Adobe Animate: End of Life and Support Timeline

This is insane. I literally make my living using Adobe Animate. I use it EVERY DAY. I have been using it since it was Macromedia Flash, so you can guess how many .fla files I have stored. That these will all be inaccessible in a year is just… I don’t know. Insane.

ADOBE, LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS.  DO NOT END THIS PRODUCT.

Can you put yourself in the shoes of your customers, who use this product for their livelihood, the thing that feeds their families?

 

Well, this seems like a huge slap in the face to thousands of artists. Horribly disappointed in Adobe for making this decision. 

Hi, Really sad news, as i work nearly every day with Animate. 
Does shutting down mean also that the hosted library (“https://code.createjs.com/1.0.0/createjs.min.js”) will cease to exist and HTML5 ads relying on that javascript class are going to be broken?
Thanks.

The specialised press has already made its mark.

3 million Animate users!!!!! 3 million!!!!!

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/tools/adobe-animate-software-sunset-258612.html

Users need to get united. Best place to start is to sign the petition. Save Animate

I never used Adobe Animate, but this is the saddest announcement ever! Shutting Animate down forever over AI? REALLY UNJUST AND UNFAIR!!!! MAKE ADOBE SUPPORT ANIMATE FOREVER! DOWN WITH AI!!!!!!!! DON’T CANCEL ANIMATE FOREVER!! DON’T DO IT! Please! Won’t somebody think of the Adobe animators??!?! JUST MAKE IT MORE AVAILABLE!!!! 😡

Shutting down Animate and cutting off users from decades worth of work, while simultaneously focusing on anti-artist AI technology, is incredibly disrespectful to your users. Make the software open-source if you’re not going to do the work yourself.

I wish Adobe had continued to support Animate and make it into a robust competitor to Toon Boom and Moho rather than let it dwindle and then kill it. Animate is a great piece of software with a miraculously simple interface and there’s nothing quite like it. Why not take that great legacy and modernize it? Why buy it only to sweep it under the rug? I’d rather have Animate than Firefly.

First off, this is very disappointing as my team relies on Adobe Animate to create animated HMTL5 content and banners. Could this statement from Adobe be any more vague? It’s saying tech has evolved and there are new platforms, WHAT new platforms? Google web developer? Also, “Existing Animate users may continue to use the application”… does that mean it’s not going away and we can still use the application, just won’t be have any customer support after 27/29? 

Sorry your stock has not been doing well because you're losing on so many different levels and your AI is garbage. For some reason, AI is all you seem to be concerned with, how’s that been working out? Here’s an idea, stop abandoning/rug-pulling your core customers, that’s a terrible business strategy.