By the way, PhotoSuite is just a stolen copy of my project www.photopea.com , which I have been working on for 8 hours a day for the past ... 14 years? :D
It was discussed here on HN yesterday and then, the anonymous person behind it removed the "Issues" section completely from their Github
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972730
https://replayweb.page/?source=https://archive.org/cors/gith...
Never got to try out PhotoSuite, looks like it really was just ripping-off your code, the repo owner already deleted it, and now it forks PhotoCraft.
I have a huge respect for your work on Photopea, been using it constantly since the time I completely moved to Linux a year ago. It has the best Photoshop parity yet to find! Would you ever consider to: 1. Open sourcing your work (partially or completely) under some kind of a permissive/copyleft license. 2. Rewriting some parts of the website that require performance as WASM targets. 3. Using any modern JS frameworks, e.g. Svelte.
Hey, thanks for photopea. I use it frequently.
Can you settle an argument, perchance? Is it pronounced "Photo-P" or "Photo-pia" (as in "utopia")?
Hey, huge fan and user of photopea. You are not far behind the VLC guy, u/jbk in my personal world view :)
If I may ask, if you were to do this all over again in 2024 - 2026, would you choose SSR?
Dumb q from someone who has done mostly native dev for…19 years, whoa.
Wouldn’t that screw up his whole thing? Because now you need infra to render to free users?
OK, so.. I get that, but is that model dead? Aside from marketing, is there any way to protect a true SPA from "Hey Claude, clean room this in 2026" - and then apply better marketing - without even knowing anything about code?
As another example, ScreenRun is amazing as a true one-time pay, client-side app. I have loved that thing. Also, such a cool model to have no server costs. But are those days now over?
Meanwhile, photopea only works view a website for normies. It is ad-supported, so given all the work put in, and updates, and the fact that it is web severed...
I swear I thought my question was not that dumb, or is it? You tell me.
yeah it would. an SPA is exactly what you'd want for a "webapp" like this, where you want everything loaded upfront so that you're mostly interacting with stuff offline. it's also very cache friendly so, really no benefit to using SSR.
SSR only really makes sense when you either want to optimize for fast page loads, or do PHP-style conditional rendering or whatever
Photopea is a great tool. I am sorry about the ripoff by PhotoSuite.
I remember using your tool a lot for years but in the past year or so the ads have made it unusable. It feels more like browsing ign.com with no adblock or something. Just brutally slow and intrusive visually speaking.