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Autodesk made almost 5 billion dollars in 2023. You can host a vBulletin forum with incredibly high traffic for a couple thousand a year. Stop making excuses for shitty companies.

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And that forum also provides an enormous amount of value to a company, saving them many multiples of that cost in reduced support expenses.

Deleting this is madness.

> And that forum also provides an enormous amount of value to a company, saving them many multiples of that cost in reduced support expenses.

The calculus has changed a bit. They are losing sales from people using older versions of the software that they wouldn't have provided support for anyways. In Adobe's mindset, for example, Photoshop CS6 is the poison that is holding back subscription sales, not their competitors. So an easy way to frustrate users into subscribing to the latest version... delete the old forum posts!

See I want to say you're right, but also the newer versions have all the same bugs the old ones do.

But the user pays forever with new version! (Some manager wants bonus now)

Not this user! One of my 2024 goals was to get off Adobe, and off I am. And creating hasn't felt this good in years, I shit you not.

I’m not in a field where I use any Adobe software, so asking as a bystander: what did you end up switching to?

Replaced Photoshop with Affinity Photo. I didn't say it was a big goal for me ^^; But yeah. It was an adjustment but I cannot get over how fast AF is compared to PS.

I've gotta say that I love Photo. I'm not a professional and I can't speak to professional needs, but for my own simpler needs, it's so much easier and faster than PS. I imagine that's what happens if you don't have 30 years of users screaming if you change their workflow by a single pixel, and can re-invent UIs based on newer ideas.

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