Hi All, I am thrilled to announce that Affinity is joining the Canva family. This is a moment of great excitement, anticipation, and profound gratitude for all of you who have been part of our story so far. We know that those of you who’ve put your faith in Affinity, some since we launched our ve...
  • pop@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    2 years ago

    Better give inkscape more practice.

    lol at the “no plan to change at the moment” crap. that ship has already sailed.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      2 years ago

      Better give inkscape more practice.

      Too bad Inkscape uses GTK. It’s fine under Linux and okayish under Windows but under macOS it’s just horse shit. There’s a reason Krita’s popularity exploded. It just works great everywhere (heck, even Android under Samsung DeX).

      • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        What makes it bad on mac? On windows I find both krita and inkscape mediocre UI’s but idk how much of that is the toolkit, and how much just small open source teams not having time for ui/ux

    • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      The only thing that inkscape could be better at is image tracing. Other than that its my favorite vector software.

    • stellargmite@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’ve used Designer for several years now in combination with inkscape very heavily for work having bashed my head against a wall called Adobe Illustrator for years - all the obvious reasons including terrible svg support. Inkscape should be supported for sure , but Designer has sped up workflow no end with what I use it for. It’s a shame that everything must enshittify.

  • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    16·
    2 years ago

    I was recommended Affinity on here a while back as a one-time-payment alternative to Adobe subscription based photoshop/publisher.

    I haven’t used Canva in a while, but I remember disliking their interface and pricing schemes. Am I right to think that this change is a bad thing for Affinity users?

    We have to say that selling Serif was not on our minds at all, but when Canva contacted us (only a couple of months ago!) there was something about it which just felt right.

    hmm :/

    Will the ethos of Affinity change now it’s part of a large global company?

    The team behind Affinity remains in place and our approach remains the same – and this is something that Canva is very focused for us to maintain too. Yes, we are now a division within a larger company, but we believe this will allow us to serve our community even better in the future and give us even greater freedom and ability to challenge the status quo.

    They don’t say anything about pricing / plans. If I’m going to be forced into a subscription anyways, then I might as well use adobe’s stuff

    • MasterHound@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      Just bought Designer a week ago. Wouldn’t have touched it had it been a subscription. I love it so far but it will be my last purchase of any Affinity software if they move to a subscription.

        • MasterHound@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          I’ve sent them an email, not too hopeful I’ll get any information out of them about their pricing model going forward though.

          Edit: They replied but they just gave a copy and pasted statement from the press release that Designer V2 users will own in perpetuity, nothing regarding future plans.

          • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            I too wrote to them. This is their reply

            Nothing changes. We will continue to sell the apps as a single payment and you’ll continue to get regular free updates. If anything, this will enable us to introduce bigger updates, faster.

  • elliot_crane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    Do you want to lose customers forever? This is how you lose customers forever.

    This is about the dumbest business decision either side could have made here. The Affinity tools’ only competitive advantage was not having the Adobe pricing model. Canva’s pricing model is basically dogshit Adobe lite.

  • LCP@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    :(

    I bought the V2 suite of their apps at release to support the company because I’m tired of perpetual subscription software. I’m not expecting lifetime updates or support, I just want whatever I paid for to work reasonably without hassles.

  • loki@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I bought Designer last year as a one off. But there’s no point in mastering it anymore. That’s just going to suck you more into their ecosystem, then a subscription, then raising price, and then whatever they want.