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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[–] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 54 points 1 month ago (2 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

[–] o1o12o21@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago (2 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 10 points 1 month 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.

[–] weLookAbove@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sadly it's unusable on Android 15. All of the interactable functions are crammed up into the status bar and cannot be touched.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Wdym cannot be touched?

[–] MartianFox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah I Have the same problem and wondered why no one switching to the fork mentions that :D But I guess android 15 is not very widespread jet.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 4 points 1 month ago

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