Which Syncthing Fork should one use after the project's handover?

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Hello everyone, I recently learned that the Syncthing fork has been handed over to a new dev in a way that raised many questions like if the new dev is trustable with this project. It’s been discussed here Syncthing Forum and here GitHub. I’m not an extremely techie person, and from what I understand, there are two different forks and confusion about the subject. The first fork being researchxxl’s version which was inherited from catfriend1 which is also the version on the F-Droid. And there is nel0x’s version who was already a contributor to the project if I didn’t get the whole situation wrong.

I’d like to know which version people here at PG are currently using, and do you still trust the F-Droid version? Syncthing itself deals with sensitive data, and I believe this is a critical matter.

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The two developers have eventually joined hands, so there is only one actively developed version of Syncthing-Fork right now, with releases available both on F-Droid and Google Play. I’m not sure if the Google Play release has currently any limitations in comparison to the F-Droid one.

If you want to avoid the controversies though, there is also Syncthing Tray with its experimental Android builds, and lastly you can run Syncthing from the command line inside Termux.

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Glad to see that the community might maybe finally reach a consensus and focus their energy into 1 single approach.

Both of those options sound very crazy on paper to me but this is the way to go I guess.
Eh, if it works well and without sucking too much battery then why not. :+1:t2:

Thanks for the TLDR.

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2.0.13 is in Fdroid’s app store as of maybe 2 weeks ago.

2.0.11.1 is in the Google Play store.

I’m not certain on the 2.0.13 lineage and I’m hoping it appears in Google Play. 2.0.12 might have been dodgy or concerning when it came out due to the handover and who was actually in control.

I’m using 2.0.11.2 from Fdroid still, which seems to sync everything, but reports at 99% and never gets to 100%.

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I’ve been using the one from F-Droid. I did stay with the last version under catfriend1’s control (I forget the number). Once researchxxl and nel0x joined forces, I decided to start allowing the app to update. Seems to be working as well now as it did under catfriend1.

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Why don’t use you guys use Obtainium with direct Github releases? @donutfreak @Scott

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Not all apps I have installed are available from Github so I end up using F-Droid for half the apps anyway.

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You’re using a lot of proprietary apps? I don’t see why F-droid would have them but not on some public repo.

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I use 4 proprietary apps. 3 of them stay disabled until they are needed. The rest are foss.

I don’t know what to tell you. Not all of the ones I use are available elsewhere.

I’ve been using F-Droid for over 10 years without a problem so I’ll continue doing so.

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Alright, I guess I just hoped straight from Play Store to full FOSS from Github (or occasional .apk file).

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As I was seeing the situation few weeks back, there were some questions on contributions and ownership for the Android Syncthing-Fork effort. I wasn’t quite sure of the lineage of some of the 2.0.11 and later releases after catfriend did the Houdini thing.

Recent activity looks hopeful and I was hoping for near sync’d releases between FDroid and Play Store again.