Yeaaah… As a user, I didn’t know they were doing this, its enough to make me question the integrity of the code and maybe switch to something else, like syncthing Tray or just using termux to install it.

Thats… An odd way to do software development. You can pretty much do whatever with git, its a very powerful tool. Shouldn’t need to destroy and create repo’s regularly…

F-droid still has the most current builds available for the catfriend1 syncthing-fork… But yeah, this isn’t good. Damn. Was hoping if they needed to step back from maintaining a project like this, they’d at least have a call for a volunteer, or let the project languish until someone forked it again and took charge… To shut it down completely, not great for anyone.

I get that, and agree, but they could have let the user decide that. Have SMS off by default with a toggle button in settings or something.

Because what’s the point of having a private messenger if you can’t get anyone to use it.

Which is why Signal removing the SMS was a really bad move. I started to use it as my default SMS app on android was trying to convince others to do the same, so if you’re communicating with people that don’t have signal its a regular SMS and if they do, its a signal message, no juggling multiple apps that normal people will refuse to do.

Well that idea died, along with any of my regular non-techy contact’s usage of signal anymore.

Also an option, you can also use some password managers to store 2FA codes, I use KeePassXC to store the 2FA codes and then sync the database across devices with syncthing, but you could use nextcloud or google drive, etc whatever you’d like to sync. That way you don’t need your phone at all for this task.