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troupo 7 hours ago

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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pjc50 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There was a cartoon on bluesky with the dialogue:

"we've listened and we're going to keep offering Animate" (crowd cheers)

".. but we're not going to make any changes to the software" (crowd cheers louder)

"wait why are they still cheering"

.. the joke being that the customers don't want the software to materially change, just so long as it continues to run.

	▲	troupo 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		We have to learn that a lot of software can be just that: done, without requiring a continuous of new superfluous features

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bryant 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, framed differently:

> A material number of customers see Animate as a differentiator from our competitors, so even if we only provide support and security patches, the investment is justified for retention.

I don't really think there's a hidden agenda here. The announcement surfaced new information for them, they probably reframed their own analytics and saw insights that backed maintaining Animate as a result.

	▲	troupo 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> The announcement surfaced new information for them, they probably reframed their own analytics and saw insights That's such corporate-speak. It means they don't know their customers at all and/or couldn't care less. They literally told major animation studios that the product is going to be dead in just a month. And now they slightly backtracked the decision by promising vague support and bug fixes. Internally the product is already dead (otherwise there wouldn't be an announcement), teams disbanded and/or re-organized. They will fund a skeleton crew for "bug fixes", and the product will eventually be broken beyond repair in the same time frame as in the original deprecation notice.