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Well that’s the end of Figma then. It was fantastic while it lasted.

Although it’s still great software I’m stopping usage today because a) I refuse to support adobe and b) I’m confident the software will progressively get much worse, so any investment today is a waste of time I should spend finding and learning something else.

Is there a blender of tools like this?

Inkscape, penpot and/or maybe gimp afaik.

Inkscape is unusable sorry. It can’t support any of my workflows. The only real alternative for Adobe at the time being is Affinity

None of these solve the same problems and they have the usual problems of free software. Grandious ideas but godawful UX and no interest to fix them.

Common things are so obtusely buried in these applications. It's extraordinary the decisions they make.

Maybe there should be a telematics tool for gtk that tracks when a user is clicking around looking for something and treats it like a bug report after a program crash.

Some Non-Obtrusive (very important) dialog says something like "looking for something? Tell us what and where you're expecting it so we can add it".

There's no reason at all things can't be in 2 or 3 places instead of like View / Interface Options / General / Advanced / ... or wherever the hell someone decided to place it.

Penpot is foss afaik

MPL 2.0 licensed. See: https://github.com/penpot/penpot

We have „figma for xyz” but more often it should be „blender for xyz”

Would be awesome if all software tools were gravitating towards the non-profit financed-by-big-stakeholders model like blender is.

It’s not free, but Sketch is a fantastic (also MacOS native) alternative.

I love Sketch but macOS is no longer the OS I spend the most times in, which is Linux and Windows. I'd love for Sketch to be cross-platform, I'd buy one license per year just to support them.

So my only option was Figma and now... Now what? Damn this sucks.

Check out Framer. It's actually a really nice UI/UX and prototyping tool, but is pretty opinionated in how you set up your file (IMO). I used it a lot when I was freelancing because it gave me a little more power than Sketch did, at the time, and was more mature than Figma. They are the one product I know of currently that has web, Windows and Mac clients.

This ^ is what's lead my small sample size of companies to move from Sketch to Figma. The focus on cross platform and ease of use that Figma had really helped drive adoption across a wide range of company sizes which is probably why this is such a logical acquisition for Adobe.

Lunacy from Icons8 is cross-platform and Sketch compatible.

Thanks for mentioning.

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Ok it is the multiple user editing that people liked so much about figma. Ok that makes sense. Ignore me.

A textbook example of capitalism squashing innovation.

It's ironic to think that VCs, who enable a company to start and build, are ultimately invested in its demise.

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