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Neil Brown
Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

SyncThing Android users!

I am struggling to work out what has actually happened (as opposed to what is alleged or speculated to have happened), but there appears to be concern about a change in control of the SyncThing Android GitHub repo:

https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/issues/16

#syncthing

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Eric
Eric
@eroc1990@mastodon.parastor.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@neil What a messy handover... for now I've moved to the nel0x version that's on GitHub given their involvement with the publishing of SyncThing to the GP Store, but hopefully both segments of the project can come together and merge their efforts once we know researchxxl is a trustable maintainer.

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Gavin
Gavin
@_calmdowndear@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@neil person with AI-generated avatar, who joined GitHub all of three weeks ago, appears to be trying to step up to lead a popular software project and pull in users of a previous (now defunct?) instance?

I haven't finished reading the comments and I don't have a horse in the race as a non-user of Syncthing anymore, but this is Jia Tan all over again to me.

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Hops the sausage dog
Hops the sausage dog
@howisyourdog@cupoftea.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@neil I found RoundSync easier to understand and set up, but I am not expert and only need to transfer files between my phone and PC.

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bbbhltz
bbbhltz
@bbbhltz@framapiaf.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@neil Thanks for the info. I just jumped ship to the https://github.com/nel0x/syncthing-android release because something smells sketchy

GitHub

GitHub - nel0x/syncthing-android: Syncthing - A Syncthing Wrapper for Android.

Syncthing - A Syncthing Wrapper for Android. Contribute to nel0x/syncthing-android development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Neil Brown
Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

There seems to be a considerable amount of speculation, and some intemperate language in communications around the topic, which I am sure will help get to a speedy and sensible resolution.

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Justine Smithies
Justine Smithies
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Yeah I use Syncthing on Android too and have been following this wondering just like everyone else what is actually going on and is it safe ? Hopefully all will become clear shortly ?

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Adam
Adam
@_aD@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@neil "let's chase off these new maintainers just like we did the previous one"

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STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
@steko@scholar.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@_aD @neil exactly this. The level of entitlement in GitHub issues and in the forum is astonishing (slightly unrelated, I always assumed catfriend1 was "she")

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STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
@steko@scholar.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@_aD @neil Catfriend1 published a message on the forum https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/165?u=steko

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.:fyrfli:.
.:fyrfli:.
@fyrfli@diaspora.im replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@steko @neil @_aD i have to say that that post does not make me feel better as someone coming in on this issue today. i don't know what, if any, version i may have running and am just following the discussions on this today. it has the same odd phrasing as the new repo owner's posts.

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