Fable is winding down
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Fable is winding down
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#2Sad, I’ve been waiting for the “figma of after effects”—one of the few positive (albeit unlikely) potentials around the failed adobe purchase.
“However, by the time we started to take Fable to market, AI was beginning to challenge the very nature of software itself, and our multi-modal bet with Prism wasn’t enough to cut through. And while we hold a strong pov on how the next generation of creative workflows should evolve, unfortunately, we don’t have the time to get there.”
Failed AI bet?
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#3Has someone reimplemented the flash Editor in some open source project? I know there's a player made in rust.
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#4If the founders drop by this thread:
* Please open source it! *
This is the best conclusion for everybody involved.
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#5The app is built, why not just let it simmer for awhile. Are the costs of running it greater than the money it brings in?
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#6> On November 15, 2024, the Fable product will be shut down. All users will no longer be able to sign up, log in, or access files. All customer data and project files will be permanently deleted [...]
> We recommend you look through your Fable files and export your projects off the platform (e.g. to mp4, gif, lottie… etc).
I genuinely am at a loss for words here. Somebody sat down and decided that giving you your project sources in some form is too much work, just a GIF export will do.
(For those looking to save their data: go for Lottie, it’s a bit more versatile and you can preserve vector data at least.)
EDIT: the ideal way to go here would of course be open sourcing the whole thing!
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#7It always amazes me how many of these "we're winding down X" stories hit the front page here and I've never heard of X. We really do work in silos, even if it doesn't seem that way.
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#8If the founders drop by this thread: * Please open source it! * This is the best conclusion for everybody involved.
Open Sourcing is a lot of work. Plus it might contain (even huge) parts that can not be open sourced.
And even unknown parts where real ownership and patents might be unknown.
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#9It always amazes me how many of these "we're winding down X" stories hit the front page here and I've never heard of X. We really do work in silos, even if it doesn't seem that way.
Or maybe it's that you're well informed and X wasn't well known...
When a product shuts down it's usually because it wasn't profitable (or not profitable enough). Either they didn't get enough paying customers or they set their pricing too low. For whatever reason- but there's probably some correlation between a product shutting down and many people not being aware of its existence.
Even without being well known, these stories can hit the front page if a few people upvote a post quickly, and then the post gets a few sympathy votes as it rises up the page.
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#10It always amazes me how many of these "we're winding down X" stories hit the front page here and I've never heard of X. We really do work in silos, even if it doesn't seem that way.
This is what happens when massive amounts of free money slosh around courtesy of ZIRP. Question is: will everybody rush to join whatever new darling graces the front page? Or will they finally learn their lesson?