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Depends what you are doing but you can still copy between programs. Alternative is to export as a standardised format such as EPS or SVG. That way you can still work between both programs. 
 
Maybe I'm just odd but I often work between affinity designer (because in v1 the performance, brilliant snapping tools, grid setup, UI was great) and Adobe illustrator (for select tools like warping, blend tool, pattern, shape builder etc) and have to save as EPS or SVG frequently or copy over and rescale if the dimensions change.  

I'm also experiencing this issue with affinity designer 2. Never had this issue in v1. The lag isn't too bad but it get pretty tiresome after a while. Selecting objects, groups or layers seems to have a delay each time I click.

No. Long story short, I want some insight into what's about to happen imminently, such as: what are the plans for the 2.0.4 Betas? Some of this information is already in the forums, but hard to find. So I'm suggesting that they turn on the headlights so we can see a tiny bit of the road ahead, as opposed to a map of the road.
Plus it would also be interesting to learn something about the development process itself. 

I do that with Inkscape - Designer (but several of those features are now in Designer).

Depends what you are doing but you can still copy between programs. Alternative is to export as a standardised format such as EPS or SVG. That way you can still work between both programs. 
 
Maybe I'm just odd but I often work between affinity designer (because in v1 the performance, brilliant snapping tools, grid setup, UI was great) and Adobe illustrator (for select tools like warping, blend tool, pattern, shape builder etc) and have to save as EPS or SVG frequently or copy over and rescale if the dimensions change.  

Mike how dare you insult me by suggesting I might make such a novice mistake like that. I am incandecent with rage and will report you to the admins. It is very clearly buggy software!  Obviously so because the problem has now gone away....

Regards
Chris the Indignant.

PS if you need any shopping or laundary done, cars washed or children minded give me a call 🙂
It was indeed spaces.... on several  of the very many links and emails.
EDIT I just realsied I posted in the Designer section with a Publisher problem... IT has been one of those days 🙂

Are you using the STUDIO DRIVER as it works better than the GAMES READY DRIVER. Sometimes with the studio driver you can switch on OpenCL and speed up the workflow but try first with it disabled.
Also the Windows 22H2 update has to be done manually at the moment and that also speeds things up.
 
 

This portion reads clearer, imo, from the Layers panel. They grab attention in an appropriate way. Though somehow the icons read taller. That might be bothersome for some.
 

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Top toolbar is fine. The Persona icons are even fine, but they're not as easily recognizeable and might be subjective. I think just takes getting used to. They look more cohesive with each other though.

Main toolbar is the one that is less cohesive and has a lot going on. Most of the problems go away with monochromatic, but I prefer the color actually because there's more variance.

Contour & Corner Tool stand out like a sore thumb.

Hi. I was excited by v2.0 but I really don't like the new UI design. The flat design feels like a multiplatform wobbly app that the Adobe suite had become...
I felt like the v1.0 UI design felt more robust.
What do you think?

The new warping options in AD2 are great but doesn't work with bitmap images (no matter if single images, images in groups or converted images into curves).
Feature request: add image support for warp! 🙂

Just my 2¢ here. Affinity is charging very reasonable prices for their software, and the 40% off can be called the upgrade path for existing customers.
I'd rather pony up a modest amount every few years than get the painful news that an app I've spent years learning (or its developer) is going away. Been the recipient of that news more than once, and ugh, looking to never again be in that place. 

I am on the opposite spectrum and rather perplexed by some of the surprised responses I see about the paid upgrade path. Frankly, I would be shocked if Affinity were able to continue dominating Adobe CC simply by slinging books and art packs. 
I paid for copies of all Affinity apps nearly 7 years ago and was happy to purchase supplemental content to support them.
Like you, I refuse to pay for a subscription model on core workflow tools. The alternative to that (the norm of yesteryear) was pay-per-update. Remember how Adobe used to charge 499.00 every few years?
With Affinity, I think I paid maybe 150.00 for all 3 apps, but was happy to pay for them again for my new Mac when moving from my Windows machine because the cost was so affordable. Since I haven't been charged for an app update in 7 years, and ran out of ways to support Affinity in the shop due to purchasing all books and art packs, V2 was an instant buy.
And honestly 99.00 is a deal, yet again. And it's one time payment, with years of updates to come with new tool. New features like live meshwarping are likely only possible because of an entire engine rewrite. 
I do music production on the side as well and I can tell you that Logix Pro X is free because it's subsidized by the price of their computers, which stop receiving updates to the newest OS every few years - forcing users to upgrade. It surely isn't free. Also Logic rarely releases major updates with ground breaking features. Either way, every other DAW save FL studio charges at least 199 / year for point releases. 
iZotope (one of the most expensive luxury plugin companies) sells dozens of different products as single purchases and bundle for hundreds or even thousands of dollars with expensive semi-yearly releases. What was the cost of the latest Ozone 9 suite? 800 bucks? What was the upgrade path? 400? On something like a 2 year release cycle.
Here is Affinity with a 99.00 upgrade path for all core apps with a track record of several years of major upgrades. Since when did "own your software" mean lifetime updates?  
Anyways, I am delighted. Sorry you are not.
 

Software companies always charged for version upgrades. Remember Adobe before the subscription model? About every 2-3 years you had to purchase the next version. If you had CS2 you had to pay to get CS3 if you wanted the updates. On the Macromedia side I had just purchase FreeHand 7 then 8 came out soon after and it wasn't free but was offered at a discount. 

With all due respect, but your position and arguments are ridiculous. Every software upgrade offered by a commercial company comes with a price. You can now purchase the app(s) at a 40% discount and that's quite generous.

