Comment by supermatt

1 day ago

I really wanted to like penpot, but when I tried a few months ago, simply navigating between pages (even on the example documents) was causing parts of the document to change in bizarre ways. I didn't want that level of risk with documents I actually cared about, so continued to use figma. I guess it's time to give it another shot.

EDIT: still broken 8 months later :(

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Epskampie  12 hours ago

Same experience here. I tried it a few months ago and even on simple use I quickly ran into so many bugs & issues I quickly gave up. I'm willing to learn a new UI, but the tool must be reliable, and it simple was not.

Hopefully they've improved a lot recently?

cirelli94  1 day ago

I think you should post a issue at this point D:

  • supermatt  1 day ago

    I raised the issue in the forums at the time, with video captures demonstrating the issue(s).

    • ogrisel  1 day ago

      I think it would help to open an issue on github making explicit the following three points explicit in the report:

      - steps to reproduce from scratch;

      - what you expected to happen;

      - what you actually observed (include the screenshot or video capture in addition to a textual description).

      Otherwise, you might risk your report being ignored due to a silent misunderstanding about the mismatch between your expectations and the actual results.

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yuters  1 day ago

I've loaded an example document and do not see what you mean when navigating between pages. A problem like that should be extremely jarring and it is very hard to believe it would be ignored.

  • supermatt  1 day ago

    > A problem like that should be extremely jarring

    Agreed - I don't see how its not glaringly obvious to anyone who uses the app:

    https://imgur.com/a/hZ1ja9o

    • tgtweak  1 day ago

      Came with receipts lol - hopefully they can repro and fix this but the fact it as omitted for 8 months kind of hints at how little people are using it.

      Yeah you can really see the resize comparing the before and after. https://jpst.it/4KgSB

    • yuters  1 day ago

      Wow you're right. I've tried again with the same wireframing kit and it happened to me too! That's unbelievable.

    • ninkendo  1 day ago

      Unrelated but imgur is basically malware at this point. I had to click through so many layers of nagging popups (including a “don’t support us” button, then a severely low-contrast “view in safari” button on a dialog explicitly designed to get me to accidentally click the app link), then when I finally got to your picture, any sort of interaction with the page whatsoever, including pinch-zooming to see the image, just took me away to a different page altogether.

      I sincerely hate imgur and hope the whole site goes bankrupt, and I can’t stand it when anyone links to them.

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