The service seems abandoned

I think it’s time to say goodbye to this service as there doesn’t seem to be any activity. Only a matter of time until it is removed from Google Play when the minimum API level increases. Added PR for this update!: Remove Stingle, unmaintained since 2023 by dngray · Pull Request #3066 · privacyguid…

Yes Stingle is alive and soon Android client will receive new updates. Also we are developing desktop client.

Thanks for the update! Since nobody has any actual complaints, this sounds good to me :+1: Marking this thread as rejected .

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 …

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 optio…

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? [image] moonwriting: You only need to take a look at the Stingle subreddit , where people are not exactly showing their love for the project. I see mainly people complaining about the lack of updates, like what is happening here, but I …

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.

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 …

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