The new owners of Audacity did this and then gaslit the community about it for weeks, despite constant, almost unanimous backlash.
After that, they resolved to only add "Don't Send"/"Send" crash reporting and opt-out update checking, which only sends the OS version, Audacity version, and IP address. (They claim to immediately anonymize the IP address.) The user is notified about the update checking at first startup.
Which part of this do you consider "doing this and gaslighting the community about it"?
There's your answer.
> Which part of this do you consider "doing this and gaslighting the community about it"?
Telling long time users that the new owners knew better. Everyone was able to go and check out how they ruined their other products too.
They had an army of people telling them "no" and they did it anyway.
You seem to be familiar with the fiasco so I'm not sure how we aren't seeing the same thing....
So you're saying that opt-out automatic update checking ruined their product by any reasonable definition, and they were entirely aware of this, so by claiming that automatic update checking is useful they were gaslighting their users?
If so, then from what source are we certain that the "army of people telling them 'no'" in the relevant GitHub issues is representative of how their broader user base feels about automatic update checking? And how do we know that they ought to have been similarly certain?
But the creators (someone trying to be "owners" of sowmth5 that is just a name, lol) has the foresight to make it free and open source, so we have Tencity, the original software with a new name.