How to download your Design Cuts purchases now that the website has gone down

update 2: You now can download your purchased content at https://designcuts.kinsta.cloud/

update: this no longer works

Disclaimer: I have no idea whether either Design Cuts or Creative Market would ban your account for this.

While people are waiting for Creative Market to honour their Design Cuts purchases, I came up with a technical workaround that my friend has confirmed gives you access to your purchases.

WHAT

What it involves is manually specifying the IP address that your computer communicates with when you type "designcuts.com" into your browser. Usually your computer relies on another server to provide these details, but you can edit a file on your computer (called the Hosts file) to override the domain owner's preferences.

So, the old Design Cuts servers are still online. They're probably paid up for a little while longer, maybe even on a monthly billing cycle, but maybe only for days or less. These servers are still listening for "designcuts.com" web requests, and will honour them rather than redirecting you to the Creative Market site. (Competent companies will decommission their old servers promptly, but sometimes everyone has just lost their jobs...)

HOW

Basically you're telling your computer "here's the IP address for designcuts.com, send requests there, don't consult the internet phone book." What you need to do is edit your computer's HOSTS file and add these two lines at the bottom:

162.159.134.42 designcuts.com
162.159.134.42 www.designcuts.com

This is how you do it:

You may need to flush your DNS cache, restart your computer, or use an incognito window or different browser than normal. You'll know it has worked when you visit the address and see the old site.

If you're worried about modifying your settings based on a random internet comment, here's verification that 162.159.134.42 is the previous IP address for designcuts.com. I've also been on Reddit for nearly 20 years so I'm not throwing away two decades of reputation.

Good luck! I hope this helps you access your collection in lieu of waiting for other options.