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After the whole Syncthing-Fork debacle, I've been considering what to do, and I discovered that Syncthing Tray has experimental Android builds. I've noticed the UI is kind of buggy (not really a surprise since they're experimental builds), so I was wondering if anyone has actually used it and could provide a comparison with Syncthing-Fork. I'm especially interested regarding battery life and so on given that that was the main benefit of Syncthing-Fork over the original app anyway before the original app got discontinued, and obviously I'd like to know if it syncs well or if there are any weird issues.

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[–] MalReynolds@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eh, Syncthing-Fork is basically feature complete, it's not even a significant exploit threat (on gOS and constrained to local network and storage spaces in my case, but probably in general). I just pinned it at v2.0.11.2 in F-Droid and will wait for things to shake out. If things go badly there'll be a Syncthing-Fork-Fork, it's too critical to too many peoples workflows.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 day ago

To your point, the developer of an iOS Syncthing client (Möbius) has financially support ST development for at least 3 years that I know of. I don't know how much, but they use it for their own clients, so it's important to them.

My only concern would be the Discovery servers.