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[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They’ve been completely dropping the ball for years. I used to donate regularly but have completely given up on this project. It’s a farce at this point.

Liberapay shows the number of donors has almost doubled in the last few months (look at "view income history"), so i hope it is an indication that they made good changes to the project management and the future will be better.

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it because they're improving, or is it because Adobe keeps pissing people off and donating to GIMP is cheaper than a Photoshop sub?

I don't actually have any opinion on gimp one way or another, it does what I need it to do.

[–] squeakycat@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 3 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=dJBEAZFP0aA

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] squeakycat@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That's good to hear, and I really would love for things to get sorted out. Gimp 3.x has many improvements for sure but there's a long way to go and actually releasing these improvements is necessary...

If gimp can become another blender that would be incredible.