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The video is great, and I’m excited for the new Audacity. But that logo/icon is an abomination.
I think the logo's supoosed to evoke a lowercase letter 'a' (for Audacity).
The video talks a lot about bending over backwards to not lose existing users. They could have kept a smaller version of the waveform between the earcups as an homage to the original icon.
Wasn't there some drama around Audacity not being FLOSS anymore?
No, Audacity is licensed as GPLv2+.
Audacity was bought in 2021 by Muse Group, and a few weeks later, they announced that they would introduce Google Analytics and Yandex-based “telemetry”. After strong criticism by the community, Muse Group backtracked, emphasized their commitment to the GPL license, dropped their plans to include Google/Yandex tracking, and instead opted for a self-hosted solution for bug reports and update checks. Both can be disabled, and some distributions disable them by default.
Still, a few forks emerged, Tenacity is the only one that is still actively being maintained. The last commit is from today, but their repository is at 16k commits, compared to 21k commit for Audacity, so it seems the two projects have diverged.
It's a sperm/a ghost looking into a bowl?
It's def a change (that tiny, pointy, disconnected tail :|), but I guess it's a rebrand on a higher level. Either way it does communicate that the look & feel is/will be all new.
It would look much better rotated
Ragebait logo, 10/10
I understand the frustration, but responding in a salty way like this is not classy. But, as said, I can really understand the developer here.
Whose response are you talking about here?
The person on the video. I'm not sure what you mean by the question. The video begins with frustration over others opinions with wrong facts. I think the way it was handled is not very good. The few minutes in the beginning of the video. I'm still watching the rest right now.
I disagree, but that may be because I'm used to how Tantacrul videos go.
He's usually sassy like this, and the Weaver Beats video was made in bad faith.
I expect class from Idris Elba, not from the guy running a contentious open source project.
If anything, this is the upper end of what I expect from open source leadership.
The rest of the video is actually pretty good. And as said, the reaction in the beginning is totally understandable. But the way he narrated and presented the beginning part is not what I like. In one part he even zoomed in to the teeth part of the guy. Really, this looked like someone is angry at typical YouTube bullshit.
But, you know, I'm personally sassy like this too in forums. But I'm also not a leader of a project of this size. I really disliked that portion of first 4 minutes or so and even if its only that much, it sticks with me as first impression.
Yea, the teeth bit was mean spirited and unnecessary.
I don't mind sass from leadership. It's leagues better than sanitized corpo-speak.
Sass doesn't have to be mutually exclusive from professionalism, but it is a fine line to walk.
I disagree. Making shitty low-quality misinformation needs to be called out, especially since the 2nd guy disregarded the pinned comment informing the 1st guy as “damage control”
The reaction guy was only in it for the clicks and ad revenue, it’s okay to clown on a 🤡
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
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