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Web5 is here. Goodbye Web3? TBD.

<a href="https://www.designernews.co/stories/94171-im-not-happy-with-sketch">Designer News Feed</a> | Hey guys, 
Before my rant, Tom Reinert come up with a clever trick to make your protos act more &#8216;native&#8217;-ish. 
https://www.designernews.co/stories/94154-concept-nested-prototypes-in-sketch 
But the thing is such basic thing should be a native action instead of a workaround. And lately, I&#8217;m REALLY unhappy with sketch. I&#8217;ve been using it since from the &#8216;grey&#8217; diamond version (2.3 or something) It&#8217;s constantly crashing, acting seriously weird. I&#8217;m aware that it&#8217;s much better than Adobe and focused on UI, plugins blah blah. 
I admit sketch is a life saver. But I feel like Bohemian coding digging their own grave. For the sake of realism, let&#8217;s just take off pink optimistic dribbble glasses and stop praising for a second. (and I hope bohemian coding actually cares about their users and listens to them) 
If it wasn&#8217;t affecting my workload, I wouldn&#8217;t bother creating this thread. And to be honest, every update it&#8217;s a big letdown since they&#8217;ve changed their pricing model. And to be honest, I feel like I&#8217;m overpaying for a beta tool. 
Anyway, I&#8217;ll try to point out the stuff that I&#8217;m disappointed. So basically this is both an open letter to bohemian coding and a dialogue with fellow DN users. 
**Performance** 
There&#8217;s no performance. I&#8217;m trying to be polite as I could on this one. It&#8217;s shit. Even I have the highest specced MacBook money can buy, the program works terribly. Even dragging a grey ugly square on an empty file while no program is running is laggy. No, it&#8217;s not my computer. Even figma (with tons of other tabs running at bg) runs much smoother. I don&#8217;t believe &#8220;performance imporvement&#8221; notes on updates real anymore. They maybe just put there to make the list look longer. 
**Colour Management** 
Anything with colour is terrible on sketch and the update for that was a joke. Your eye dropper tool shouldn&#8217;t depend on your MONITOR&#8217;s colour profile&#8230; I mean wtf? Yeah, I&#8217;m sure you weren&#8217;t aware of that. Open a jpg with finder. Pick a colour with eyedropper. Move the jpg to another monitor and pick the colour from there. Even the hex code changes. (I&#8217;ve tried this on dell, LG and samsung none of them were 4k. But on 4k dell ultrasharp it works fine. but still&#8230;) 
**Colour Tool** 
You definitely redesign/rework your colour tool. Even thinking about your colour picker window makes me want to cry. It&#8217;s a design application, not a presentation tool. There should be a dedicated space for colour and it should be much more complicated than just tiny squares that you can access their hex IF you select them. 
**Gradients** 
Well, I don&#8217;t gradient in sketch IF it&#8217;s going to be a huge one with transparency (and if it&#8217;s going to be subtle one) Bandings everywhere. 
**Updates** 
This is the first application that I don&#8217;t want to update immediately. You&#8217;re releasing a beta version and charging yearly and I just can&#8217;t believe that you can&#8217;t test your applications before release. So basically, it&#8217;s a thing to not to update if there&#8217;s a new update released. That should be the opposite you know. It&#8217;s a bloody update&#8230; 
**Unreliability** 
Let me give a fresh example. Today, I copied a basic dropdown symbol. And switched to another file which had the exact same artboard size, contents etc. without the symbol i&#8217;ve copied. When I pasted it, sketch placed it somewhere random. Selecting an artboard or zooming in and pasting is a solution for randomness but I just wanted to challenge the app and kept pasting the same dropdown without touching anything. Every single paste was random. There&#8217;s no pattern either. The app throwing away at random locations within the viewport. I know this is a rare case but still, I can have this bug a couple of times every month. 
**Artboards** 
Technically they&#8217;re just visible groups. I find it pretty awkward. I mean I shouldn&#8217;t be able to &#8216;delete&#8217; an artboard by ungrouping it. I can work inside a white square instead if I&#8217;d want to have such thing. Can also add some drop shadow to that box if I feel fanct lol 
**Smart Guides** 
With every new feature introduced to sketch, guides are suffering. Those were huge time savers when they were first introduced but now they&#8217;re suffering between symbols and all other new stuff. Also, even though disabling smart guides, why do they still keep working? There are a couple of times I had to do some fine tunings and boost performance but even though they&#8217;re &#8216;disabled&#8217; they still keep working at the background and keep snapping. So hiding them is not actually hides smart guides. It&#8217;s a toggle that tricks user that they&#8217;re disabled. 
**Prototype** 
We already had marvel (and sadly invision) why do you need to bloat the app? Maybe you should have picked marvel to work with in the first place instead of a typical marketing-fueled American company. Tbh I&#8217;m not surprised that they&#8217;re trying to release their own version of sketch. And sadly, most of the companies are going to switch to them in a few yrs UNLESS you come up with a bright new idea. Maybe a web-based sketch? Oh, wait, sketch was just keynote on steroids. 
**Community** 
Create a community dammit. Just open up a forum and take some responsibility to listen to the actual problems and feature requests of your users. I never see your team getting involved anywhere. There&#8217;s figma, marvel, atomic and they&#8217;re literally even on DN. It&#8217;s a great feeling giving them immediate feedback DIRECTLY. Heck, even Adobe is on DN. But where are you? Seriously, you&#8217;re not Google you can&#8217;t just ignore your users. And also pls stop replying emails with such robotic tones. I knew that I could share a couple of pints with you after work. You should be here with your users. 
Sorry for the wall of text but I needed to get these off my chest for a long time.

I’m not happy with Sketch

I’m not happy with Sketch

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