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Figma beta features almost ruined my Monday morning deadline
Last Thursday I was experimenting with the new variables feature in Figma and accidentally swapped all my text layers to a broken font style without realizing it. I spent 3 hours Friday morning hunting down misaligned buttons and weird padding before a coworker pointed out the variable was overriding everything. Has anyone else had beta features mess up their files out of nowhere?
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wren30125d ago
Three hours? I would have been losing it in a whole different way after that much wasted time. The fact that a coworker caught it instead of you finding it yourself is brutal. I bet that variable is sitting in a dark corner of your file right now just waiting to strike again.
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the_lee24d agoMost Upvoted
Oh man, actually I think you might have misread the original post a bit. They said the coworker noticed the bug was missing something, not that they found the actual mistake. It's still brutal either way, but there's a difference between someone spotting your typo versus you figuring it out yourself after three hours. I've been there where you're staring at the same lines over and over and your brain just refuses to see what's right in front of you. That variable probably learned some ninja moves during those three hours, I swear they can hear me coming now and hide even better.
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