• hersh@literature.cafeEnglish
    5·
    2 hours ago

    I get that they don’t want to deal with Google Play

    Was that the reason? Shame they didn’t just leave it on F-Droid and GitHub then. Nobody needs to use Google Play (at least not yet…)

    • chaospatterns@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002

      According to this post, it was partly that and lack of maintainers. Given there’s maintainers for a fork, I’m curious why they didn’t bring them into the main project.

      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.