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Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

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> unlimited storage Surely it's not actually unlimited. I wish such claims wouldn't be as common in the industry.

It likely is as it is not general purpose storage. Even though your Linux iso's are called "images", they can not be added to a penpot design file - sorry to say.

Can penpot import images? Given enough time, anything that can store PNG will become an automated backup backend

Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

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HN users want to know if you're allowed to host the whole Internet on it.

This is why we can't have nice things. People see 'unlimited' and will do everything in their power to 'fact-check' it, forcing the producer to place a 'hard cap' and making everyone's life worse.

Don’t use the unlimited lie then, I assume.

Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

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For folks who want a stand-alone desktop release: https://github.com/author-more/penpot-desktop/releases

That's a pity: > Penpot Desktop loads the Penpot web application like a browser does. For offline use, the built-in local instance creator can set up and run a local Penpot instance via Docker (per the official self‑hosting guide).

Came here to complain about the same. I downloaded the app, but it needs an online account. What's the whole purpose of making it open source and downloadable, if it doesn't work offline?

Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

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Why don’t they provide a desktop version, similar to software such as GIMP, Inkscape, and others? Do they believe they cannot achieve the desired revenue through crowdfunding? Many projects—most notably Blender—have been highly successful using this approach. It seems unreasonable that an average designer should be required to learn server administration

Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

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So, Java instead of wasm, but open source. While LogSeq is an open source copycat (not really) of Obsidian, I simply can’t stand it. I have tried Penpot a couple of years back, so cannot say anything about it, with the exception that I noticed it’s Clojure. Would love to learn more if someone can comment on that. I guess I’m biased against Java, but I’m not experienced with it, so I may be very wrong on that one. Of course having an open-source Figma around feels empowering, so much it is ingrained into the current dev process.

Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

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They seem to update very frequently; I don't know if it still crashes now — I'm planning to try it myself.

What i tested happned 5 months ago. if the issue exist 1 month ago too it is the same problem. The problem lies with the whole thing is XML and SVG unlike Figma's Canvas/WebASM . The whole thing is unable to scale.

They are actually working on a new canvas-based rendering engine in order to get away from using the DOM so that should help performance quite a bit.

https://community.penpot.app/t/its-time-for-penpot-to-almost...

Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

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Why don’t they provide a desktop version, similar to software such as GIMP, Inkscape, and others? Do they believe they cannot achieve the desired revenue through crowdfunding? Many projects—most notably Blender—have been highly successful using this approach. It seems unreasonable that an average designer should be required to learn server administration

The closest analogy would be Sketch for macOS, which Figma simply copied at first, and then mostly replaced. I would love to see open source Sketch for open source systems.

Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

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post #43

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This is why we can't have nice things. People see 'unlimited' and will do everything in their power to 'fact-check' it, forcing the producer to place a 'hard cap' and making everyone's life worse.

Don’t use the unlimited lie then, I assume.

It's not a lie if no one is abusing it.

Travel to high trust societies if you don't get what I mean.

Things would be so much easier if we could expect human decency and ethics, even if there is no law against it, because it goes against our values as humans.

Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

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So, Java instead of wasm, but open source. While LogSeq is an open source copycat (not really) of Obsidian, I simply can’t stand it. I have tried Penpot a couple of years back, so cannot say anything about it, with the exception that I noticed it’s Clojure. Would love to learn more if someone can comment on that. I guess I’m biased against Java, but I’m not experienced with it, so I may be very wrong on that one. Of…

Penpot is also implemented in Clojure/ClojureScript. ClojureScript is a Clojure Dialect which compiles down to JavaScript. So there is no Java involved on the frontend :)
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