Overview here

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/39

The new owner of the repo has a fresh github account and apparently has the signing keys from Catfriend1 too.

Time will tell if they are trustworthy, but for the extra paranoid it might make sense to pause updates for a while.

The new repo has two releases in it now. GitHub is silently redirecting to the new repo, even in Obtainium, meaning it's possible that if you had this previously installed via Obtainium and updated now, you may have apks installed that may or may not contain the changes in the repo.

This is a mess. I deleted the repo from Obtainium (luckily I don't auto install updates) and will wait to see what happens over the next few months. Might just save my notes in a network share instead of using syncthing from my phone. Idk, notes are all that I was using it for.

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[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I was just reading through the syncthing forum about this. https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661 Nearly everyone in that thread is suspicious about this. No notification from Catfriend. New dev has no history.

For now, I going back to what I did before Syncthing - a USB-C thumb drive and copy files manually.

Syncthing and Syncthing-Fork have been removed from my devices.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, thats helpful additional context

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Glad to be of service

[–] Pssk@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You could also use syncthing through termux

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I decided on LocalSend instead. Doesn't auto transfer but is very easy to use and fast. Side of Burritos has a video about it.

[–] oeuf@slrpnk.net 17 points 3 months ago

Fine. Let me know know when syncthing-fork-fork is published.

[–] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I had syncthing-fork installed via F-Droid.

Going to the source page from F-Droid auto redirects to the new app, however it treats it like i don't have the app installed at all despite being installed on my device.

I hit ignore all updates just in case

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

Huh, exact same thing happened to me, how weird

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

Same for me...wierd.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Check what version of Syncthing-fork you're running. IIRC there was a major breaking change between 1.x and 2.x, so they published a new app to make sure people only upgraded deliberately.

AFAICT F-droid hasn't built the new app (yet?). The redirect is on GitHub's end. You can also install older versions through F-Droid if you prefer (but not 1.x, I don't believe those are published anymore)

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Thanks for the PSA, genuinely. Have paused updates for now for caution. Hopefully it's nothing.

(If installed via play, open app in play store, hit three dots and untick "Enable auto updates")