Bugs across Affinity Suite

[Meliora spero]

On 5/9/2024 at 10:30 PM, Bit Disappointed said:

I am not a dude, @ronnyb and the rest of you and I merely thought that you would appreciate an even more intricate variant of your own language—not dull and colorless like on X, Instagram, or elsewhere. Where I come from, it's called a challenge, provocation, and beyond feedback, it's a kind of stimulus-response test. But the content was quite simple and serious; it was just the form that confused you.

The absurd and puzzling part is that you value and understand your own logic here, especially with PLUS ONE numbers as high as +1 or even +400,000, despite the fact that writing numbers from 1 to even several millions have given you nothing. Hundreds or maybe thousands of posts in this forum have also not yielded anything special.

But the cited post says it all, simply everything. Let me outline the problem with Serif and Affinity:

• It's been the same company since 1987. 37 years in the same groove.
• They fundamentally make the same products they have always made.
• It's the same issue with bugs that were never resolved in Affinity as in Plus. 37 years in the same groove.
• It's the same issue with features that are thrown in, but never matured, 37 years in the same groove.
• It's the same corporate culture.
• It's the same types of deliveries.
• Everything is the same, Serif just started with a new product line, the style, the errors, and the problems carried over into Affinity, and after a hyped start where everyone clung to hope, we all see that it resulted in more of the same.

And STILL, you believe it will be different? What can you possibly base your hope on? Miracles? That you should write +500,000 instead? That you haven't asked humbly enough? That you didn't write enough posts? 

What's interesting is that so many here stay with the faulty software, writing thousands of posts. They are practically here night and day. They doubt my professional background despite the obvious lack of their own professional background or any professional weight. But instead, they prioritize writing in a forum and point me out as a potential junior? I just have to conclude that I tread reality daily where the form, content, and format are quite different. In addition to missing the mark, statements like that doesn't change my life. You aren't changing Affinity's form or features either, other than having a marginal influence, and now Serif has indeed been bought by a huge company that isn't specialized in graphic excellence, and you are now even more ineffective in affecting the course of events. But you do the same. Serif does the same. The future really isn't created here, nor does change thrive. It's just a trip around in a circle year after year.

And so I asked: Instead of all this mess, how MUCH of your money would you bet with a bookmaker that it will be very different in the future? Shift focus away from me. How many thousand dollars/euros would you gamble on significant change? Think about it. No sullen answers to me; think about how much of your savings you would gamble on it. The amount will tell you whether you should start making other plans.

You're shooting yourselves in one foot here. When you sling mud at me, you shoot yourselves in the other foot. Two perforated feet significantly increase the odds that you can't keep up with us out here, and that you don't look up and around.

It's an absolute pleasure for me to return to reality and leave this behind. It is beyond any doubt that there are virtually no professionals here. Nor is it any coincidence that of all the companies on earth, Serif was bought by Canva, for crying out loud.

Well, well, well, well, well... I’ve found this post. Congratulations, Bit, you were right, and you are still right!

One year later, we’ve only discovered that the subsequent release, 2.6.0, was every bit as disastrous as 2.5.0 was. Even after bug fixes, it's still plagued with errors, and serves as a testament to Serif’s corporate culture remaining unchanged. Poor releases continue to occur, filled with bugs, bad usability, and, most notably, technical debt and dreadful algorithms.

There’s no need to cry over what I’ve written on top of Bit’s post or send me angry replies - just read the many posts from frustrated customers after 2.6.0. Take it in, listen, reflect.

As usual, the spotlight was turned on the critic - in this case, you, Bit - rather than where it truly belongs: on Serif and Canva, who have yet to show the will, capability, or results to prove that the Affinity project is moving onto a mature path, away from past mistakes and an amateurish approach to software development, and towards professional-grade algorithms, usability, and features.