The service seems abandoned
It does seem none of the repositories have been even touched in 2024. I wonder what happened to @alexamiryan seems not any activity on their github profile.
It has not been touched once in 2024 and only twice in 2023. Many issues have piled up with no response.
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It doesn’t look like there are any new issues since 2023 besides one feature request. The others have responses anyways. It’s common for issues to pile up in an issue tracker when they are low priority.
I haven’t heard of any complaints with Stingle yet. I would rather remove things based on actual problems, rather than arbitrary cutoff dates for recent development.
I understand that, but I’m also not too keen on listing projects that no longer seem to be recieving updates. After all, it is in our general criteria that tools should be in active development:
The tools that we recommend should be actively developed, unmaintained projects will be removed in most cases.
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Stingle investor here. The project is very much alive and we are getting new users every day. Critical issues are being addressed and we are looking for contributors.
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That’s interesting because I remember Picocrypt had a message from the developer in its repo saying he didn’t have time to maintain it anymore but it was OK because it was pretty stable at that point.
I went to check and found this:
We’ve Moved!
In an effort to make Picocrypt more open to future developments and maintenance from the community, this repository will be moving to github.com/Picocrypt. While future developments will likely take place there, this repository will still exist as a trusted and reliable “backup” for people who need the highest level of security and stability. For people who are more open to experimental (and potentially less stable) software, I encourage you to move over to the new Picocrypt organization’s repositories. For more details, see here. Thank you all for your support along the way!
Which is excellent news.
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Then atleast release bug fixes or minor updates periodically instead of going months without anything. Since this is marketed as a privacy friendly cloud storage, regular updates will instill confidence in its users.
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Hi @rahar - if you’re able to verify your affiliation with Stingle please send me a DM so I can tag your account here.
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Yes Stingle is alive and soon Android client will receive new updates. Also we are developing desktop client.
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Thanks for the update! Since nobody has any actual complaints, this sounds good to me 
Marking this thread as rejected.
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There haven’t been any updates yet till now…
I think we should take another look at removing Stingle as there hasn’t been any updates even when the developer promised to ship updates soon. As of now, the iOS version hasn’t received any updates in two years. Like @freddy already mentioned earlier, Stingle doesn’t even meet the general criteria anymore because of this situation.
You only need to take a look at the Stingle subreddit, where people are not exactly showing their love for the project.
Since we are already recommending Ente, that has been doing amazing job with their product, I would argue that it is even a bit insulting for Ente to be listed on the same page with a company that doesn’t seem to care anymore and has more or less abandoned their product.
I agree. It seems very bizarre to me that the developers promised an update was coming soon and keep insisting that the project is alive. We’ve taken their word for it once, but without concrete action, I don’t see how we can keep recommending Stingle. I can, of course, see the value in having options (i.e. not just recommending Ente), but in this case, Stingle is no longer a suitable alternative
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this indeed needs re-evalauation. Is anyone out here using Stringle at all even? I dont know anyone using it. Generally with services like this it best not be a one man show Contributors to stingle/stingle-photos-android · GitHub
Since @alexamiryan is here maybe he can share more info?
I see mainly people complaining about the lack of updates, like what is happening here, but I do not really see many complaints about the product itself. In fact mainly the opposite, like this comment:
[…] it’s a shame because Stingle is great and nothing compares even now.
@dngray originally reviewed this app when we added photo recommendations, so I will leave this one for him to handle I think 
There was some pause in development, but now it will resume. Nevertheless Stingle is a live product with paid customers who use it everyday. Current versions doesn’t have any major problems and further development will be focused on new features.
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What about the android app update that was coming soon™ 6 months ago, is it almost ready? What about the desktop application which has been ~ 4 years in the works and was 2 months away from shipping 3 years ago? Not gonna lie, these sound like empty promises to me, but I will gladly be proven wrong.
Hey thanks for adding in! And welcome back to the forum.
I really appreciate that you build such nice app. However I also personally when making tool selections look at long-livety expectations of a product. Now when we initially started with the photo recommendations all was still newish and Ente as competitor was not as well established as it now seems to be. Now one can never be getting garantees on future but it worries me that you seem to be essentially the only contributor.
Besides that, I do wonder if no single security (even if rated low) finding has been reported throughout all this time of no updates? Either you write truely amazingly robust software, or nobody inspected it, or nobody reported it, or it didn’t get patched. Neither of those answers after the first I would say would be great. I cant think of a software ever being “finished”.
Now I really do not want to undermine your efforts. It is amazing that you built this in the first place. But hope you could add your thoughts on these concerns. Anyhow I do understand this project isn’t having your focus, but thst just makes it hard for me to recommend.
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