PaulEC

Surely bug fixes are a good thing, why would you want less!

Currently no Affinity software is available to buy. Click on "Affinity" to the left of the search box, and see the announcement in the red banner, at the top of this page.

Have you clicked on the "Picker" button?

As someone who's been using Serif products since the early "Plus" days, I'd just like to add my thanks to Patrick and the Serif team for all their help and support over the years. I'll really miss this forum; I'm sure that, as part of Canva, Affinity will keep going, but it will never be quite the same! 😢

It sounds like the easiest thing would be to close the panel before switching to the Vector Persona!

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Thanks for this. I actually quoted it elsewhere (then couldn't find it again), and was told by someone that that is not actually what it says! "Forever" seems pretty clear to me, so I don't know why some people insist that it only means "for the lifetime of the product", and that the company decides how long that is!

A number of people, including James Ritson, use "Gumroad" to distribute free items.

Exactly! It's the same with any marketing. If a shop has a sale, they shout about it loudly!. If they are putting prices up, they keep quiet about it!

It has been pointed out that it isn't intended to be for support, rather as a place to chat and discuss Affinity. Support should be via the Support Forms. As someone once said, "So have I heard, and do, in part, believe it!" 😁

Well, the OP did get it slightly wrong! As you said, you don't need to be online each time you use the software – you only need to be online to activate it when you install it.

Yes they are, but you're missing the point! The problem does not concern using the apps, it's about being able to reinstall them if necessary! As it stands when you install/reinstall v2 of the Affinity apps you need to activate them online. If the servers used to activate the apps are no longer available you will no longer be able to activate them, so you won't be able to use Affinity v2! (Of course, there is no reason to assume that the servers will not be available at any particular time in the future, but some people are worried about not being able to continue using Affinity v2, depending on the way the software develops in the future, especially now that it has been purchased by Canva!)

Same user name on Discord, but no icon as yet.