Framer 3.0

After speaking with creators & experts, this is my honest take on the update.

The new community is genuinely good. The old one felt like a ghost town. Nobody was on there lol. The new UI is beautiful, especially inside the editor, and the fact that it's accessible directly from the desktop app makes it actually usable. Big W.

I also love the branching feature. If you're working on a big project with a team, this is the feature that changes how you collaborate. Make safe edits, isolate changes, and merge when you're ready. Finally.

Now let's talk about the marketplace drama. People are mad about removing the template review system. And honestly? I get it, but most of them are mad for the wrong reasons.

Yes, the marketplace might get flooded with low quality stuff at first, that's a valid concern. But Framer was clear: they're shifting from gatekeeping to moderating. You can report bad templates, and trash doesn't stay up forever. However, the real question is how fast can they act on it? and only time will tell.

But here's the thing nobody wants to say out loud: If you were relying on the Framer marketplace as your only sales channel, that's on you. You don't control it. You never did. Building a personal brand, creating content, and having your own store... that should have always been the priority.

Does that mean you won't get sales from the marketplace after the update? I don't think so. If you're active in the community and you're shipping quality work, you'll stand out. Because good things always stand out. Especially when everything around them is half-baked.

And I mean that literally. We're about to see a wave of templates with broken layouts, unresponsive designs, missing sections...that stuff is obvious. A clean, fully responsive, well-structured template is going to pop immediately.

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Framer 3.0

After speaking with creators & experts, this is my honest take on the update.

The new community is genuinely good. The old one felt like a ghost town. Nobody was on there lol. The new UI is beautiful, especially inside the editor, and the fact that it's accessible directly from the desktop app makes it actually usable. Big W.

I also love the branching feature. If you're working on a big project with a team, this is the feature that changes how you collaborate. Make safe edits, isolate changes, and merge when you're ready. Finally.

Now let's talk about the marketplace drama. People are mad about removing the template review system. And honestly? I get it, but most of them are mad for the wrong reasons.

Yes, the marketplace might get flooded with low quality stuff at first, that's a valid concern. But Framer was clear: they're shifting from gatekeeping to moderating. You can report bad templates, and trash doesn't stay up forever. However, the real question is how fast can they act on it? and only time will tell.

But here's the thing nobody wants to say out loud: If you were relying on the Framer marketplace as your only sales channel, that's on you. You don't control it. You never did. Building a personal brand, creating content, and having your own store... that should have always been the priority.

Does that mean you won't get sales from the marketplace after the update? I don't think so. If you're active in the community and you're shipping quality work, you'll stand out. Because good things always stand out. Especially when everything around them is half-baked.

And I mean that literally. We're about to see a wave of templates with broken layouts, unresponsive designs, missing sections...that stuff is obvious. A clean, fully responsive, well-structured template is going to pop immediately.

(1/2)