yeah catfriend1 was technically in charge of syncthing-fork before the original syncthing stopped being developed. catfriend1 in other words essentially just continued development on their fork on their own, which kept syncthing alive.

[–] paper_moon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

F-droid still has the most current builds available for the catfriend1 syncthing-fork.. But yeah, this isn't good. Damn. Was hoping if they needed to step back from maintaining a project like this, they'd at least have a call for a volunteer, or let the project languish until someone forked it again and took charge.. To shut it down completely, not great for anyone.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Well, as OP mentioned, and others have speculated in the official syncthing forums, apparently catfriend1 did a repository reset where they wiped everything and started over something like three times last year. So that's still a possibility. I'm going to wait until more information comes out or until catfriend1 doesn't come back after a month or two before I start worrying about the future of the project. Worth finding anyone who had backed up the most recent version of the repository though, just in case.

[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 2 points 14 hours ago

I think helium314 keeps a fairly current version

[–] paper_moon@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Thats.. An odd way to do software development. You can pretty much do whatever with git, its a very powerful tool. Shouldn't need to destroy and create repo's regularly..

Worth noting, if the repo never comes back, syncthing tray seems like they added android support per this message.

And it seems like you can install syncthing from termux and just use the webGUI, per that previously linked forum thread.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think that's generally agreed and no one seems entirely sure why catfriend1 chooses to do it this way.

[–] helix@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe they created a backdoor and every time someone finds out a group of hackers rush to find another sneaky way to include a new one? 😅

[–] paper_moon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeaaah.. As a user, I didn't know they were doing this, its enough to make me question the integrity of the code and maybe switch to something else, like syncthing Tray or just using termux to install it.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 1 points 16 hours ago

For real. I'm probably gunna swap over to something else, this is pretty sus.

[–] vas@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

F-Droid has a copy of the source code I assume.

[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 3 points 21 hours ago

Yep, looks like it. We could continue this development elsewhere. https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingfork/

[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Lmfao what?

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

They also maintained syncthing-lite and that's also gone. 😬