Adobe reverses decision to discontinue Animate, puts app into “maintenance mode” instead
After widespread criticism from the creative community, Adobe has reversed its earlier decision to discontinue its Animate platform. The official update clarifies that Adobe Animate will remain accessible for all current and new customers, ensuring ongoing access to both the software and user-generated content. There is no longer a set date for removal from the Adobe lineup.
Following the change, Adobe Animate has entered “maintenance mode”. This means that while no new features will be developed, Adobe will continue to support the application with security and bug fixes. The company states this policy applies to individual, business, and enterprise customers, and emphasizes that users' content and workflows will remain supported regardless of future development changes.
Although many users expressed relief after the reversal, some dissatisfaction remains. Key voices in the user base have criticized the subscription-based licensing model, arguing that Animate should convert to a perpetual license since Adobe no longer plans to add new features. These ongoing discussions highlight lingering concerns about long-term value for Animate subscribers.
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- Adobe Animate maintenance modeAdobe • Official source
- Adobe reverses decision to discontinue Animate, apologizes for 'confusion and angst within the community'TechRadar
- After backlash, Adobe cancels Adobe Animate shutdown and puts app on 'maintenance mode'TechCrunch
- Adobe tries to kill Animate, then reverses course after industry backlashTechSpot
- Adobe Animate is not dead, company reverses action after widespread backlashNeowin
- Adobe will not discontinue Animate after allNewsBytes
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Found my CS6 Master Collection the other day. It was so cool to see all the stuff you got and all the stuff you could do. I remember making animated comics with Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Premiere, doing something to them in InDesign, then putting them onto a website I made with Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Using Flash Builder to (try) to make games. Making custom DVD menus for my Naruto DVDs.
Now it's like you get: Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and After Effects. Everything else is on the edge of being discontinued or some mini-slop app.
The same people who claim that Adobe is the industry standard and they have no power to make Adobe listen to them just forced Adobe to listen to them. WILD!
Gee, worlds most unpopular decision reversed, at some point we need to regulate and breakup monopolies otherwise they'll keeping trying this stuff.
Not the first time they pulled this stunt actually. It's FrameMaker all over again -- which is still in limbo even until today because the huge amount of technical documents required Adobe to sustain its existence.
FrameMaker, tell me about this.
Back in the 90s, FrameMaker was the popular tool that every company used to make highly technical publications (instruction manuals, project plans, etc). But its usage is kinda overlapped with desktop publishing software such as QuarkXpress and InDesign, which is easier to use and more appealing for average home users. After purchasing FrameMaker in 1995, Adobe didn't add any noteworthy features for over a decade, and with the emergence of their homegrown InDesign there was a rumor that they wanted to phase out FrameMaker for good. That supposed to happen, but turned out that there was still some niche that InDesign couldn't fill up -- not to mention a ton of thousand-page long documents which couldn't be easily adopted into other formats. So every two years or so, Adobe would release a "new" version of FrameMaker just to keep it compatible with modern system (Windows only, Apple really loathed them for dropping MacOS support in the 2004).
Wow, regulation and breakups of monopoly are needed to extreme extent, as well as copyright reform.