alt Hacker NewsHeadline is out of date. They changed their plans. From the link:
> We are not discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate. Animate will continue to be available for both current and new customers, and we will ensure you continue to have access to your content. There is no longer a deadline or date by which Animate will no longer be available.
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troupo • today at 8:39 AM
They only "changed" them because it materially affected them.
"We're going to provide support and security patches" means "in a year we'll quietly stop any work on it anyway"
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falloutx • today at 9:55 AM
People who still move to other options, if you can find something thats offline & local, as Adobe will rethink it in next couple of months again.
I suspect this may be driven by subscription consequences. In the UK consumer rights mean that you're able to cancel a subscription commitment if the offering is materially changed. I used this in the past when Adobe withdrew a product to cancel an annual license I no longer needed mid-term.
Making a zombie product probably has a lower impact on their revenues.