and they’re going to be asking me for an alternative.

  • mnmalst@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Oh damn, I use it every day on multiple devices. I need this app. :/

    Lets hope syncthing-Fork, which I use continues.

  • d_k_bo@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    This is extremely sad. I use Syncthing a lot to sync documents between my phone an my computer.

    The main benefit over client/server-based solutions are that it always works.
    No network connection? No problem, the files are all stored locally.
    I broke my home server again? No problem, the devices can talk directly to each other.

  • gravediggersbiscuit@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I wonder if you can still have syncthing on Android just by using Termux, installing from the package manager (looks like syncthing is available) and installing Termux on boot app add on to keep syncthing running no matter what.

    Obviously not as convenient but potentially a workaround

  • DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Moved my stuff over a few months ago, ironically as a de-googling exercise to stop using Gdrive. :/

  • fl42v@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I’m wondering if syncthing in gplay can show some kind of warning that the app is discontinued pointing to use the fork version on f-droid, or, if that’s prohibited by play’s EUFOA (end-user fuckover agreement), discussion on the forums mentioning the existence of said fork… [addit: So, kinda like what termux folks did, but less covertly]

  • csm10495@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    There was talk that the next version of Android will have a full terminal with some sort of Linux emulation. Would be cool if that allowed running the Linux version natively.