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Andy05

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    Andy05 reacted to jackamus in Canva   
    Agreed and once you know, you can walk if you want to.
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    Andy05 reacted to LondonSquirrel in Canva   
    And what has changed? Your Affinity apps still do the same thing today as they did last week. 
    There seem to be a lot of people with crystal balls in this forum, predicting the future. They cast the runes, they consulted the Oracle, felt it in their bones, and checked their horoscopes. It's about as accurate as the BBC weather forecast.
    Why not just wait and see what actually comes down the line?
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    Andy05 reacted to PaulEC in offline activation for V2?   
    It must be said that the old Plus/Legacy Serif software was sold as a "lifetime" licence (not subscription), but Serif washed their hands of those apps several years ago. Some do still continue to work, but others are problematical. Serif will no longer help with any support, either supplying product codes for people who have lost them, nor will they help with any technical questions. I can see that  this could well be the same case with the Affinity software in a few years. I really hope that Serif will provide some means of off line activation, in the event of the current versions of the apps being replaced with newer versions (under the Canva banner,) for people needing to reinstall their current versions. I suspect, that like Adobe, Canva will not be interested in maintaining online activation systems in perpetuity.
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    Andy05 reacted to nitro912gr in offline activation for V2?   
    sure but this is what probably adobe told people who had CS3 too and now they can only use cracked versions of software they got because it required online activation.
    At least they provided for CS2 users.
    I wish affinity and it's servers are around more than my lifetime but better safe than sorry, right? Sorry, not want to be mean to the staff or anyone but I really don't trust big corporations, and canva is a big corporation.
     
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    Andy05 got a reaction from mimolette in Questions on Canva acquiring Affinity   
    I was just about posting pretty similar questions. And I share your thoughts (and worries?) about switching to a subscription based model.
    Taken from the press release, "affordable" can be both. It's not answering the question about the licence model, unfortunately.
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    Andy05 reacted to R C-R in Canva   
    I think they have made it more than clear enough that they will not be abandoning the perpetual licence model for the Affinity apps for the foreseeable future, so no, I do not see any problem with continuing to use & support the Affinity apps. Only if they ever renege on that pledge will I have any reason not to trust them.
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    Andy05 reacted to R C-R in Canva   
    The sky is falling!! The sky is falling!! The sky is falling!! 
    Oh wait. No, it's not. There is as yet no good reason to believe we are being forced into a subscription model for the Affinity apps, certainly not one good enough for all the hysteria this topic & others have generated.
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    Andy05 reacted to LondonSquirrel in Canva   
    Their collaboration tools would be very useful for Affinity. Sharing files as we sometimes do by email, USB drives, etc, is not very practical when it involves more than 2 people.
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    Andy05 reacted to Bryan Rieger in Canva   
    Can we please stop being so condescending and dismissive of others. I'm not a fan of Canva, but I know many individuals, business, non-profit orgs, and large brands who absolutely love it, as it enables them to create effective communications/media without having to hire (and wait for) a professional, which they often can't afford anyway. As for large brands, it enables their marketing departments to move at pace assembling their own brand assets and scheduling the publishing of social media campaigns in a much faster, and more coordinated manner than was available to them before.
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    Andy05 reacted to Altima Neo in Canva   
    I don't have a need post on the forum regularly. This isn't exactly a high traffic social media destination. So what do you expect?

    But Im just a hobbist artist. If you see my first post I was pretty critical about the situation. I'm still cautious.
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    Andy05 reacted to LondonSquirrel in Canva   
    And Sony Music, and Gucci, and other "moms". How condescending.
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    Andy05 reacted to DarkClown in Canva   
    OK, Ash, that' a fair statement! I still don't trust company promises - but it's all I can ask for for now.

    I was pretty upset about the humiliating marketing bullshit you send out yesterday. Seeing that this merger ends up in a pretty sprawling marketing desaster, you either completely misjudged the close relationship you(Affinity) build up with your customers during the many years of development and the effect of selling the company to a faceless nobody with enough money. Of course cutomers feel betrayed. The father just told his children that "familiy" is over and they all get sold to an orphanage home. Promising them that they still will get fed. Great news.

    Yes I'm still scared I might loose the product I spend hundrets and hundrets of hours on to report bugs and participate in plenty discussion on improvement and ideas.I'm scared the supportive community might disappear. I'm scared canva will not keep their promises. (I do remember as well you saying that Affinity will not be sold!) But seeing there's not much I can do about it I'll wait and see.
    Either way it will be hard for canva to (re-)gain trust of the customers. This merger marketingwise coud have been prepared a lot better!
    Cheers, Timo
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    Andy05 reacted to MikeTO in Canva   
    The pledge to offer Affinity free to schools and non-profits is amazing. It will enable so many kids to learn with Affinity, and they will go on to use Affinity in their professional careers. This is something that would have been hard for a small company to offer but which the acquisition enabled. Bravo.
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    Andy05 reacted to Bryan Rieger in Canva   
    Thank you @Ash for this commitment, both from Affinity and Canva - although I do wish this was released yesterday along with the acquisition announcement as it could have stemmed 20 odd pages of discussion, speculation, and anger.
    I'd 'thank you' in the reactions, but sadly I have no more to give today (the forum won't let me).
    Very happy to read this, and really looking forward to ePub (hopefully both fixed and reflowable) export!
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    Andy05 reacted to GenewalDesign in Canva   
    It's okay @Ash, you don't have to precise and justify everything, you're already guilty for some folks here.
    No matter what you say, they'll say the opposite.
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    Andy05 reacted to Ash in Canva   
    To followup on some of my comments yesterday, we are today enshrining our commitment to the Affinity community in 4 pledges made by the Affinity and Canva teams.
    You can read about them here.

