[mattkevan]

Good. It absolutely would reduce innovation.

Adobe have already canned XD, which was a poor alternative to Figma, but Adobe had to at least pretend to compete.

Problem is, even though Figma have captured a large proportion of the digital design market, they took on so much funding that their only real options are a purchase or IPO.

I don’t believe that subscriptions alone would bring in enough for the kind of returns the VCs are looking for, especially as it’s almost free for individual designers.

And so the enshittification begins.

[ljm]

I tried uninstalling Adobe software from my PC a few weeks ago.

Clicking on ‘uninstall’ booted up their cloud launcher app, and then I had to log in with an account, and then it had to install four or five different updates in sequence, and then it tried auto-updating the software I had installed, and after about thirty minutes of making sure Adobe obtained all of their analytics I was finally able to uninstall everything.

It is one of the worst user experiences I’ve ever encountered in recent times and it is a sign of what will happen to Figma under Adobe’s leadership. Figma is too much of a threat to them, so they can just squash it in an acquisition.

The revamped Serif suite is much nicer.

[boomskats]

I own all the Serif products and love the company, but have to say v2 is so buggy on windows still. I hear it's better on mac, though I've had it crash on iOS a few times. I've gone back to mostly using designer v1.

[quitit]

Adobe, Netflix, Google, etc.

They all need to realise one thing. You can choose to start something, but it's only the audience that can choose to end it.

Whether that's a new app, series, or web tool: the problem is the same, no one is going to invest their time and effort on something that will be canned if it is not an instant success.

Each are now trapped in a problem of their own making: people avoid their new offerings for fear of wasting their time, dooming the new entry.

[8ytecoder]

We need a term for it - the fear of adopting something because it might be cancelled based on past history leading to the cancellation further confirming that these companies would cancel new products.

[mattkevan]

The word Google has already been used as a noun, so we could slightly repurpose it and use it again.

E.g. “That Netflix show is fantastic but I wouldn’t bother starting it as it got Googled at the end of the first season.”

Or:

“Google’s new messaging service looks cool but I’m not going to get everyone to use it as I bet they’ll only go and Google it in about 18 months.”

[spandrew]

This is absolutely right, and why their new dev tools feature add an additional $25 per seat to use.

Even though I would rather pay less — if the integration between a Design System and Github is clean enough it might be worth it for my DSM team? It's real value. It's also why they launched Figjam — which has gotten Miro off of my balance sheet.

I want Figma to scale up and be the anti-Adobe. Financial balance of Figma aside - this acquisition kinda sucks.

[pcurve]

They're also continuing to cripple free seat functions.

[mushbino]

They also recently got rid of most of the free tier. Many files I had from years of use gone overnight without warning. I used the free version as a personal depository for files, I made using the pro version paid for by my employers.