No one knows what the story is yet?
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2025
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And I was wondering why I was getting an error 404 in Obtainium ๐
The android development always just seemed... off, idk, I just got weird feelings about it and the fork. So I switched my family to use termux and termux:boot to run syncthing instead, it works fine.
Does running termux all of the time affect battery much?
Not as much as the syncthing apps.
Does F-Droid keep a backup of the apps' repo? Anyone has a backup of https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android ?
Maybe I should start having my own github mirror..
~~https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/releases~~
~~This ones a little old, but seems fine in Obtainium?~~
Right, as the next commentor says; it's deprecated, and won't get updates. Interesting that they basically are saying "move to a different service"?
This looks to be an active fork: https://github.com/RoootTheFox/syncmeow
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Update: The Syncthing-Fork source is still available here: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingfork
That doesn't make sense. We don't use google play. We use fdroid.
"2025-08-11"
that is from 3 months ago.
I think that was another repo.
this repo I included had update until today.
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.
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.
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.
I think helium314 keeps a fairly current version
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.
I think that's generally agreed and no one seems entirely sure why catfriend1 chooses to do it this way.
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? ๐
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.
For real. I'm probably gunna swap over to something else, this is pretty sus.
F-Droid has a copy of the source code I assume.
Yep, looks like it. We could continue this development elsewhere. https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingfork/
Lmfao what?
They also maintained syncthing-lite and that's also gone. ๐ฌ
What no don't ๐ฑ
~~To be clear, this was announced months ago. Many folks moved to syncthing-fork on android~~
EDIT: I was wrong! This is def syncthing fork.
This IS syncthing-fork.
Oh that is bad. Could OP rename the title?
ok.
just for you,
<3
But yeah, fuck.