The last 24 hours were terrifying

Adobe: Just kidding! hehe...heh... unless...?

WTF, I thought they announced that they were indeed removing access.
Adobe is the perfect example of products I was enjoying using and then the great enshittification. I even got to be part of a focus group once and had pizza in their office, had positive feelings about them as a company.

@dad They absolutely did. Those are my screenshots. Yesterday, the letter had a link to a support page that stated in no uncertain terms that, the sky was falling, but you could maybe use some other Adobe skies for some sort of makeshift umbrella. Today, that same link thankfully backtracks like mad.

I am slowly-but-surely trying to move as much of my day-to-day work towards Open Source options. So tired of Adobe and the perpetual subscription model that has taken hold and controls our lives.

Saved to https://mltshp.com/thanks-a...

Yeah we had a 24hr panic at work. While we've already shifted away from Animate as a main tool (the content is now mostly 3D-based), there are still all kinds of legacy workflows and tooling that rely on Animate to operate properly. One month to unravel all of that would have been a tech art & engineering nightmare.

Why would there even have been text put together to announce this if it weren't being considered as something they might do?

Adobe makes great tools, and also is a walled garden charging exorbitant rent, and promising only poverty and misery outside its walls.

If only Affinity extended their great work across the Adobe space.

well, at least with it in maintenance mode, they won't be adding in any completely sucky new features like "AI integration" bullshit they're adding to everything else.

still don't trust them, tho

Adobe will have to pry my Photoshop CS4 edition from my cold dead hands.

Imagine having a product that is feature complete, maintained by undoubtedly a small team, and best of all is only available with a subscription. It's free money!

So obviously it makes sense to not just shut it down, but go so far as to prevent current users from continuing to access their files.

My macopolypse using your prompts:

@dad & @samh, Adobe could have easily sent us all pizza and polite warnings for a couple of years to soften the blow and they could definitely have made it open source @homerj, according to the plea's being screamed into the void on Tuesday. But I think that @Mr_Encyclopedia hits on a main cause that's been bugging me.

The program is indeed feature complete. In the last decade, I haven't seen any noticeable changes. The ruler/guides haven't worked as advertised in 25 years and shit like that, but nothing is so wrong that effects workflow... except one thing.... @cristin the 2024 update involves a weird seemingly ai feature that "records your screen" when you start changing colors. This feature a) sets a little camera on my macs' menu bar for a minute after I input new colors into a project and b) will crash the program 50% of the time unless I hit save first. I've looked this issue up before and it seems like a feature that isn't necessary or even works right. It now makes me think that Adobe tried finding ai a use within the program in the newest update, but came up short. Animate design and animation goals are not plug and play like the same features in Adobe's other programs, and producing specific animation for My Little Pony is worlds different than what it takes to make Homestar Runner. Ai isn't sophisticated enough to make so many precise decisions to stay on a singular brand atmosphere like that.

That doesn't really work with Adobe's current marketing campaigns and may have been a deciding factor in removing the program. So, @samh, your reason is right there. They didn't think about people. They thought about the overall message: You don't need skill anymore to use these programs.

Now you can see @MackReed, everyone will eventually not be paying for Adobe programs they can create things in but, rather pay for their own fully automated ai design studio starting as soon as possible.

If @otaman thinks there is panic at work because of this current hiccup, what will happen when Adobe removes all creative needs from the economy. I know that I was going to be really hit hard by the loss of Animate. I have a family to feed, bills to pay, a future to save for. It wasn't like removing a hammer from my toolbox. It was like removing the whole toolbox. And judging by the messages I read to Adobe, I was far from alone. People were panicked and. Times were about to get dark.

The only reason Adobe may have brought the app back was to avoid a deluge of financial suicide and lawsuits that may have transpired in the coming weeks. The only ones who would have survived would have taken a cue from @mikenmar...

I was planing on creating a separate station to host Animate using the current mac software versions for an eternity. I would have named it after Adventure Time's BMO in the hopes that it too would last forever.

Thank you for taking the time to address this response to everyone. I was truly curious and your perspective provides a potential view into this situation. It's also dreadfully saddening as is much of the pay-to-play consumer models that grow more and more rampant every year.