Flynnsworth

How anyone can read my post and think I’m a Canva fan is beyond me. You are trolling at this point. Changing your username like a 6 year old. I have signed up to the forum today to share my views as an Affinity customer. I’ve attached my purchases for the last 5 years. Please kindly share your purchase history with the group.

We’ve all been burnt by these corporate buyouts and awful subscription models. Macromedia was a painful 1 for me. But we’d have never reaped the benefits of such great tools without MacroMind and Authorware merging in the first place. They also bought out Altsys who made FreeHand and FutureWave who made FutureSplash (Flash). After that we got a pioneering suite of software with an amazing vector engine before Adobe came along and took the bits that they wanted. Canva does strike me as the typical venture capitalist type corp ready to destroy everything in its wake. If that is the case, then they have absolutely no reason whatsoever to make the pledges that they have made today. I am sure they are under no illusion that this community has walked away before and it will walk away again if need be. They have the funding and infrastructure to take Affinity software to the next level. Serif have the development expertise to take Canva software to the next level. Only time will tell but I’m not going to make 20 posts on this forum crying about hypotheticals.

Like many I was shocked at yesterday’s announcement. These pledges are reassuring and dare I say it, they give me a tiny bit of optimism for what might be possible with greater funding and different skillsets. More than anything, I hope the Affinity suite stays lean and fast. I’m all for carefully implemented new features, but I hope we don’t get Adobe style bloat. Congratulations on the merger. I will reserve judgement for now, but there’s a huge opportunity for ‘Canva’ to prove us all wrong and to empower a community that Adobe lost many years ago.