I used to be a seller on this platform. (I sold Photoshop plugins)
Now I have returned to upload an outdated ZXP plugin to an updated UXP plugin.
And this has been the absolute worst experience I have ever had on the internet in all my life.
I am unable to upload or simply update my existing ZXP to a UXP plugin.
I have to delete my old listing and create a new listing...
The old listing allows me to upload up to 300 megabytes,
however the new listing only allows up to 50 megabytes.
FIFTY MEGABYTES?! What are we supposed to do with that?
This whole website feels like a bureaucratic nightmare. It's impossible to find the actual link to get to the developer space. I had to ask chatGPT to find out how to return to my long forgotten profile. Everything seems abandoned and forgotten, and you have to run through hoops over hoops over hoops in order to get anywhere. It feels like the bureaucrats from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where forms have to be signed in triplicate and sent off to an actual human reviewer who is going to review your plugin while marketplaces like Creative Market have been running loops around Adobe.
I'm not even trying to say how terrible it is to code UXP plugins. And although the spectrum documentation is decent enough, the tools to actually create a plugin are scarce and documentation is long-winded. You really have to be a programmer in order to create something. And in the end, if you manage to go through all this hurdle, and you try to upload your finely polished, refined product onto the exchange, you are greeted with such a headache and impossibility that you just give up.
Photoshop is supposed to be a platform that allows for infinite possibilities. And us, the designers are the ones who make those possibilities happen. We are creative people who create and we want to share our creations. But the only tools for our disposals are cavemen-like actions. That is what we can do without touching code. And that is what is being sold on marketplaces. Outdated, script-based, text-forward, nerd-loving buttons, without even the possibility to have an icon on top of them. I cannot create an action that imports a PSD. I cannot create anything in Photoshop that gives any level of automation without being a programmer. So, this is insane.
Photoshop is not designed forward. It is nerdy tools based approach. If it went one small step backwards, it would be a command prompt interface like DOS.
Open the app. Click a button and have your result ready.
That is what Adobe could have done if it made it easy for the artists to create their own plugins with a drag and drop interface... Funny enough, they were heading in the right direction, in CS4 with Adobe Configurator it was a step in the right direction... and now? Now you have to be developer, and that is THE ONLY WAY!!!!! Terrible!
Adobe, You have lost it! It could have been awesome! where all artists can come and share their creations, but now you are putting everyone back to square one by limitng the possabilities of artists and creating a monopoly for yourself without utilising your own space.
What we have is a giant who is constantly raising the prices for the subscription, making it impossible to cancel, ignoring the basic requests of users, completely abandoning their shop for expansion, and relying solely on their big name. Well, AI is here to make this giant crumble.
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