Good, Figma wasn't a good Photoshop alternative anyway.
Figma is an alternative to XD, and it blows it out the water. Not sure what you're trying to say.
Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
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Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
#472This is probably the only tech acquisition that's ever made me sad. I just hate Adobe so much. The nightmare of their installer, the weird store with horrible designs popping up when you activate normal ui stuff, the difficulty in canceling a subscription, and the stasis in their product and ui. Oh and the sloppiness of Lightroom on mac with it's weird ui and that it didn't even import and manage photos well. I've be…
Tried to run away from Adobe and they still got me, RIP... Will have to move again once they ruin Figma with feature overload.
Simplicity is so hard to achieve with design and Figma has done a great job striking the balance with feature set and simplicity. All the while delivering a super responsive platform.
Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
#473Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still run a 22 year old copy Fireworks 4 because of Adobe's shenanigans. Just this morning I had to crop and resize a 1 MB image for display on a website and was able to do that in Fireworks in about 2 minutes resulting in 15k PNG and was on to my next task.
There is absolutely zero need to keep a 22 year old copy of fireworks around just to resize and crop an image. None.
On the other hand, if you have it around anyway, there is no reason not to use it to resize an image.
Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
#474It was a good run lol.
Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
#475This is probably the only tech acquisition that's ever made me sad. I just hate Adobe so much. The nightmare of their installer, the weird store with horrible designs popping up when you activate normal ui stuff, the difficulty in canceling a subscription, and the stasis in their product and ui. Oh and the sloppiness of Lightroom on mac with it's weird ui and that it didn't even import and manage photos well. I've be…
>the difficulty in canceling a subscription Never had an issue with this tbh, it's always very easy. Manage account > cancel plan. Hell, if you subscribe but then cancel within the same day, they give you a full refund. I've abused this a few times if I just need to do something quick - sub, use it for a few hours, cancel, and it doesn't cost me anything.
Adobe pioneered the "click cancel plan but we will offer you some stuff that you don't care about in order to stop you from cancelling your plan" dark pattern.
Then on the support call they will straight up pretend that none of their systems work in order to stop you from cancelling.
Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
#476Time start an alternative startup because figma is soon gonna stagnate once it is acquired.
Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
#477Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used Fireworks for years for web design stuff - it was simple to use, but fully featured, a real joy to use. As soon as Adbobe bought Macromedia, I knew they would shitcan it because of Photoshop and Illustrator. And I knew other nice Macromedia tools, like Dreamweaver, would have a similar fate. Such a shame, and buying a competitor just to kill it feels so wrong :( I'm not totally sure if Figma will suffer a simi…
> I used Fireworks for years for web design stuff I still use it as my primary web/ui design tool and in fact am stuck on MacOS Mojave because I'd have to say goodbye to it forever if I upgraded.
Die-hard Fireworks user, I salute you!
Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
#478Agree with @tambourine_man Adobe will KILL Figma just like Freehand. Adobe is a predatory borg that will kill innovation.
Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
#479This is probably the only tech acquisition that's ever made me sad. I just hate Adobe so much. The nightmare of their installer, the weird store with horrible designs popping up when you activate normal ui stuff, the difficulty in canceling a subscription, and the stasis in their product and ui. Oh and the sloppiness of Lightroom on mac with it's weird ui and that it didn't even import and manage photos well. I've be…
>the difficulty in canceling a subscription Never had an issue with this tbh, it's always very easy. Manage account > cancel plan. Hell, if you subscribe but then cancel within the same day, they give you a full refund. I've abused this a few times if I just need to do something quick - sub, use it for a few hours, cancel, and it doesn't cost me anything.
I'm paying via Paypal so I've just cancelled the adobe subscription through their subscription management panel. Is there any reason why this might be a bad idea?
PS I just remembered that I forgot to cancel the subscription and they want to charge me 40 quid for the rest of the year. I even had a reminder set, but I missed it. So annoying.
Re: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
#480I'm dismayed by this acquisition but glad to see the near-universal dislike towards Adobe in this thread. How can a $150B+ company exist with this much disdain for its business practices and products? I'm guessing Adobe's primary customer base is large corporations who don't care rather than individual users?
For one, Photoshop & Illustrator have a significant history and feature advantage on most competitors. But for two: "How can a $150B+ company exist with this much disdain" -- Have you looked at Oracle lately?
I should add that Adobe used to be loved by us nerds. They always had management issues, I think, and developed a reputation as a software sweat shop I think; but back up until the mid or even late 90s they were seen as a high quality software maker with innovative products. Photoshop & Illustrator were untouchable, and they were seemingly inspired by and made best on the Mac so helped make the Mac kind of a hip "creator" platform.