[too_damn_fast]

In the past two days, the official Syncthing Android client has been discontinued, making the use of KeePass harder. Bitwarden has been trying to move away from a fully FOSS system. And now this?

[prmoustache]

A fork of syncthing had been in development and released for a while though, so use of keepass isn't really getting harder unless this developer also pull the plug. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncth...

[dailykoder]

I've been using keepass for quite a number of years now. I have my database and a security key. I sync my database with dropbox (because I am too lazy to self-host something like nextcloud) between devices and just manually copy my key on everry device. My key was never synced through the internet.

I hope that's secure enough and works fine for me. I guess syncthing is just smaller and obviously doesn't need a third party?

[kreyenborgi]

At least the Play Store version has: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064 But isn't https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid... still being kept up-to-date?

I switched to f-droid at least, remember to Backup your config before uninstalling the Play Store version.

[zinekeller]

It's discontinued, period (https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064#i...). The fork seems to be fine currently though.

[tjoff]

> Bitwarden has been trying to move away from a fully FOSS system

Details?

[josephcsible]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41893994

[tout]

fwiw i've recently moved to sharing my kpdb using taildrive. The KeePass Android app can open databases from WebDAV

[TheBozzCL]

For iOS, Keepassium can use WebDAV as well.

[crossroadsguy]

> Bitwarden has been trying to move away from a fully FOSS system

Again, as Harvey Dent said it…

[sunshine-o]

The reason is the idea of a free operating system and software has been shattered and is now a guest in big corporations and Github.

It still kind of work but it is starting to crack in a few places.

[pjmlp]

Turns out living the FOSS dream is kind of hard.

[prmoustache]

Tbh the same struggle affect proprietary software.

It is more about individual developpers/small teams versus large companies.

[toomuchtodo]

You have financial gain to show when proprietary software ends. When FOSS ends, you just have the experience. That’s fine for some, know what you’re getting into.

[prmoustache]

The license doesn't have anything to do with the financial gain. There are plenty of proprietary freeware and OSS devs who sell their apps on the playstore.

[pjmlp]

Indeed, but it more acute when people don't give anything back, and hobbies don't last forever.

[jasonm23]

Why? The app can still be built / installed / source forked etc.

That is the FOSS dream.

[azurezyq]

it's not FOSS or not. Basically, who owns it or who pays for it. People have interest and people need earnings to live. Business is business.