I am extremely disappointed to see that Affinity requires existing customers to purchase the V2 upgrade to the products they have already purchased. I have always been a fan of Affinity, but this seriously skews my affinity of the company.
I believe Affinity products are still great and offered at great prices. I love that Affinity hasn't bowed to the greed of more-money with subscription-only services such as the big graphic software companies that moved in that direction, which I believe was a strong reason behind the creation of Affinity, and is most definitely a big reason for it's success. BUT, the decision to make existing customers repurchase all of the products again to get V2 is an extremely poor one. I would suspect many customers will stick with V1 simply because they will not be manipulated to purchase the products again, not because they don't want them, but because they are angry with Affinity.
I do a lot of music production, and in the music industry there are many users who refuse to pay for subscription services. They want to own what they purchase, just like so many who have purchased Affinity products. But they prefer to purchase software from companies that don't  keep charging them for upgrades. My Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) of choice is Logic Pro X and I have never been charged for an upgrade; in fact, the community of Logic users looks forward with great anticipation and excitement to the new upgrades. This is what makes Logic users such huge fans of the software and the company—when the company rewards its customers with great upgrades at no additional cost; the company supports their customers. There are many third party companies that offer plug-ins for Logic, and some of these companies, such as Waves are getting a bad rap in the music community, because they require purchasing an upgrade license every few years in order to continue getting upgrades for the products they bought; they will lose many customers, but for those they keep, at least they are offered an incentive as a customer. Other companies such as iZotope treat their existing customers to deeply discounted loyalty offers for upgrades and newly released software and their customers are happy to pay a discounted fee to upgrade, and the company retains their admiration and respect. But Affinity, just insulted their entire customer base. Good luck with that.
Once, a huge advocate of Affinity, my admiration, respect, and excitement for Affinity and it's products has now plummeted. For those who think this is too harsh, please realize, this isn't about customers, like me, saving a buck—it's about Affinity wanting to show appreciation for the loyal customers who made them successful. I mourn the direction Affinity has chosen.
Sincerely

The Spiral Tool, well, how to make a spiral and the tool who made the gif lol!

So, is there any good workaround for this?
I have only found to use the Align tool... insert a new node anywhere on the segment, select the node plus the 2 neighbor nodes, go to Align tool and select both Space horizontally and vertically. Then the new node should get aligned to the midpoint of the segment. Good thing is that it also works when you want to equally distribute multiple points on the segment.

But why only the midpoint of a segment? What if I want to snap to thirds of a segment? Or divide a segment into fifths.
An Add Nodes Per Segment command would enable one to create snap candidates at any fractional increment along a segment.
JET

If you are seeing purple/magenta outlines left after deselecting objects then you're not seeing a bug, but a feature called Snapping Candidates.

By default Affinity will let you snap to the last 6 previously selected objects. These are called 'Snapping Candidates' - to help you better identify which these last 6 objects are is an option called 'Show snapping candidates'. When this is enabled you will get a purple/magenta outline on those objects - this is likely what you are seeing. Simply disable this to remove the outline.

Please see the Snapping help topic for more information on the snapping features:
https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/DesignAids/snapping.html

I know seeing antialias gap between attached objects on editing screen is normal.
But at least I would like you to improve gap problem on export with raster format such as PNG/JPG.
(Without aligning to pixel grid, aligning to pixel grid won't work for tile pattern design/symbol sometimes)

Adobe IIlustrator has no gap on both editing screen and exported raster file.
What kind of magic they have?
 
 

@APW-Design
Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums  and thank you for your kind words.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer, version 1.9.0
Changes in this Build
A highlights explanation can be found here: 5 things you should know about Affinity Designer 1.9
The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for Windows 1.9.0 (over the last release Affinity Designer for Windows 1.8.5) are as follows:
New Features:
Powerful contour tool to create abstract objects or increase the width of single open curves (learn more) Select Same to efficiently match attributes such as fill colour, stroke colour, stroke weight, transparency, blend mode or shape type (learn more) Select Object to select all objects of a certain type within your document to make editing even easier (learn more) Windows hardware (GPU) acceleration (for users running Windows 10 (April 2020 update or later) with a Direct3D feature level 12.0 capable card) Studio presets for the UI layout to save your favourite workspace setups for different tasks, explained here Studio panel combinations (also learn more) Linked images and Resource Manager (learn more) PDF passthrough option added Save As Package feature to collate your document alongside all used image and font resources into a folder (learn more) Divide blend mode added Placed scale for all placed files, which allows scaling to be reset to 100% (learn more) Added hierarchical antialiasing control - accessed from the Blend Ranges dialog in the Layers Panel Curves numeric field controls Blend modes for mask layers Added export preview to export dialog (for raster types) Create brushes from current pixel selection (learn more) Content sync of store purchases (requires registration).
This feature is explained in more detail here Sync your Affinity Store resources with your Affinity 1.9 apps Fixes & Improvements:
Elliptical marquee automatically creates from centre Added option for Designer to be able to show/hide overflow text - particularly useful for text on a path Snap to pixel selection bounds Configurable bleed and margin guide colours When creating a global colour from an object also apply it Filter effects now work properly with global colours Original file name no longer saved as "Title" in PDF, after renaming the file Fixed inability to change document dimensions while aspect ratio was unlocked When items copied as SVG they could not be pasted as text Fixed Tools getting stuck in the hand tool cursor after using spacebar + alt and click to zoom out Added Canvas Rotation option to Preferences New Samples Various stability improvements Help and Localisation improvements Performance improvements  
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Designer).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

Some really useful features added here and helpful videos to explain them. Keep up the great work Affinity!

Some beta testers saw significant increases in performance. Some did not, but for those who do it was certainly beneficial. The latest drivers often improved matters. This is some bleeding edge stuff.

I really liked the last example. Thanks for the update.
Best regards!