No love for SyncUp? https://github.com/siddarthkay/syncup
It does look very different but works mostly without issues. It's a pretty new project.
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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.
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...
Thanks for the link - I'll dig into that tomorrow!
I am also going to check more into BasicSync.
If you are still unsure you can download Termux and use the official Syncthing package.
I know I'm not directly answering your question but I switched from Catfriend's last build to BasicSync. Sure, it doesn't have the same bells and whistles as Syncthing Fork but importing worked fine and it's been rock solid since. If you've ever used the Syncthing web UI on desktop you'll be fine. Plus the developer is well known in the Android development circle.
Why is BasicSync reaching some cloud domains? I used it but noticed they're constantly reaching some remote endpoint. So I ended up staying on Syncthing-Fork
Maybe it's the endpoint Syncthing uses for NAT traversal or fetching the relay list. Other than that I'm not sure but you could ask the developer, they respond to questions quickly.
Thanks for the recommendation. I see that the developer of BasicSync has also createed pull requests in researchxxl's repository which I guess would not happen if there was a general distrust among those who are close to the development.
I recently switched to BasicSync as well. I had Syncthing-Fork from the F-Droid. Then I switched to the Play Store version. For whatever reason, it wouldn't keep connection to my server. BasicSync is always able to reconnect and I was easily able to reuse my previous Syncthing-Fork config.
FWIW, syncthing-fork in F-droid has link to researchxxl's github. The package name still catfriend1 though. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingfork/ Trustworthiness is still a question mark though, hence I've not installed in my phone.
I seem to remember that F-Droid halted the updates while the confusion was at a maximum - that it is "back to normal" is perhaps somewhat of a sign that things have sorted themselves? Catfriend1 is also making contributions to the repository, but I guess there's no guarantee that it's really the same person?
I was wondering this myself
In case someone needs an alternative, the SambaLite app by edgels from F-Droid is pretty easy to use (requiring a Samba setup on your PC, of course).