They seem to update very frequently; I don't know if it still crashes now — I'm ...

zonghao · 2025-11-30T09:41:17 1764495677

I self-hosted Penpot, and during use I also encountered crashes — but it was my browser that crashed. I’m not sure what caused it (because I was forced to close the page).

v3ss0n · 2025-11-27T06:05:00 1764223500

What i tested happned 5 months ago. if the issue exist 1 month ago too it is the same problem.

The problem lies with the whole thing is XML and SVG unlike Figma's Canvas/WebASM . The whole thing is unable to scale.

IseardMi · 2025-11-27T09:57:55 1764237475

They are actually working on a new canvas-based rendering engine in order to get away from using the DOM so that should help performance quite a bit.

https://community.penpot.app/t/its-time-for-penpot-to-almost...

v3ss0n · 2025-11-28T08:50:08 1764319808

that gonna be huge effort , looking forward to that.