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What comes to mind? (programming.dev)

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[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 86 points 3 weeks ago

Audacity was the first one I thought of.

Or MultiMC, PolyMC, the Sodium mod, or the original Minecraft Forge.

(Minecraft community devs need to stop having drama lmao)

[-] Korne127@lemmy.world 49 points 3 weeks ago

I love how well the PolyMC -> PrismLauncher transition went. It’s great that the asshole owning it didn’t just spew transphobic hate, but also removed the contribution rights to all other people, leading them to immediately flock to an alternative.

[-] SaintWacko@slrpnk.net 41 points 3 weeks ago

Wait, what happened to Audacity?

[-] crimsoncobalt@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago

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 weeks ago

It was opt-out telemetry IIRC

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks 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 weeks ago

Wasnt it something about data collection?

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[-] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago

Wait, what happened to Multi MC? I still use it whenever the want to play modded Minecraft returns

[-] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

I actually had to look it up as I couldn't remember why I made the first switch. PolyMC was forked from MultiMC after they dropped third-party modpack support. Then there was some drama with one of the devs of PolyMC, spawning Prism Launcher

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[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago

What happened to the Sodium mod?

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

The lead developer changed the license to a much less permissive one because of drama surrounding being credited in modpacks. The dev thinks there are forks that exist solely to sidestep crediting the original mod, I'm not up to date enough on Minecraft modding lore to know if this is true or not.

I'm pretty sure there's also a fork that branches off of the last GPL commit but I forget what it's called.

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[-] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago

what happened with the original Minecraft Forge?

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

The dev who owned the branding for forge (LexManos) is infamously abrasive and rude to others to the point where the forge community was slowly falling apart because new people didn't want to be involved with him. The rest of the team decided to rebrand to NeoForge and continue without him.

[-] rbits@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

Lol, I mean it's better to have a brief period of drama than permanently put up with the bad management. Although Sodium is an exception to that, I think the people working on it are the right people.

I'm conflicted on the license change, though. I don't know if it makes sense or not.

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[-] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 74 points 3 weeks ago

Simple Mobile Tools -> Fossify Tools

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[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 70 points 3 weeks ago

CyanogenMod, which was the base of most custom Android ROMs at one point. After taking venture funding, incompetent business majors crashed and burned the project trying to commercialize it. It was then forked and LineageOS was born.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

My big question is, why not fork the original first and commercialize that instead. So much forking around the wrong ways! /s

[-] Comment105@lemm.ee 19 points 3 weeks ago

Because business majors only know how to exploit good things that would be better off without them.

If the good thing is left to just be better off without them – while they fuck around with a separate thing – then people will never be interested in the business majors' product.

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[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

MBAs love taking an existing brand and sucking whatever value they can extract. Like chupacabras but for functioning and useful products.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

It's a forked up world.

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

iirc CyanogenMod was trademarked so the creator no longer had rights.

Its kind of sad, but I'm sure the author knew what they were getting into

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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago

I remember hearing about Cyanogen way back when, didn't realize LineageOS was forked from it

[-] starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev 52 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Gitea, took control away from community and gave it to a for profit organization. Forgejo was born

[-] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

It has been on my list to figure out how to move to forgejo, need to do it soon before the migration process breaks or gets awful.

[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

If you're using docker: change your image name from gitea to forgejo. Repull. Done. Baremetal should be just as simple. Migrations are as easy as leaving all the data in-place and changing the binary at this moment in time.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 3 weeks ago

Migration is seamless. Uninstall one binary and install the other.

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[-] TheHarpyEagle@pawb.social 52 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

OpenOffice was a really solid Microsoft Office rival, and FOSS to boot. Made by Sun Microsystems, of course, and then ruined by Oracle (of course).

Thankfully LibreOffice was forked from it and is still going strong as a very capable suite of document tools. And OpenOffice is basically dead, womp womp.

[-] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Recently tried MS Office apps for the first time in 8 or so years. Somehow they made them less intuitive than even ribbon days. They use a dark pattern save dialog that makes it easy to accidentally save to OneDrive, and if you have OneDrive disabled or uninstalled, there's an always present icon in the title bar of the main edit window that says "autosave off" even though autosave is on.

Went right back to LibreOffice after one document and one spreadsheet.

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[-] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 42 points 3 weeks ago

GNOME spawning 3 new DEs every time they have a major version update

[-] superkret@feddit.org 23 points 3 weeks ago

look under the hood
They're Gnome with extensions and a theme

[-] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

looks inside

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[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

DuckStation recently changed to a source-available license that prohibits distributing modified versions of the software and prohibits commercial use. Before, it was GPLv3.

Also OpenOffice, Emby, Audacity, Android (AOSP) (soft forked to LineageOS and GrapheneOS, but no hard fork)

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[-] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Redis / Valkey

[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 weeks ago

Insomnia suddenly turned into a ransomware. Pay up or have all you dara lost!

A few days later Insomnium popped up supporting the old file format.

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[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There are many examples of this, but one that comes immediately to mind is the evolution of my favourite LDAP-enabled music player, airsonic-advanced

Subsonic begat libresonic

Libresonic begat airsonic as well as a whole bunch of other projects.

Airsonic begat airsonic-advanced

Airsonic-advanced begat kagemomiji/airsonic-advanced, however the maintainer of the parent codebase, randomnicode, wants to do the right thing and get their code up to snuff with the opensubsonic API (not sure where that fits in to thr history) so kagemomji can take over.

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[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 11 points 3 weeks ago

Lately? Firefox...

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago

It's Mozilla that's slowly enshittifying, Firefox itself is theoretically insulated from the worst decisions they could make, but those safeguards are going to be put to the test real soon I bet.

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Any good alternatives that use the same engine, but aren't just "Firefox after rustling the about:config a bit"?

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[-] TheHarpyEagle@pawb.social 8 points 3 weeks ago

They seem so directionless lately, and by god is AI the wrong horse to bet on for their users.

I should check out LibreWolf...

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Emby

[-] TheHarpyEagle@pawb.social 7 points 3 weeks ago

Jellyfin ftw

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[-] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

mysql -> mariaDB

[-] devilish666@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I hope someone made STACER (a.k.a Bleachbit on roids) remastered
The owner of that project already abandoned it, it's sad STACER already had so....much potential compared to Bleachbit but no one wants to revive it

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