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>>emilsj+(OP)
Broadly this is great to see and I’m sure the team has worked hard on this.

But can’t help but feel like this is a bit of knee jerk reaction to the growth of the much smaller open source product Penpot, that’s received increasing interest and even some funding since the Figma sale was announced.

Penpot has bet on making all the controls match the html/css spec as well as save everything as svg, in short having a big focus on making devs first class stakeholders.

This feels like a late response following Penpot Fest that ran recently and announced many cool dev features.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgcCPfOv5v56-fghJo2dHNB...

>>evolve+T8
Aren't there network effects to using Figma, that a self-hosted version of Penpot will never benefit from?

Just like Github vs open source Gitea alternative.

>>albert+Tc
I think the main blockers are the pain of re-learning the software, and migrating things over. Lots of designers have down this already in the last few years from sketch.

It's like software frameworks where young designers want to learn the most popular, coolest tool to help find a job, and companies want to use the most popular, coolest tool to help with hiring.

I don't think it being self-hosted changes this for better or worse, but they still have a tough task ahead to get a critical-mass switching.