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My pessimistic take is that Audacity has been one of the most popular and well-loved FOSS projects for 20+ years, without telemetry. That's 22 years of amazing
by jjulius 5y ago
My pessimistic take is that Audacity has been one of the most popular and well-loved FOSS projects for 20+ years, without telemetry. That's 22 years of amazing software that didn't have to track users in order to be so good.
It's hard not to see the recent sale of Audacity and the introduction of telemetry as the beginning of the end of an otherwise stellar piece of software.
- TingPing 5y agoAudacity is very rough and buggy. Its popularity came from being free and featureful, not polish or focus.
- swiley 5y agoIMO: the UI is pretty good the way it is, I was even thinking that the last time I used it (last fall, I don't use it all the time which shows just how intuitive it is to people who don't use it often.)