Eh, Syncthing-Fork is basically feature complete, it's not even a significant exploit threat (on gOS and constrained to local network and storage spaces in my case, but probably in general). I just pinned it at v2.0.11.2 in F-Droid and will wait for things to shake out. If things go badly there'll be a Syncthing-Fork-Fork, it's too critical to too many peoples workflows.
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To your point, the developer of an iOS Syncthing client (Möbius) has financially support ST development for at least 3 years that I know of. I don't know how much, but they use it for their own clients, so it's important to them.
My only concern would be the Discovery servers.
I'm out of the loop; what happened with syncthing-fork?
The maintainer Catfriend1 set the whole repo to private and apparently transfered the repo/code ownership, and signing keys to someone else without telling anyone? There's some more to it, but the maintainer didn't choose to share any info with the public, and it makes it seem highly suspicious what their intention and motivations are/were with the codebase.
The main repo changed hands a few times to new accounts that were very new.
Would it be possible to run Syncthing in Termux?
It is.
How viable would that be? Can it also just run in the background like the actual app?
I have no intent to upgrade from my current version (1.27.9) as it's been fine for years now.
It works, does what I need. There was an update a few months ago, but it offers nothing I need, and would only cause me a ton of work and re-testing to ensure it works as it currently does.
Apps don't need continuous updating if they work.
Thing is, even using this new app it's still ST underneath, using their Discovery servers. That's as big an issue as anything.
Syncthing itself is fine. Syncthing-Fork, a completely separate project that wraps Syncthing into a neat app for Android, is what's going through the repo drama.
Besides - it looks like the new repo owner is pretty transparent about the whole thing and appears to be making good-faith efforts to keep the original Syncthing-Fork devs involved.
Thanks for the update
I've used Fork for so long I forget it's a separate app
Whats the issue with using their discovery servers? Has something changed regarding this?