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.

Sad to see it go. There is a fork but seems not so great considering they are looking for active maintainer. Still better than nothing. Need to check it out as it has some enhancements.

Planning to close my Google Play Developer Account. Please say hi if you are interested in obtaining the latest gplay release files from me to help in publishing this app

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[–] dwzero@lemmy.ml 3 points 48 minutes ago

Syncing with my phone was my main use for syncthing. :(

[–] grapemix@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Syncthing is such a wonderful project. RIP. But for us already being spoiled by syncthing, it might be a good time to self host services to handle, sync and serve our own data like photos, contacts and more.

[–] o1o12o21@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 hour ago

This is just about the android app version. The desktop version still works and continues to live.

[–] sol6_vi@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Damn this is some rough news... as other commenters have said though can't blame the guy. I'll cross my fingers for some random "Sinkboi for Syncthing" or something dumb like that to pop up down the road.

[–] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 40 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

I've been using the fdroid syncthing-fork version for a long time now and haven't had any issues at all... Doesn't mean it'll last forever but it's been getting the job done for me even in its current state.

... And can't remember my original reason to use the fork instead lol

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 points 5 minutes ago

OK, I switched to that one now, thanks for pointing it out and explaining it.

[–] o1o12o21@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I was not even aware of this fork let alone a long timeline of existence. I am adding this onto my weekend project list. Thanks for the recommendation.

[–] halm@leminal.space 2 points 42 minutes ago

I switched to the fork as soon as I read this news. It shouldn't take more than a few minutes:

Just install it in parallel with the mainline app,
export your existing configuration to the default storage location,
import it in syncthing-fork (it'll detect the export file automatically),
and you're done. Uninstall the official app so they don't compete for the daemon and port.

[–] mortalic@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Battery management

[–] christophski@feddit.uk 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Yes, the core version was unusable because of the battery drain

[–] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 1 points 1 hour ago

Where's the tailscale fork? Thats my current battery sink

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

THAT'S WHATS DRAINING MY BATTERY! I've been trying to figure it out, I knew it was draining quicker because of that but never really our two and two together

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 14 minutes ago

Android shows which apps consume the most energy since the last charge.

It's great, I've used it a lot.

Specially with relatives. It also lists 'Display', and shows how much your screen use was draining that new phone. I had to explain this to a friend recently, with their new phone. They thought it might be defective. It wasn't.

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Let's hope that it doesn't rely on the official release

[–] aard@kyu.de 9 points 4 hours ago

I've let my google developer account expire quite a while ago after they kept asking for more and more stupid stuff. Nowadays if you don't get paid a lot for it you must be either a masochist or a bit stupid if you upload to google play.

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net -3 points 4 hours ago

If it's not open it will die via failure in capitalism, going broke, or "success" in capitalism like DarkSkies or HopStop, which Apple bought just to stop them existing (these are both least case scenarios in a consumer capitalism that serves neither consumers nor 90% of capitalists)