This is no longer accurate.

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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. These are changes from what we shared in our original email.

Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode for all customers. This applies to individual, small business, and enterprise customers.  

Maintenance mode means we will continue to support the application and provide ongoing security and bug fixes, but we are no longer adding new features. Animate will continue to be available for both new and existing users - we will not be discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate.  

We are committed to ensuring Animate users have access to their content regardless if the state of development changes.  

Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode indefinitely - we have no plans to  discontinue or remove access to Adobe Animate. 

And nothing of value was lost. Fuck Adobe. You want me to pay you monthly? Prostitutes have better terms.

Not that I'm bitter.

Good news - they shit their pants at the obvious immediate backlash, and announced it's just not getting updates.

I'd suggest it's a door-in-the-face technique to make a second announcement more palatable through psychological priming... but I mean, they could just not update it, and nobody would fucking notice. Oh is Flash an insecure buggy piece of shit? Gee, it must be every day of the last thirty years.

Next month. I should hope it's been getting cracked on an annual basis, but this final version is getting pirated to shit for certain by all kinds of people who'd prefer to give them $800 per year.

I'm one of the weirdos who's been consistently excited for what generative animation makes possible, and even I don't understand these companies setting themselves on fire like nothing else will continue to exist. What's next, editing models mean they kill Photoshop? Or hey, video editing's been great and all, but nobody needs to import real footage when they can just describe fake live-action.

Whatever you think of neural networks - however you judge the difficulty of reproducing them - nobody can tell you not to run them. They are free, in that sense. And the local ones that run for the price of electricity on any gaming PC do not seem that far off from whatever these idiots expect to replace their tools. Their tools that are primarily used by people who unambiguously haaate neural networks. Way to Venn-diagram your customer base out of existence.