With the official app no longer updated (i don’t trust the forks), i’m looking for alternatives for 2 way sync between my Android phone and my Linux server. I’ve tried nextcloud a long time ago and the experience was very bad. Are there any new tools that i can use?
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crocover at https://sh.itjust.works/post/53548000https://schollz.com/software/croc6
https://github.com/schollz/croc
There is an Android app on F-Droid. https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.howeyc.crocgui/
Did anyone try?
Synching fork has been passed to a new maintainer for a couple months now. The new github is https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android.
If you were using the old catfriend1 version, update your fdroid version and the source will switch over.
This is all out in the open and is resolved, there have been several app updates since then.
There was a lot of suspiciousness around the transfer at first, has that been resolved?
The maintainer for the Play Store version recently started maintaining a non-Play Store version as well.
He archived it.
Oh, damn.
Edit: Seems the new dev and the gplay maintainer have resolved their differences and are working together.
I know this may be contentious but can someone give an update/summary on what’s going on with SyncthingFork on fdroid? And is it correct that SyncthingFork from GooglePlay is ok for now?
I’ve yet to upgrade from version 1 because of all the noise, is it still at an impasse, or has it resolved?
The original maintainer of Syncthing Fork (Catfriend1) passed the code, keys and stuff to another user, not publicly but behind the scenes.
This was not well received by the community and the majority jumped to the Google play version (published by nel0x but based on Catfriend1’s code before the handout).
After some hiccups, nel0x and the new maintainer are joining forces to co-develop and publish the Fork on f-droid and gplay going forward.
Hey thanks, it was that last paragraph i hadn’t kept up with. But i was hoping for something like that.
I’ve been using Fork for years. Möbius on iOS has financial support from a 3rd party that uses Syncthing in their own processes, so I suspect it will stay around.
That said, Resilio Sync is the other most-viable option I know (and use).
It’s a little less kind to battery with larger folder pairs, and uses more memory since it stores the index in RAM. But it’s robust.
The official, maintained syncthing app is available on Android through the Termux ‘pkg’ manager.
What is wrong with the fork from F-Droid? I use it. I see no difference with the original, I’d say it’s even better. If you don’t trust them for some reason, why discard Syncthing as a project? I assume it can be built then. But I have no idea how.
By the way, I’m happy to use Sushi Train on iPhone. Works very well, and is lovingly polished. Now Syncthing is a centrepiece of my workflow to sync my files.
this doesn’t give me confidence.
They just changed the maintainers? What in this thread does not give you confidence?
They changed to a random person and gave all abilities to quietly upgrade everyone’s installs to the one maintained by the new random person. Then the new random person disabled things that allowed us to verify the app provided is the same one built from the Github repo. And now the new random person doesn’t communicate well.
Build a Syncthing Android apk yourself. You don’t need to update to every release. I’m still using 1.30 with 2.x.
Its only a matter of time before they push a backwards incompatible change that causes older clients to stop syncing, Or a security bug is discovered in the older code.
And when they do, you take care of it. Also, if you use Tailscale or equiv, you can stop Syncthing’s exposure to the internet. Then you can stay on a fixed version across clients and limit unexpected breakage that comes with autotomatic updates.
Yep.
I run Tailscale on every device that can run it, and have a TS router in one device at home for devices that can’t run it.
Its my fallback if Syncthing ever has a Discovery server failure.
