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ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust

98 points · 99 comments · aghuang

_stillmind · 1791163485 · focus · HN ↗
I'll just keep using Affinity.
1. lukeify · 1791163828 · focus · HN ↗
  …which was bought by Canva and has already been enshittified.
  1. Gigachad · 1791164559 · focus · HN ↗
    It really hasn't been enshittified. They made everything that already existed in Affinity free without any catches. And then added some new AI powered editing tools which require a subscription. Tools which you don't need and can ignore easily.
    lukeify · 1791169333 · focus · HN ↗
    It was enshittified the moment it became a single app.
    Serious publishers don't want a photo editing program in their UI.
    dofm · 1791175302 · focus · HN ↗
    The way it works now is pretty much how studio link worked in v2 if you had all three apps (and indeed the file format was already shared by the three apps, under the hood).
    Nothing has been enshittified, and indeed if you knew anything about Affinity, the fact that they chose that name, had a three pointed logo and a single shared file architecture, and the way they have talked about the integration in the suite, you would have predicted this for v3 whether or not Canva bought them. This integration was always going to happen.

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