Are anyone up-to-date on the status of the syncthing-fork on Android, following the drama of catfriend1’s sudden disappearance and the less-than-trust-building behavior of researchxxl? Did they rebuild that trust? Was it forked again by someone more trustworthy?

  • Dymonika@beehaw.org
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    3 months ago

    Syncthing-Fork is apparently fine.

    I had freaked out over it briefly but someone had linked to proof that the handover was legit: https://old.reddit.com/comments/1tfldu7 (Yes, I know linking here is that-which-shall-not-be-done-on-Lemmy but the discussions were interesting and are worth reading.)

    With that said, I actually like BasicSync’s design more than -Fork anyway so I’m sticking to BasicSync for now. I think either is fine.

    • greencoil@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Have you noticed any change in battery performance on BasicSync? I’ve been thinking about switching over; aside from the poor dev transition/communication, the new version by ResearchXXL started chewing through my battery life. Used an older version of the app and confirmed that it used less energy, but was too concerned about possible security exploits in what is a very popular p2p application with extensive file permissions…