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June 19, 2025
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Mixamo Is Not “End of Life” — It’s Broken, and Fixable

  • June 19, 2025
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Hi Adobe Team and fellow Mixamo users,

After extensive testing, observation, and discussion, I’ve reached a clear conclusion:

Mixamo is not experiencing “end of life” behavior.
It’s experiencing a backend authentication failure — and it’s completely fixable.


🚨 The Real Problem:

On June 16, 2025 — almost exactly 10 years and 2 weeks after Adobe acquired Mixamo — key functionality broke:

Meanwhile:

  • ✅ The Mixamo frontend still works

  • ✅ Animations and characters load and display in-browser

  • ✅ Session states fail only when authentication is required


🔎 My Investigation:

I’m not part of Adobe. I’m just someone who believes if something’s broken, someone should figure it out. So I did.

  • The “Accounts” link no longer exists — Adobe’s login system now uses https://account.adobe.com (no "s").

  • The SSL certificates were quietly renewed for the frontend, but the backend likely had a token or cert expire — possibly tied to the original 2015 acquisition handshake.

  • The platform is likely pointing to outdated OAuth or API endpoints that no longer exist.

This is not a fatal system issue. It’s a dead link, expired token, or disconnected identity service.
That’s a 5-minute fix for someone with backend access.


🤯 If Adobe Lost Access?

If Mixamo’s authentication layer was hardcoded into a legacy system — and the admin keys or credentials were lost — that would explain why nothing has been done.
It’s not “end of life” — it’s “we don’t know how to get in.”


 I’m confident in saying:

If I were given read-only access to Mixamo’s backend, logs, or auth bridge,
I could identify the specific failure point.
Possibly even fix it — without documentation — because the symptoms are clear.

This isn’t guesswork. It’s logic, proven by behavior, timing, and system response.


 But if Adobe really is “retiring” Mixamo:

Then doing so silently — by letting it break without warning, backup, or replacement — is:

  • Unprofessional

  • Harmful to students, devs, and professionals

  • And a slap in the face to the community that’s kept this tool alive for 10 years

If a service must end, users deserve:

  • A warning

  • A migration plan

  • And the chance to preserve or export their work


 Please:

Adobe, don’t gaslight us by calling this “end of life” if it’s really a technical failure.
Don’t abandon a tool silently that thousands still rely on — just because the internal wiring got lost or outdated.

If you can’t fix it, say so.
But if you can — and just haven’t — this community deserves better.

Thank you.

1 reply

Inspiring
June 19, 2025

I don't see a way to delete or edit a post..  so please ignore this one.  I am reposting because Adobe doesn't even know how to carry over the images of the Emojis I have used.   The next post will have these emojis deleted.