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To address some of what is being said on this thread...
Firstly to be clear I'm not a founder, but have been with the company for 25 years. I'm officially appointed as Managing Director of the company, but also use CEO as my title as that is my role in terms of how other countries would view it.
Both Canva and us have made 100% clear we are committing to perpetual licences always being available. That will include V3 or any other future major upgrade of our apps which are released. What's more I will say with Canva's backing we are not under the same financial pressure we would have been to release a V3 anytime soon, meaning those of you using V2 will actually benefit from more features as free updates which may previously have been held back for a V3 if that makes sense. This is of great benefit from an engineering standpoint too as we are far better testing and releasing features in smaller chunks than saving them up to package up as a sellable upgrade. 
https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity-canva-pledge/
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/27/24113423/affinity-canva-acquisition-pledge-license-price-subscription
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/press/newsroom/affinity-and-canva-pledge/
As we have made clear there will at some point be a subscription option also which people can take if they choose to. I'm sure there will be additional benefits to that subscription in the future such as asset and document sync, sharing and collaboration and other things which naturally require a subscription as they are features which incur ongoing cost. It may also include other things which can be leveraged with a Canva subscription such as greater stock libraries of images, graphics and fonts. Hopefully that would just be considered reasonable and understandable. There will certainly not be any cynical cutting down of features or limitation of ongoing support in our existing apps just to force a subscription play.
I understand examples of previous acquisitions can make some of you fearful, but they are just historic examples - it has no bearing on what will happen in this case and we are genuinely doing something here which is very different and special. Everything I said on Tuesday, and what both Canva and us pledged yesterday, is 100% true and we are going to stand by it. That includes keeping our entire team here with no layoffs, and continuing to be based in Nottingham. 
If you want to believe this or not is up to you, I'm not sure what more we can say at this point to convince those who doubt it. We'll deliver on this over the coming months and years so whatever is being said right now I know it's going to be all good and assuming you are still using Affinity apps you will be happy with how they have developed and that we have continued to be fair and inclusive with our pricing.
Also to follow on from Patricks point - I can take some of the personal attacks on me, but I have to say some of the conduct on this thread with some of you being very quick to attack other community members just because they hold different opinions is really disheartening to see. You can absolutely give your opinion on this deal for sure, and we are happy to leave this as an open forum within reason, but that does mean being courteous to other forum members and not just repeating the same points over and over.
Thanks,
Ash
 

I’ve attached a short video showing one way to do it with a brush in Designer (it might also work in Photo but I haven't tried).
2024-03-14 09-39-15.mp4

Would love to be able to right click on a placed resource and have a quick option to get to the Resource Manager.
Found an old comment from the v1 forums asking for this, but thought a "relaunch" of the request might be worthwhile.
 

Excited to try out the new Sates panel, but couldn't figure out how to get to the Query options. Had to do some googling for a walkthrough and found my stumbling block was the often mentioned poor contrast UI. I couldn't see the little expander triangle.

Excited to try out the new Sates panel, but couldn't figure out how to get to the Query options. Had to do some googling for a walkthrough and found my stumbling block was the often mentioned poor contrast UI. I couldn't see the little expander triangle.

Excited to try out the new Sates panel, but couldn't figure out how to get to the Query options. Had to do some googling for a walkthrough and found my stumbling block was the often mentioned poor contrast UI. I couldn't see the little expander triangle.

Excited to try out the new Sates panel, but couldn't figure out how to get to the Query options. Had to do some googling for a walkthrough and found my stumbling block was the often mentioned poor contrast UI. I couldn't see the little expander triangle.

Maybe not quite what the OP is after, but if you "build" your shape with symbols, you can edit the node of one and have it affect all others.
Screen Recording 2024-02-16 at 3.28.29 PM.mov    

Would love to be able to right click on a placed resource and have a quick option to get to the Resource Manager.
Found an old comment from the v1 forums asking for this, but thought a "relaunch" of the request might be worthwhile.
 

Yikes! That's a pretty big UI blunder.

Well explained @Bit Arts. I should have been a bit more detailed in the first place. And @thomaso as well.

It may be subtle, but it would mimic the interaction of the ink on a colored paper.
On the right, you can see the color appears a bit darker since it is "printed" on a cream colored "paper"

Technically, yes, but if you've ever printed on non-white paper, you can clearly see the interaction. Most inks have a translucence that makes the colors appear different depending on the color of the paper they are printed on. It can be subtle at times, but for descerning designers (like the OP who has obviously used the setting in InDesign) it's something to be aware of.

Now that I think about it, I had this exact situation just last week. The cover page of a program I was printing had been designed with a light purple gradient over a b&w image. The choices of paper were between a cream colored parchment and a grey marbled affair. The "warm" cream color made a very unpleasant brown tone, whereas the "cool" grey let the purple "pop" a bit more and resulted in a much more pleasing print.

It may be subtle, but it would mimic the interaction of the ink on a colored paper.
On the right, you can see the color appears a bit darker since it is "printed" on a cream colored "paper"

Happy to help

You can drag from the "Sample from Location" icon in the Info Panel onto the canvas to place the pointer where you want.

Can confirm the same on MacOS 13.6.3 with Designer 2.3.1

If your "points" are all actual Shape objects, you could use "Select > Select Object > Shapes". Otherwise, you could tag them all and use "Select > Select Same > Tag Color"

You'll want to make sure "Transform Objects Separately" is selected in the Context bar

A rare treat to find a Time Bandits reference. A childhood favorite of mine.

A rare treat to find a Time Bandits reference. A childhood favorite of mine.

I support a toggle as well.
My use case involves needing to input document dimensions at export time, e.g. I'm exporting a thumbnail/small version of a larger file.
As it is now, I have to wait for the preview to render before being able to type dimensions into those fields.

My secret wish is that more Natural Intelligence is being seated in front of computer displays.  

I seemed to have fallen victim to this same issue.
Was doing some odd system stuff on my Mac for other purposes (rebooting in different partitions, resetting some configs, etc) And then all my Affinity Apps got stuck starting up somewhere around "loading fonts & content". Several force quits and a restart later and they all asked for license activation, but would crash before I had a chance to enter any info.
Deleting the v2 folder as @Paul Hodgson mentioned seems to have cleared it up. Had to enter activation on one app, and accept terms for all three, but I'm back in business.