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

[–] turing_spider574@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

It was opt-out telemetry IIRC

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months 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

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wasnt it something about data collection?

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] tomsh@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Any good alternatives?

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity

[–] tomsh@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

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