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by Myzel394 200 days ago
I tried to self host penpot a few months ago but the app would crash after a few minutes and not properly show the canvases. So a no for me
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zonghao 200 days ago
They seem to update very frequently; I don't know if it still crashes now — I'm planning to try it myself.
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zonghao 197 days ago
I self-hosted Penpot, and during use I also encountered crashes — but it was my browser that crashed. I’m not sure what caused it (because I was forced to close the page).
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v3ss0n 200 days ago
What i tested happned 5 months ago. if the issue exist 1 month ago too it is the same problem.

The problem lies with the whole thing is XML and SVG unlike Figma's Canvas/WebASM . The whole thing is unable to scale.

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IseardMi 199 days ago
They are actually working on a new canvas-based rendering engine in order to get away from using the DOM so that should help performance quite a bit.

https://community.penpot.app/t/its-time-for-penpot-to-almost...

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v3ss0n 199 days ago
that gonna be huge effort , looking forward to that.
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