Big fan of this tool (in the beta program and know the team).

It's pretty much my dream email newsletter and content publishing setup.

We recently transitioned our marketing site over to Webflow from Wordpress, but were missing the blogging experience of Wordpress and our plugins for newsletters and social post scheduling. This fit the bill perfectly.

Hrmmm...taking advantage of a global health crisis to sell stock images?

Despicable, but clever.

To be fair, community isn’t something you can really force into existence. If you look at the reddit attempts that have failed—it’s clearly difficult to get a group of people together who aren’t total noobs or in it for self promotion.

Maybe designers aren’t clamoring to contribute to a community anymore because we’ve all moved on. Anytime I look at design twitter all I see is virtue signaling and sketch vs. Figma debates. To be honest, I don’t think I’d come here any more if those people were active here.

You just described the entire internet in 2020.

Savage but true.

There’s probably 500+ static site generators and 50+ Static site CMS options out there right now—and 0 of them are anywhere near the ease of use of Wordpress for non-technical people.

Hence why Wordpress won’t die. Every time you expect a user to fire up the command line + git and deal with constant errors over installing and updating and configuring packages and pre-fixers and build process and blah blah blah...you’ve lost 98% of your potential customer base.

I think there’s been a massive misunderstanding here based around the “pro” naming.

The MacBook Pro has become so popular people think of it as a prosumer machine...however this Mac Pro is truly a “Pro” machine, there’s nothing Prosumer about it. If you are just dabbling in 3D rendering you are not a pro.

You will be completely fine with an upgraded iMac or Mac mini or MacBook Pro or even the iMac Pro if you want to get crazy.

If things like the ability to natively edit RAW 6K ProRes with Live Color correction and is of no benefit to you....why would you even think of buying a machine like this??

It’d be like if you wanted to just try your hand at film production and bought a $40,000 RED camera (professional film gear) instead of a used canon 5D mark iii (prosumer film gear).

I found all of those things tiring and uninteresting (very Linkedin)...hence why I've stuck around here instead.

I've been here for years now and it seems the low point was when downvoting was introduced.

Since then things have rebounded a bit, and seem to be slowly getting back to normal.

It's never been a super active community, which I used to be annoyed by but am starting to find refreshing. If you want to see the community get better, start posting interesting links and quality comments. Be the change you want to see in the world.

It's a law of nature. Any design-related subreddit must devolve into normies asking what the name of this corny-ass wedding font is 4 times every hour.

You haven't seen any because the people just now nearing that age were the first designers.

Visual software interfaces have been common since the 80s.

Also what makes you think the design industry as it is now—UX and UI design as you say—will continue to exist in its current form in 10 years? If design has completely changed in the last decade, why do you think the changes are suddenly going to stop?

I think we’re all fooling ourselves as to the real reason there’s no old people in design (whether it’s in tech OR old school editorial design at magazines). The truth is, ageism is a far bigger problem than we want to admit, and keeping up with trends as you age is a harder task than we think.