I believe they were bought by someone and eventually implemented some questionable practices. I don’t remember the exact details, maybe someone else does.
Wasnt it something about data collection?
It was, the company that bought out Audacity added a bunch of telemetry to it
Any good alternatives?
I have used this as a drop-in replacement, with no complaints.
You’ve got to love the open-source community! If only the whole world worked like that.
AFAIK everything was dropped in the end, and people went back to using audacity
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
It was opt-out telemetry IIRC
