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0 pointsyuchi3y ago0 comments

If true, congratulations for Figma founders, and a bad day for designers that were looking for a way to escape from Adobe.

I don’t think that in the long term this will give Figma as an ecosystem any benefit — unless Adobe will keep it separate from the main Creative Cloud.

This reminds me of the Trello acquisition.

As a loyal Figma user I’m pretty sceptical of the future. Hope to be wrong.

UPDATE: Looks like it is indeed true… https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2022/Adobe-to-Acqui...

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yuchiOP3y ago· 5 in thread

UPDATE n. 2: Dylan Field (CEO of Figma) has addressed these kind of concerns on their public disclore of the fact: https://www.figma.com/blog/a-new-collaboration-with-adobe/

Citing him:

> Adobe is deeply committed to keeping Figma operating autonomously and I will continue to serve as CEO, reporting to David Wadhwani.

As others have said, there’s really a missing OSS version out there that can compete feature-by-feature with Sketch / Figma / XD. Layout engine capabilities are the biggest missing feature in competitors.

Zealotux3y ago

>[ACQUISITOR] is deeply committed to keeping [STARTUP] operating autonomously and I will continue to serve as CEO, reporting to [NEW OVERLORD]

You won't believe what happens next.

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d3nj4l3y ago

Every time one of these "statements" happens I'm reminded of what Palmer Luckey said about Oculus when Facebook bought them, or what Jan Koum said about WhatsApp. How long before Dylan leaves to "spend time with family"?

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esskay3y ago

He must know his statement is pointless. How many times have we seen big aquisitions with promises not to mess with things, only for it to happen a year or two down the line.

You don't drop 20bn on something to let it sit at it's current level.

They'll be integrating creative cloud and making it part of the subscription. I dare say they'll close the loophole on the free plan as well that lets you have unlimited designs.

karaterobot3y ago

> Like many of you, I grew up using Adobe software and it was a critical part of my personal creative journey.

Yes, it was the part of your journey that made you realize it was a company that made bad design software, and you devoted your life to making an alternative to it. For me, it was the part of my journey I was happy to leave behind to use your alternative.

I think it's okay if he wants to make $20B, but don't spin it! A blog post like this makes me lose trust, it doesn't reassure me.

aceazzameen3y ago

I'm just going to assume he'll leave Adobe in one year to move on to his next adventure.

JKCalhoun3y ago· 2 in thread

As others will no doubt call out, Affinity have been my main-stay graphics apps for some years now. Affinity Design, Photo, Publisher....

I refuse to pay a monthly fee for something I use on a scattershot basis.

coldcode3y ago

Me as well, I refuse to give Adobe any money if I can use Affinity's products.

brainbag3y ago

I used Photoshop for 20 years and really tried to switch to Affinity, but holy cow it's so extremely different. I tried finding a good "Affinity for Photoshop Users" resource and wasn't ever able to before giving up on it and using photopea (which is great).

Bilal_io3y ago· 1 in thread

Big win for the Figma team. Big loss for consumers who have benefitted from the competitive market. I really hope this incentives Krita, Ink, Gimp or other OSS to focus more on UI design features.

I think there is a value for Adobe to add Figma to CC, Photoshop can fully focus on photo manipulation while Figma (perhaps merged with XD?) will be target UI designers.

Tijdreiziger3y ago

> I really hope this incentives Krita, Ink, Gimp or other OSS to focus more on UI design features.

A comment in another thread mentioned Penpot https://penpot.app/

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torton3y ago

I'm a long time user of Trello. After the acquisition, Atlassian foisted their login system on Trello users, but otherwise didn't substantially degrade the product.

The integration with other Atlassian services improved. There is a variety of plug-ins now, and new ways to display the data for paid plans.

Do you feel different? Any specific examples of what became worse?

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