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This is really good news ๐ฅณ
Figma is such a great project I use it all the time, even for Random thoughts, and adobe was going to ruin it by making it part of their suite of apps, and of course making the free tier worthless or removing it altogether
I don't like the lack of a native app on Figma. Also, the lack of offline files.
But it wasn't Adobe. So fuck them.
Then I heard they were buying Figma and that was the last straw. I switched to Lunacy (by icons8). It's got a native app for Windows, works offline AND supports Figma project importing ๐๐๐. I miss the Figma plugin store, NGL. But I can just add stuff to a Figma project and then import into Lunacy at this point ๐
believe me, if they were Adobe you can kiss that "save local copy" feature goodbye, and they'll say : well it's cloud based, you don't need local files
Both Figma and Lunacy have their drawbacks and advantages, Lunacy is great if you're an asset hoarder, ( there's also the licensing problems, that's why its best to stick to open source assets )
Lunacy has Pichon which unfortunately doesn't have a linux version, I wanted to use Linux, so that's why I picked Figma
When I first heard the news I immediately signed up to Penpot, it has potential and can be selfhosted so you can own your files
I didn't know about any licensing problems with Lunacy.
Penpot I'm waiting for the desktop app. It's dope and I await the native apps ๐ค๐ผ
The licensing issues don't come from Lunacy, they come from the assets you download from the internet, many of them can be used for personal use but not commercial use, so if you design for a client and use a particular set of icons or illustrations or fonts, the client might come back to you later saying someone emailed them regarding their unauthorized use of their assets, the client might not know what the hell is a copyright claim, theyll be confused, worst yet, frustrated with you
Penpot has a desktop app ( I don't know if it's available on Windows ), made by a third party developer
I see...
Also, WHAT?! WHY HAVEN'T I SEEN THIS BEFORE?!
Edit: nvm. Not a windows package ๐ซ
I was very disappointed when Adobe tried to acquire figma, I switched from XD to figma only to minimize my digital experience from Adobe. It's a great news
I didn't like the workflow of AdobeXD and the product seemed badly put together, like half offline/half online
Also I wanted to use Linux :-)
Adobe love their money, they buy the competition and tie it to their creative cloud, which means they also love DRM, I was disappointed when they bought that 3D texturing software ( forgot it's name ) even though I don't use it, but I hate to see stuff like this happen because it kills innovation
time to revive that buggy adobeXD I guess .... xD