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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by orf on Monday July 05, 2021 @06:24PM (#27742360)
Picking two applications with less global users than a small town or a large village doesn’t make a great point. They might as well have been abandoned - no relevant mass of people use them.
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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by smoldesu on Monday July 05, 2021 @06:38PM (#27742472)
Ah, my bad. I'll stick to S&P Top 500 companies next time.
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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by orf on Monday July 05, 2021 @07:07PM (#27742683)
No, stick to forks that manage to reach a self-sustaining level above “one or two users cherry-picking from an upstream repo as a passion project”.

My point is that a fork can be abandoned by users even if the project is still active.

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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by monetus on Monday July 05, 2021 @07:36PM (#27742838)
Your point is worth thinking about it, audacity needs a critical mass of users. But does it have enough original users to keep from being considered abandonded already?

Edit: to be clear, other software is often used instead of audacity. It isn't as well known as say photoshop, or maybe even inkscape.

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