Are anyone up-to-date on the status of the syncthing-fork on Android, following the drama of catfriend1’s sudden disappearance and the less-than-trust-building behavior of researchxxl? Did they rebuild that trust? Was it forked again by someone more trustworthy?

  • Dymonika@beehaw.org
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    2 months ago

    Syncthing-Fork is apparently fine.

    I had freaked out over it briefly but someone had linked to proof that the handover was legit: https://old.reddit.com/comments/1tfldu7 (Yes, I know linking here is that-which-shall-not-be-done-on-Lemmy but the discussions were interesting and are worth reading.)

    With that said, I actually like BasicSync’s design more than -Fork anyway so I’m sticking to BasicSync for now. I think either is fine.

    • cyberwolfie@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      Thanks for the link - I’ll dig into that tomorrow!

      I am also going to check more into BasicSync.

  • prism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    12·
    2 months ago

    I know I’m not directly answering your question but I switched from Catfriend’s last build to BasicSync. Sure, it doesn’t have the same bells and whistles as Syncthing Fork but importing worked fine and it’s been rock solid since. If you’ve ever used the Syncthing web UI on desktop you’ll be fine. Plus the developer is well known in the Android development circle.

    • cyberwolfie@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      2 months ago

      Thanks for the recommendation. I see that the developer of BasicSync has also createed pull requests in researchxxl’s repository which I guess would not happen if there was a general distrust among those who are close to the development.

      • prism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        2 months ago

        Maybe it’s the endpoint Syncthing uses for NAT traversal or fetching the relay list. Other than that I’m not sure but you could ask the developer, they respond to questions quickly.

    • n4sdaq@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I recently switched to BasicSync as well. I had Syncthing-Fork from the F-Droid. Then I switched to the Play Store version. For whatever reason, it wouldn’t keep connection to my server. BasicSync is always able to reconnect and I was easily able to reuse my previous Syncthing-Fork config.

    • cyberwolfie@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      2 months ago

      I seem to remember that F-Droid halted the updates while the confusion was at a maximum - that it is “back to normal” is perhaps somewhat of a sign that things have sorted themselves? Catfriend1 is also making contributions to the repository, but I guess there’s no guarantee that it’s really the same person?