Penpot - Design Freedom for Teams

[marcusquinn]

Since the news on Adobe purchasing Figma, there seems to have been a significant movement of people looking for an alternative, and sub-set looking for an open-source alternative:

• https://twitter.com/penpotapp

Getting Penpot into the Cloudron App Store would be a big win right now.

[yeku]

@marcusquinn I agree. For many users Penpot seems like an excellent alternative to Figma, particularly because Adobe purchased Figma back in September 2022.

[scooke]

@marcusquinn At the moment I use Caprover because it already has Penpot. If I could move my work to my Cloudron that would be super.

[yeku]

@scooke I see. I read that CapRover hasn't been updated much lately. Are you looking to move away from CapRover because it hasn't been updated much lately?

[scooke]

@yeku I use it mostly for a few apps that Cloudron doesn't have, but also because the server my Cloudron is on wouldn't be enough to host all the apps I like to use. So I'm spreading things out.

[yeku]

@scooke Oh. I see. That makes sense.

[girish]

Penpot is packaged and ready - https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/penpot-app . But, it requires redis 6. So, we are working on getting 7.4 out asap (new discourse also needs the updated redis).

[timconsidine]

@girish Whoa ! That's huge !
Well done, and look forward to it.

[m-si]

@girish absolutly fantastic... for almaost any development a vaiable alternative to figma...you guys are awsome...

[scooke]

@girish I woke up this morning, as though from a feverish dream, thinking to myself, "Did I really read something about penpot last night on the forum?" I went to work, and now, late, just had time to enter "penpot" in the forum search, and discover that it was not just a dream.
Can't wait!

[rstockm]

@girish This is great news. For Adobe purchased Figma, lot's of people would like to jump on the Penpot train.

[yeku]

@girish Yeah! This is excellent news! Penpot will be a welcome addition.

[yeku]

@rstockm said in Penpot - Design Freedom for Teams:

Adobe purchased Figma

That assertion is false: Adobe has not purchased Figma. In fact Adobe announced their intention to purchase Figma. Of course an intention to purchase is not a purchase.

"Adobe (ADBE) stock fell Friday on news that the U.S. Department of Justice plans to block the software giant's $20 billion acquisition of Figma." Source: Adobe Stock Falls As Feds Move To Block $20 Billion Figma Purchase

Generally, big tech has become very unpopular in the USA over the last few years. Generally, chastising big tech is an easy way for politicians to burnish their image with voters.

However, in this case I have surmised (like many other observers), that, realizing that $20 billion was a ridiculously high price to pay for Figma, Adobe's board of directors decided to use the U.S. Department of Justice to nix the deal. Figma seems to be a very popular and very good product, but $20 billion was an utterly absurd price.

[girish]

@yeku you are right! The purchase is actually not done yet, I had no idea.

[yeku]

@girish I presume the purchase will never go through. I would not be surprised if Adobe ends up with a new CEO within a year or two because, it seems to me, that trying to buy Figma for $20 billion was inexcusably foolhardy.

[andreasdueren]

@girish This hasn't been published yet in the app store yet, correct?

[timconsidine]

@andreasdueren it requires stable release of 7.4, I believe, so not yet

[girish]

We will put it out next week

[luckow]

@girish ping. week is over I can't wait to try Penpot on Cloudron.

[ei8fdb]

@luckow

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. 🧘

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

This is great news. I'll be hitting refresh on the appstore every day from now on.