If I had a last wish … ![]()
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- Don’t fight
- Don’t lie
- Get together in one place
- Publish one App
Establish trust by contributing, for example, code, translations, build recipes, support for users.
Therefore, I did hand over all my stuff to my inheritant @researchxxl inluding the com.github.catfriend1* apps, digital signing material and wish them the best to fulfill the mission of carrying on the Syncthing-Fork app.
We have met in online gaming and developing modding code together for a level that tells the story of a research station attacked by some alien-like monsters. Two players do have to cooperate on fixing electrical devices, a low power emitting nuclear reactor and avoiding a bath in acid. If you stumble upon the game, say hello to us during our test sessions. ![]()
@researchxxl Thank you for your will to take a try on coding. Without your work, the app would die until revival for a while.
To the community:
I am sorry to see how things developed during my absence.
“What a mess they have created” (Source: 4PDA)
I did not expect this but never the learning curve is complete in my life. ![]()
THANK YOU for all those great 7 years we were together.
THANK YOU for - currently - 82k for following a genuine, transparent and reproducible release of the app with all its cat purring friendliness.
I’ll authorize every attempt to clean up this mess.
I’ll review the progress from time to time and if I find anything malicious going on, I’ll let you know here.
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Edit 1:
Regarding @nel0x , they did not have any history with the Syncthing (Android) project nor an expressive public profile when they applied to take over the Google Play Store entry in Feb 2025. I accepted this and transferred - believing in good will and we agreed on their task to be publishing what was on my repository to Google Play after their review. If they now desire to make their own app, there is, unfortunately no way to clean up the confusion caused if it is called the same other than kindly asking them to rename it. Please note: Google Play automatically renamed all of my answer posts to user feedback that existed before the handover to the author nel0x… this does not reflect reality.
Edit 2: I followed the events and releases on the researchxxl repo, and I am glad to see there is good work on the way. dbhavsar76 joined as a contributor and seems to work on the material3 design update to replace the old-fashioned looking UX design. nel0x announced to work on a proper root implementation when he finds time, that’s also great. researchxxl is reviewing the PR of both (and more) contributors.
Until now, the code changes look trustworthy from my side and greatly improve the user friendlyness, even on TV where I did not care about for years to fully test the app UX
. Download counts seem a little low to me, but was good. Because two technically broken releases were up for three days and then revoked: @researchxxl reported to me it just affected about 3000 out of 78000 “users” (users are GitHub downloads in reality due to lack of tracking
).
So, please go on. You’re all doing a very good job! And myself, I am also taking part in the current RC. ![]()