Should we bother to write any suggestions here?

[kirk23]

It's doesn't seem  any new features are  coming into Affinity Photo?  At least I can't recollect anything new after "select same color tag" and linked layers. ( which are absolutely amazing btw)   

It's starts to look like Adobe or Corel   as if they fired all creative guys  and only product placement  staff is left.  

I understand there should be a production cycle like everywhere else with time to invent and time to sell   but still  as a gamedev artist I sometimes ask for a feature  and our tools guys do it  just 3-4 days later.    So I wonder  should we expect something new   anymore or Serif team  consider the product done and  focused on something totally different?

 

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, kirk23 said:

It's doesn't seem  any new features are  coming into Affinity Photo?  At least I can't recollect anything new after "select same color tag" and linked layers. ( which are absolutely amazing btw)  

Linked layers are a brand new feature in Affinity Photo, just added in 1.9. And that was only one of the new features in Photo 1.9.

New features like that generally only arrive in 1.x releases (e.g., 1.10) not in 1.x.y (e.g., 1.9.2) releases. Even so, there have been some small additions in 1.9.1 and 1.9.2. You can find the release notes for 1.9.2 here, for 1.9.1 here, and for 1.9.0 here to see others.

There have also been additional small features in the 1.9.4 and 1.10.0 betas. You can see the release notes for them starting with the current 1.10 beta on Windows here and work back.

So, certainly, suggest new features for Photo. You should search first and if someone else has already asked for a function that you want, you should add to their request rather than starting your own. Additional suggestions along that line are at the top of the Feature Requests forum.

3 hours ago, kirk23 said:

but still  as a gamedev artist I sometimes ask for a feature  and our tools guys do it  just 3-4 days later.

Seldom will you see response time like that, as the product is bigger and they need to do extensive planning and testing and development for new functions. Also, when you ask for something it will only be implemented if Serif agrees it is important to enough people, and if its implementation fits in generally with their plans, and if they can see a good way to implement it without hurting something else, and if they have staff available to design, code, and test it. In other words, it is a much different environment than the one you describe, if I understand the comment that I quoted.

You also will generally not get any response from Serif here. They do not disclose their plans, nor discuss future items.

[kirk23]

Thanks Walt.   Maybe my expectation was too high.    After long lasting frustration with Adobe products  including their recent new Substance 3d  I had a  high hopes  on Affinity during couple last years .    

  But as always  "convenient software"  is still   as much an oxymoron as dry water   and we will spend our lives  looking for for workarouds  anyway.