Dear Adobe,

I hope that this day finds you well and that my voice is heard.

Quite recently, you have chosen to both open and close project Bloom. This wouldn’t have been so bad had their still been support for Muse. Along with both of these programs, you are also no longer supporting Adobe Edge Animate.

This is an absolute travesty, as you are leaving a huge, gaping hole in a space with which you were very clearly innovating.

Each program is ahead of it’s time and each program does absolutely wonderful things.

I would like to add that Adobe Spark Page is absolutely not an adequate replacement for any of these programs.

Compared to any of the above, Dreamweaver is extremely difficult to use, and is not designer friendly at all.

There are people legitimately scared out there, that their website design business will come to a screeching halt once these programs go away altogether. I am in this crowd.

What I am proposing is for you to please combine all three programs into one super program and put Adobe Sensei behind it. As well, please come up with a mobile version (hopefully iOS first) of said program.

This will blow the competition out of the water.

I fully get and understand that augmented reality is your focus for the future. However, AR serves a wholly different purpose then a website.

As well, as a designer, I have no idea how to get an Adobe XD project from prototype to live version.

Why?

It doesn’t have a “Publish” button similar to Muse.

There are more hoops to go through, which shouldn’t be.

I would also like to touch on Adobe Edge Animate. This is a remarkable program. You had an amazing vision for it, for it to go mobile with regard to creating apps. I was right there with you, but you killed it.

You say that Adobe Animate is an adequate replacement. It absolutely is not.

The Adobe After Effects timeline is far easier to use, then messing around with sprites, cells and the like. I have always been very frustrated with Adobe Flash/Animate. It’s difficult to create web animated content with that program.

Adobe Edge Animate, I understand.

I have been using your programs for over twenty years. I am a very loyal customer and really love the company and what you do.
I am begging you.

PLEASE, DO NOT forget about this EXTREMELY important part of visual website development.

Adobe is a forward thinking company.

In this area, it’s as if you are devolving.

I was expecting something at this year’s MAX.

A screen shot. A sneak. Some kind of a hint as to an adequate replacement.

We got nothing. Nada.

I know that you say that you don’t always respond to your customers through this portal.

In this case, I think that it is your responsibility to answer the website development community at large, as to what you are planning for the future.

In the past, you have had paths for other forms of technology that you let go.

Here, there doesn’t really seem to be one.

Please advise.

Thank you kindly.

Sincerely,

Daniel L Rappaport
CEO & Director of Creation
Pazzaria Productions

http://www.pazzaria.com

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Dear Colleagues!

We share your love of Muse, two years ago me and my partner thought of and created a CMS MuWID for Muse. It already has close to full functionality - the site made in Muse is made fully dynamic. SEO workers from CMS. It is possible to create sites,blogs, portfolios, news sites, internet shops, with incredible ease of use.
Please find attached two links to a web sites made with Muse and MuWID.
http://svetlohorosho.ru
http://kb3k.ru

I have some curiosity about your opinions on CMS for Muse.
Would you like to cooperate in the prototyping and creating new useful widgets with the admin panel for Muse and evolve Muse further together?

I have been using Adobe CC (esp. Muse) for years now. I have loved the fully integrated aspect of being able to easily transition from Photoshop/Illustrator to Muse, Audition/After Effects to Premiere. The web design software is my biggest use of the Creative Cloud apps.

I just don't see it right to remove that feature, expecting members to continue to pay for the whole cloud but then have to purchase web design software elsewhere. This is REALLY frustrating in considering the volume of work it is going to take to redevelop BOTH of my websites which contain A LOT of content and which I need to be able to continue to update. Ensuring that it will remain compatible for just better than a year doesn't really provide a remedy to your users.

I am REALLY hoping that this is just in gearing up to roll out the red carpet on a new/even better web design program and it would be really great if that included a way to import the sites your members have worked so hard for so long to build. If not, I'm thinking my best bet will just be to start researching options to take all of my business/work elsewhere. I'm sorry. Not trying to be nasty. This is just not a cool move on Adobe's part and they're putting a lot of their users in a really bad spot.