<div dir="ltr">Kicad is *much* better than it used to be. I'm sorry to see EAGLE go. I've built things with that that have been around the far side of the moon. :-)</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 8:17 PM charlie <<a href="mailto:charlie@finitemonkeys.com">charlie@finitemonkeys.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">they did openly announce it was going to be killed off as a standalone product in 2023 when they planned to merge it into fusion. unfortunately the fusion integration is just bad, it looses the speed of working in standalone, but they don't want to hear about it.<div><br></div><div>pre 8 still works.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 26 May 2026 at 06:20, Brother Theo via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I got the notification by answering an email about a forum post I made. If it wasn't for that I'd be caught out in June.<div><br></div><div>So I migrated to KiCad. Turns out it's not as bad as I remember. I implemented a library and it looks like it will handle BOM creation better than Eagle did.</div><div><br></div><div>--timmers</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 8:18 AM Sean Ellis via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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I guess it's not such a bad thing we're being flooded with vibe-coded tools, ain't no-one paying a subscription for those....</div>
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<b>From:</b> Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy-bounces@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy-bounces@synth-diy.org</a>> on behalf of H.Sergio Alves via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 26 May 2026 2:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Richie Burnett <<a href="mailto:rburnett@richieburnett.co.uk" target="_blank">rburnett@richieburnett.co.uk</a>><br>
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<div style="direction:ltr">It’s kinda taking the piss now… most companies doing this… why not disable the authentication on the server and shut it down? Make so people can still use what they pay for! I truly hate subscriptions…</div>
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<div style="direction:ltr">On Tue, 26 May 2026 at 13:02, Richie Burnett <<a href="mailto:rburnett@richieburnett.co.uk" id="m_-5603009164108438153m_5120656285114378676m_-7745561797749768732OWA0e21ebc4-d234-f12f-bca4-18b5e4c00b98" target="_blank">rburnett@richieburnett.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div>4 months isn't much notice period to get things migrated to another<br>
platform!<br>
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Also I don't see why it would just stop running after June 2026 because it<br>
runs offline. I can understand that you might not be able to activate a new<br>
installation though.<br>
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From: Neil Johnson via Synth-diy<br>
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Looks like Eagle is toast...<br>
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Such a shame, it got a lot of folks into DIY board making.<br>
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Neil<br>
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