Framer on X

Enthusiasm at this scale is mostly about what people built with it: a free template that comes with dark mode and Spanish localization, a hero photo chosen to feel candid rather than staged, a numbered process list that stacks cleanly on mobile, a testimonial block that keeps its breathing room. Small craft compliments make up the bulk — a serif headline running across an athlete photo, a cursor swappable from controls, a curved row of artwork cards on a laptop mockup. 38 people post in this register.

The AI agent and Claude MCP draw praise from 11 people: updating a site from a phone in traffic "genuinely feels like the future", telling Claude what to build and watching it land in Framer, and the MCP credited with catching errors so a site arrives closer to complete. 8 people praise the motion — variants switching smoothly, transitions they ask about. 4 people wonder whether it still matters, one asking flatly "is @framer dead?", a question others in the section push back on.

Complaints are scattered rather than concentrated. 3 people say templates only look right with curated copy and photos: a buyer's longer headlines break components and breakpoints, and a messy CMS structure means the prettiest hero just hides the mess. 3 people find selling templates hard — one shipped two free components and one paid, and the paid one got 475 views and no installs; another calls the market crowded. 3 describe picking a name at the start and finding it gone at publish, with one saying "losing it at publish is rough".

Smaller themes cover platform trust and breakage. 2 people describe a site taken down around a launch and support that stayed silent for hours before the site was restored, and one asks about Node.js vulnerabilities. Safari problems cost real signups for one builder when a dropdown would not open. People also report sections going missing and image tiles that don't crop to match, a mobile pass needed on pages that looked fine on canvas, and agent deletes that cannot be undone.

The two comparisons are single posts rather than a theme. One person asks how Framer's own MCP will hold up against Webflow's, and mentions template marketplaces in the same breath. The other says they used to spend 90% of their time in Framer and now spend it with Claude instead — the same post filed under doubts about whether Framer still matters.

Nothing in the section compares pricing, hosting, or output quality between the tools, and no one describes switching back. Worth reading as a signal about the questions being asked, not as a scoreboard.

The dominant question is technique, asked of pages people admire: is that motion Framer's built-in effects or coded by hand, was the design made in Claude with the Framer MCP or edited in Framer, how was the frosted glass achieved — one answer points to WebGL, colour opacity and a background blur. Others ask whether a glass nav refracts the live page or is baked into renders, whether a tap or only hover triggers an effect, how a drawer stays smooth as its content changes, and how it works on a phone.

A smaller set asks about effort: which details needed the most manual cleanup after migrating a coded site, what part of an animation took the most iteration, what needed tweaking to get an interaction feeling right. 3 people ask how skills behave — whether a skill stops the agent overwriting pages, where the "Copy skill" button lives, how to adapt accessibility and motion skills to an existing design system.

The clearest want is template quality control: 2 people back a checklist plugin for publishing, one saying every template they publish already goes through a long checklist, another arguing Framer should integrate it as "a major solution for slop on the marketplace".

The rest are single asks. One creator wants the ability to reserve a template name while it is still a draft, as the old Creator Dashboard allowed, so it cannot be taken before publishing. Someone is waiting for a remix feature. A designer asks whether a logo-based loader component will support a reduced-motion option. And one wants the Framer MCP to bring designing and building closer together — the same person who, in reception, praises the MCP.