F-Droid needs to step in and take action like they did with simple mobile tools. If there is a change in ownership, the app should not be updated anymore.

The complete lack of caution is concerning. If this had been malicious, the damage would've already been done

Thanks for the heads-up!

For now it looks like the original developer of the fork [0] decided to retire their efforts including their whole GitHub account.

User nel0x [1] is communicating with the new repo owner.

https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/issues/16

>> Hi @researchxxl, I initially thought this might be Catfriend1’s new account, but apparently that’s not the case.

>> That's one of the biggest challenges I think for getting started. It's not about if we are allowed to, but if you don't already have Catfriends1 key, we probably won't have any way of obtaining it :/

>> i got the key when the repo was transferred to me.

>> Catfriend was on the lookout for a successor and I already knew him from another OSS project they did a while ago. we agreed and I was asked to create a new account after I got keys and creds to their original account. it turned out to be a bad idea to reuse their name so I created a new one.

[0] https://github.com/Catfriend1/

[1] https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing...

A good example of what happens when poor communication and lack of transparency collides..