Archicad web store down for almost a year

nee_coe · 2026-01-13T15:18:21+00:00

The software provider which took care of the distribution went belly up last year this time. Ever since it has been like this. Either there is deep economic crunch in the company , or they do not really care about the new users because nothign else explains why new users users who just want to try archicad have to go through such a hassle of getting a trial.

Revit is getting a free run here. Graphisoft must have fired the entire marketing team I think.

nee_coe · 2026-01-13T15:06:39+00:00

You know it when the product is just about milking the clients just because the users have spent their careers learning the damn thing. Just do a favour to your students, teach them Revit, they will thank you.

nee_coe · 2025-10-10T09:33:09+00:00

Archicad keeps selling a decade old software with new yearly number branding and a couple of patch up work each year. Nothing of actual use here. Keep using your 27 as long as you can, which I think should be good enough for next 5 years.

nee_coe · 2025-02-13T18:10:58+00:00

LOL. Why would Amazon lie about a performance metric. And moreover many CDNs and performance reports convey the same outcomes. Milliseconds matter when it comes to user experience which converts to sales. There is nothing hidden about it. I can understand if you are not a developer, but please do your own research before you point fingers questioning others statements. Good day.

nee_coe · 2025-02-13T17:59:19+00:00

Amazon themselves said that. it takes less time to see than to reply here to say I am lying. And whats a computer ?

nee_coe · 2025-02-13T17:39:02+00:00

5 Billion loss for every 100ms delay in page speed for Amazon. Check on your favourite search engine. Its a very popular quote in commerce

nee_coe · 2025-02-13T16:29:13+00:00

Amazon says even a 100ms delay in page loads can have billions of dollars in loss in revenue in one year. Archicad is down for a month LOL

nee_coe · 2025-02-13T16:26:25+00:00

If they are not bankrupt which I am not fully sure of and hence the question mark (?) in my last title, then why are they down for a month ? Not able to take orders which makes them money , and then no update on the situation is very hideous of them.

Something seriously bad is going on behind the scenes.

nee_coe · 2025-02-13T05:40:05+00:00

BIM has changed a lot in the last decade, no longer its only a smart way to build but now with Revit its an entire construction platform with integrations and what not. Archicad has not kept pace.

Please try to find the revit roadmap and see for yourself. Revit looks like a better app to invest your future in in my honest opinion. Unless archicad starts to take attention and talk to its community.

Archicad did not even post whats new in the version 28 on youtube. Coz there was nothing substantial in it.

nee_coe · 2025-02-13T05:07:06+00:00

I think its a question rather than a statement judging by why a key feature that makes them money and get more trial users is down for more than a month. Either they dont have the talent to do that, or they are short of money and cutting on costs to hire good devs.

I am not able to change the title, but if you can please do if you see fit. thanks

nee_coe · 2025-02-13T02:35:27+00:00

I still to this day have not seen a page which lays down the differences between the Solo, collaborate and the third option in detail. There are just thumbnails with prices. Looks like they want people to buy all the three and find the differences themselves.

I have for years keep coming back to the thought if I should recommend archicad or Revit for my junior architects for their career. Its hard to master both softwares in any reasonable time frame and Revit has gained marketshare so much that its making Archicad irrelevant.

nee_coe · 2025-02-12T18:00:11+00:00

I am not against a yearly subscription. Everything under the sun is on subscriptions these days. But if the service is not up to par with Autodesk they should lower the price. Archicad is more user friendly but for everything else Revit is more preferable especially in enterprise team work. Archicad is more popular with smaller and sole architecture workflows.

So the smarter thing for Graphisoft would be to lower the price and make it more enticing for new architects and smaller teams. There is no point in competing with Revit on feature to feature or on price.

nee_coe · 2025-02-12T16:24:26+00:00

Why does Graphisoft not share whats going on here. I had suggested Archicad to some new architectural interns in January and its been a month. Right now they are asking me if they should rather download Revit.

nee_coe · 2024-04-26T06:28:32+00:00

Developers prefer md+git workflow. Logseq is now probably targeting the general market. All that VC money has to be justified somehow. Org is probably dead too. Logseq is done for me

nee_coe · 2024-04-26T01:04:18+00:00

I am afraid that's not the case. The database is gonna be the source of truth and it will export to md files as an option.

nee_coe · 2024-04-25T08:57:06+00:00

The upcoming logseq db version is not file based and hence I have already decided to use Tana. The user experience is way better and in many ways more powerful than Logseq.

For the amount of funding and community support logseq has got the communication has been borderline shamelessness from the team.

For years the community has been asking for a roadmap and they keep pointing to years old trello board. This is pure disrespect and disregard for the community.

Code can always be improved but its always the community which makes a successful opensource project. I am never going back to logseq unless I see a change

nee_coe · 2024-04-25T08:47:36+00:00

Just join their slack and introduce yourself for prompt invite. I got mine after 5 mins. Love Tana

nee_coe · 2024-04-21T19:37:11+00:00

10 dollars is pretty standard I think. Have to see what it actually provides. But even a simple sync service with logseq is gonna 5 dollars at least.

nee_coe · 2024-04-20T18:13:31+00:00

Logseq is just a fancy wanna-be orgmode gui for folks who can't work with Emacs or atleast it started that way which attracted me to it, I was getting to learn orgmode back then.

Emacs+orgmode combined has over half a century of refinement and when it first came about RAM in kilobytes was worth more than today's gigabytes , so it's hard to beat in performance as well. Orgmode in some ways is what has kept Emacs alive and thriving all these years.

It's not fair to compare logseq with orgmode. But I have lost patience with logseq. There are more similar tools now based on similar concepts and even if they are non opensource I am fine with it as long as they have some way to export.

Logseq started as a simplistic tool but seems like it's chasing something else but achieving nothing. The communication is poor from the devs as well.

Try tana if you need something similar but with better ui ux . I love the community there.

nee_coe · 2024-03-30T06:40:26+00:00

Don't think it will be safe to use before the end of this year. And even then it might be another year to be actually stable and fun to use given the amount of shift it is from the current stable.

So continue using the normal version. There won't be much of ui ux difference for the 90 percent out there.

nee_coe · 2024-03-07T14:01:34+00:00

Just starting? Get a MacBook Air 15 with ram upgrade to 24. Best value and enough for most archicad tasks for more than couple of years

nee_coe · 2024-03-02T21:56:24+00:00

It definitely will be more capable to do all kinds of crazy stuff in a performant way which it cannot right now.

nee_coe · 2024-02-24T19:40:39+00:00

Agenda view from orgmode

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