Reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between hard and impossible and no active maintenance. The app saw no significant development for a long time and without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance an app requires even without doing much, if any, changes.
Sad to see it go. There is a fork but seems not so great considering they are looking for active maintainer. Still better than nothing. Need to check it out as it has some enhancements.
Planning to close my Google Play Developer Account. Please say hi if you are interested in obtaining the latest gplay release files from me to help in publishing this app
the fork version works fine. if that dies, i’m hopeful some new fork will emerge. syncthing is well known and used by many, so i think as long as the original software is alive, there’ll be a way to use it on your phone. heck, there’s ways to run syncthing on a pocketbook e-reader, lol
Anyone have any good readings or discussions on what Google Play policies are being cited here as the major obstacle? Just curious to learn more.
Edit: 20 testers policy? Sounds onerous.
Just as I start using it bruh
I installed from fdroid, I expect it to be still available as far as it will work…
And I guess somebody will build and keep publishing it just not on google play, which is anyway a cesspool nowadays, so no big deal.
Apparently publishing malware and the likes is quite easy, but publishing well-established foss software isn’t.
Syncing with my phone was my main use for syncthing. :(
Syncing with my phone
wasismy main use for syncthing.:(:)
We shall persevere! It doesn’t seem like it’s really needed any updates anyway…
Aww, too bad
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I switched to the fork as soon as I read this news. It shouldn’t take more than a few minutes:
Just install it in parallel with the mainline app,
export your existing configuration to the default storage location, import it in syncthing-fork (it’ll detect the export file automatically),
and you’re done. Uninstall the official app so they don’t compete for the daemon and port.
On f-droid the fork seems to be behind the original, but I expect I will if it continues updating.