    We do truly believe the coming together of Affinity and Canva is only going to be a good thing for our customers, staff and the development of our apps. We very much hope you will all continue to be with us on this journey.
    All the best,
    Ash


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    Andy05 reacted to LondonSquirrel in Canva   
    Why? The software works as it is. As has been mentioned numerous times in these forums, we buy licences for the software as it is and not for features which may be coming at some unknown point along the road. If the apps do what I want now, why do I need an alternative? The apps have never done everything I want, but that is no reason to ditch them for alternatives which also have their own limitations.
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    Andy05 reacted to Pseudolus in Canva   
    "Nobody wants to wake up to the news I woke up to this morning, nobody."
    Anyway, like many of you, I'm feeling very uncertain about the future of Affinity's viability. But I'd like to avoid catastrophizing by saying that Affintiy will go full-subscription in the future. We cannot possibly know that. Even Microsoft still offers a one-time purchase for its core Office apps, and there's no reason that Canva/Serif couldn't offer something similar. Maybe a subscription add-on for cloud-based storage and AI functionality.
    EDIT: What did I say? 👏
    The thing that gives me the greatest pause here is that selling to Canva is antithetical to what this community stands for and why we use Affinity, a bit like a taxi service being purchased by Uber. Serif was always able to offer a professional suite of apps for start-ups, independent artists, hobbyists, and professionals in a way that Adobe could not. It filled a major gap in the market, as Adobe is willfully anti-customer because they know they were the only game in town and they know that the sales of CS are not what keeps their company afloat. Serif put the customer in the driver's seat and earned its small-but-mighty community through word of mouth, transparency, and good faith.
    You cannot bottle that.
    Canva's goal, on the other hand, is to make the market even tougher for these same groups of people by essentially cutting the designer out, even going so far as to entirely replace us with machine learning. These two communities are oil and water, and I don't see how this merger can be beneficial to us, in this comparison, the "little guy."
    It feels a bit like our divorced dad is taking our puppy and giving it to his new family.
    I wish people were being kinder to Ash, as this community has been pretty nasty to him since V2 came out, and it's never sat right with me.
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    Andy05 reacted to loukash in Canva   
    Until this I found your contributions interesting.
    Now welcome to my ignore list.
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    Andy05 reacted to nezumi in Canva   
    That is officially the most absurd post I have read this week. And its barely Wednesday. But no way I will read something more ludicrous this week or month even
    Wait. I know! Lets buy a small island and we make our own country with "kooky mass Democracy" while we are at it. 
    How?
    India of course.
    Considering your own ideas... yeah that seems to be safer choice. Even with hallucinations.
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    Andy05 reacted to Bit Disappointed in Canva   
    Well, I've said what I have to say, and I'm waiting to see what actually happens. But the situation is not satisfactory as a professional customer who uses Designer for quite heavy products. I can't wait to see if v2 is the last version before radical changes to the programs, or if they disappear. Subscription doesn't bother me, that's fine, but I can't tolerate the other ridiculous uncertainty as a serious user. I must secure myself and my future NOW, and I know where I'll do that. I can't wait for that bullshit game.
    But I want to take this opportunity to thank the many, many inputs from customers I was unaware of until now. This forum has been too dominated by a small circle of overly optimistic and unrealistic users who have overshadowed everyone else's needs and perceptions, and who possibly also gave Serif an unrealistically optimistic view of where they stand, what the products can do, and what their options are, and especially how far customers will follow them. The market is ruthless, and 3 million customers isn't as much as it sounds. They will quickly establish themselves elsewhere.
    For my part, I reached some sort of nausea climax with the sentence, that we are part of the revolution now. After the usual generic business bullshit statement. Look at yourselves in the mirror. Do you see a spineless sheep? If not, search the market NOW for alternatives. Serif's apparently very cheap communication employee who wrote that, has a complete lack of basic knowledge, and not least about the fact that revolutions today are a painful chaos where major powers cross swords, and millions flee the misery. The common man almost always loses everything.
    I wish all of you, who have stepped out of the shadows and into the debate here, all the best, and remember that there's nothing so bad that it isn't good for something. It's comforting to be optimistic, but it's a solid survival strategy to take active steps yourself and secure your own interests. Remember, you are creative, which is the magical quality that fuels imagination with energy, and you will surely come up with something. And then, the situation might not turn out as bad as we are waiting to clarify now. But don't bet on it.
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    Andy05 reacted to LondonSquirrel in Canva   
    I've never met an astronaut, but I know they exist.
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    Andy05 reacted to Comrade Haz in Questions on Canva acquiring Affinity   
    Browser based is not the future of anything, especially graphics. So so so clunky.
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    Andy05 got a reaction from Another Shirt in Canva?!????!   
    Even worse: once you cancel the subscription, you usually lose access to the apps' native file formats. Programs and apps can get replaced with a little bit of effort. But if a client asks you to modify some designs done with an app you no longer have access to, it's becoming a tricky endevour.
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    Andy05 reacted to Patrick Connor in Canva   
    please don't. Your presence, as with many expressing their opinions here, is valued
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