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You're thinking in terms of badly designed technologies you are familiar with. I'm talking just about a solution to the problem at hand: Instead of storing fi

by hsn915 4y ago

You're thinking in terms of badly designed technologies you are familiar with. I'm talking just about a solution to the problem at hand: Instead of storing files on servers controlled by a 3rd party company (and calling it "the cloud"), you store the files on servers that you control (and don't call it the cloud). I didn't say anything about share point or how the files are to be stored. This can be a feature builtin to figma or any application that is "cloud native": all you need to configure is the server address.

542458 4y ago
While I somewhat agree, in my experience in practice the “just run it locally” approach results in software I need to use a clumsy and slow VPN to access, runs on servers that are either wildly over or underpowered, is constantly going down for maintenance, and never gets updated beyond essential security patches. The org I work for recently switched from on-prem Jira to cloud Jira, and the cloud version is a breath of fresh air by comparison. I’m sure some IT departments are better at this than others, but in my experience most of them aren’t great at it.
jasode 4y ago
>I'm talking just about a solution to the problem at hand: >Instead of storing files on servers controlled by a 3rd party company (and calling it "the cloud"), you store the files on servers that you control (and don't call it the cloud). I guess I can't tell if you're talking hypothetically or giving a realistic alternative that designers can use today. Is there a "local corporate web collaboration" similar in features to Figma that designers can use today? The comment I replied to, you said "this _is_ solvable" (present tense) instead of "this _can potentially be_ solvable" (hypothetical future UI collab software installed on internal corporate server that doesn't exist yet). That's why my interpretation of a present tense solution is something like Adobe XD files (".xd") saved on a shared corporate server... which reproduces the the chaos of multiple xlsx/docx files. EDIT reply to: >I'm talking about a solution that the creators of Figma could have engineered. I think you're losing track of your advice in this subthread because that statement about Figma really has nothing to do with the previous recommendation you made: >If you're a company, this is solvable by making the files live in a server the company controls.
- hsn915 4y ago
  > I guess I can't tell if you're talking hypothetically or giving a realistic alternative that designers can use today. I'm talking about a solution that the creators of Figma could have engineered.
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by hsn915 4y ago

542458 4y ago

While I somewhat agree, in my experience in practice the “just run it locally” approach results in software I need to use a clumsy and slow VPN to access, runs on servers that are either wildly over or underpowered, is constantly going down for maintenance, and never gets updated beyond essential security patches. The org I work for recently switched from on-prem Jira to cloud Jira, and the cloud version is a breath of fresh air by comparison. I’m sure some IT departments are better at this than others, but in my experience most of them aren’t great at it.

jasode 4y ago

>I'm talking just about a solution to the problem at hand: >Instead of storing files on servers controlled by a 3rd party company (and calling it "the cloud"), you store the files on servers that you control (and don't call it the cloud). I guess I can't tell if you're talking hypothetically or giving a realistic alternative that designers can use today. Is there a "local corporate web collaboration" similar in features to Figma that designers can use today? The comment I replied to, you said "this _is_ solvable" (present tense) instead of "this _can potentially be_ solvable" (hypothetical future UI collab software installed on internal corporate server that doesn't exist yet). That's why my interpretation of a present tense solution is something like Adobe XD files (".xd") saved on a shared corporate server... which reproduces the the chaos of multiple xlsx/docx files. EDIT reply to: >I'm talking about a solution that the creators of Figma could have engineered. I think you're losing track of your advice in this subthread because that statement about Figma really has nothing to do with the previous recommendation you made: >If you're a company, this is solvable by making the files live in a server the company controls.

hsn915 4y ago
> I guess I can't tell if you're talking hypothetically or giving a realistic alternative that designers can use today. I'm talking about a solution that the creators of Figma could have engineered.

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