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TLDR; We want to get free users to move to paid plans sooner, by (a) relaxing sharing limits, and (b) reducing the amount of pages you can create to 3 unless you upgrade.

Existing work created prior to 21 April will be unaffected.

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Catch all the users very early, grow quickly with VC capital, give the users whatever they want and then later force them to pay up by limiting access to the tools they love. - Silicon Valley VC Playbook.

As an employee (not of Figma I mean of VC backed companies in general) it's also frustrating because you join based on some vision and then you often end up hating the feature throttling for philosophical (empathy with users) or practical reasons (makes it harder to sell or market if that's your job)

Remember when products were getting better over time... now their value starts meh (MVP), becomes great (thanks to funding), and then reverts to meh (when finally focusing on unit economics)

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For solo people using Figma this shouldn't affect them too much, but naturally those are likely fewer than teams/collaborators.

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