I'm alarmed by the request to sign in in Affinity products. Please don't make any cloud or account usage mandatory!

[pixelworker]

I recently updated all my Affinity products to the latest version and I see that there is an account management build in now. Plus, I get a request to sign in when starting the application.

There are certainly use cases were something like this can be helpful. But there are cases were this is just annoying. I work with confidential buisness data sometimes and I don't want to constantly check if I share or sync something unwanted or not.

I switch from Adobe because I was sick of all the cloud integration and pricing model. I want to have a good, simple and modern offline application without any network acitivities. This is one main reasons why I chose Affinity.

 

Please keep features like this always optional, let the user control the program and keep the users privacy in mind. 

 

[Alfred]

45 minutes ago, pixelworker said:

I don't want to constantly check if I share or sync something unwanted or not

There’s no need to check for this. The account sign-in is intended to simplify your access to content (e.g. brushes and textures) that you have purchased or claimed from the Affinity Store: it doesn’t offer the ability to share or sync content created by you.

[Hilltop]

1 hour ago, pixelworker said:

Please keep features like this always optional, let the user control the program and keep the users privacy in mind. 

 

+1 !

[Old Bruce]

Pretty sure it is optional right now. I didnt' bother with the signing in and have actually forgotten that it exists. I checked and there is a Don't show again button on the lower left which takes care of seeing the sign in window.