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Adobe Animate was shutting down next month - Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode. (www.theverge.com)
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Update: Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode.

https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/kb/maintenance-mode.html

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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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. 

[–] gaymer@aussie.zone 1 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Report the post for spreading false info. I already did

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 5 points 17 hours ago

No, it should be updated instead, so that the chronology of events is accurately represented :

  • Adobe announces they will kill Flash (="Adobe Animate"), in the sense that people won't be able to run the program anymore, losing access to all their work, companies relying on it for animated show production being put at tremendous financial risk
  • immense backlash
  • Adobe walks back
[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 7 points 18 hours ago

It's outdated information rather than false information. It was true at the time the article was written.

It deserve to be updated with a notice, maybe not taken down.