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...
  • @conciselyverboseEnglish
    9•2 months ago

    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?

    I can tell you my first reaction sure as hell wasn’t “sweet, now I can hook my photo editor into some online bullshit”.

    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

    They have an FAQ that says they’re keeping the same model and plan to continue to develop v2. How long that lasts, though?

    • Footnote2669English
      11•2 months ago

      No plans “at this time”. So next week I’m guessing lmao

      • @conciselyverboseEnglish
        4•2 months ago

        Pretty much how I feel. I was OK with the transition to v2 because I thought the upgrade path was reasonable, but I feel like at some point I’m going to get screwed now.

        Though without updates the current version should be fine for me for the foreseeable future,

        • @conciselyverboseEnglish
          5•2 months ago

          I wonder if they recognize that “not a subscription” is a huge part of Affinity’s market position though.

          If you’re going to force a subscription, why wouldn’t I just use photoshop?

          • @[email protected]English
            1•2 months ago

            Maybe they want to compete with the price per subscription: let’s say they want to charge 5 € per month for Photo, Design and Publisher each, against 26 € for Photoshop (alone).

            • @conciselyverboseEnglish
              1•2 months ago

              Maybe.

              Wouldn’t make a difference to me though. If you go to a subscription, I’m leaving, and with a lot of bad blood.

    • Altima NEOEnglish
      2•2 months ago

      The FAQ is very deliberately worded in that nothing changes now, but offers no reassurance for the future. V2 will stay the same, but V3, or whatever they decide to call it at that point, could very well be subscription based.