I’ve recently started using Syncthing to keep my laptops in sync, and I am impressed. As a thank you, I’ve just made a donation to support the project.
I also took the liberty of listing Syncthing on dAppCDN to provide an additional discovery point and a reliable alternative mirror for the community:
We already act as both a primary and alternative mirror for several other open-source projects. If @calmh or any other core team member would like to take direct control over the release process on dAppCDN (it can be fully automated), I would be more than happy to provide the necessary credentials.
Otherwise, we will personally ensure that the listings are kept up to date with every official release.
Thank you for this amazing tool!
I don’t think we need an extra third party distributing binaries.
Aplogies if I’m unfairly representing you. I get emails like these approximately every week, where Syncthing has been added to some “software catalog” and we’re invited to “link back” etc…
I completely understand the skepticism. Looking at the screenshot you posted, I realize how terrible that looks from your perspective. It was a generic “support the infrastructure” template that was unfortunately active by default without proper context.
I want to clarify our model: dAppCDN was built to support free software, not profit from it. We do not keep any funds; our policy is to forward 100% of any donations collected back to the respective projects.
As shown in the screenshot attached, we have disabled the donation box on the Syncthing page to prevent any further confusion.
My intent was to provide a fast, privacy-focused alternative for discovery — not to capitalize on your hard work. My own donation to Syncthing earlier today was a genuine “thank you” as a user, not a marketing fee.
If you are still uncomfortable with the listing, let me know and I will remove it immediately. I respect your work too much to be seen as just another “software catalog” vulture.
Please accept my apologies again for the oversight!
