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Comment by jollyllama | Hacker News Reader

Interesting, never heard of it. I've been using Affinity since ~2017.

photopea is one of the best examples of a web application imo. Its a full featured image editing software just running in your browser. No sign up or login required and you can just upload and quickly work off a local file for your computer. You just fire it up and start working.

Agreed. As a longtime Photoshop user, I was gobsmacked the first time I used Photopea at just how good it was. Gobsmacked even more when I found out it was all written in JS and completely running in the browser with no server backend.

EDIT: apparently my enthusiasm is outdated. I just tried to load the site in Firefox [latest version] and got the following error:

"Your browser is too old (no WebAssembly). Please, update it."

What a shame!

Perhaps you should update.

  >Perhaps you should update.

Ahem....

  >I just tried to load the site in Firefox [latest version]

Fixed now, anyway. See above ^^

You likely have a browser setting that needs to be changed. It runs fine for me in Firefox.

yeah I'm also on firefox and its working for me. this shouldn't be a problem mozilla supports webassembly

Yuu're both right. For some reason I had:

about:config > javascript.options.wasm > FALSE

Could be that's the default. I certainly don't remember disabling WebAssembly at any time.

Photopea working fine in FF now.

Hmm, are you on an old version of FF? I just tried it in 106.0.1 on Ubuntu and it worked fine (even with uBlock and some other adblockers).

The pixelation on affinity magic wand / bucket combo is ridiculous. The poor quality of Affinity results makes it unusable for me.

Photopea just works.

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