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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 month ago (26 children)

Audacity was the first one I thought of.

Or MultiMC, PolyMC, the Sodium mod, or the original Minecraft Forge.

(Minecraft community devs need to stop having drama lmao)

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait, what happened to Audacity?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I believe they were bought by someone and eventually implemented some questionable practices. I don't remember the exact details, maybe someone else does.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I remember reading an update which said that the company went back on most (or all?) the negative changes and it's ok to use again.

I didn't confirm it myself, but that's part of why the alternatives aren't seeing as much development now

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

It was opt-out telemetry IIRC

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wasnt it something about data collection?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was, the company that bought out Audacity added a bunch of telemetry to it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

AFAIK everything was dropped in the end, and people went back to using audacity

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have used this as a drop-in replacement, with no complaints.

https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You've got to love the open-source community! If only the whole world worked like that.

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