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this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2024
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Good time to drop a reminder that Affinity's tools are 50% off right now and are buy-once software.
Unfortunately, they were also recently acquired by Canva. It may be all right for the time being, but I wouldn't throw my full weight behind them anymore.
Yeah same. I used to recommend them whole heartedly but now Im afraid they will go downhill
I guess I'm out of the loop, what's wrong with Canva?
Canva is an aggressively for profit company. They use the freemium model to manipulate users into FOMO, pay-walling the actually useful parts of their product offering. They are an unicorn startup from Australia. They want to engorge the entirety of the design and office market all at once, thus have expanded fast but entirely on the basis of venture capitalism and stock trading. ~~They, as far as I can recall, are not entirely profitable yet~~*. This means that their model is incompatible with Affinity's model and brings about the fear that they will enshittify Affinity very soon in order to either try to promote their desired monopoly or to flow in some short-term profits.
*: They are profitable, but still their model is embrace, extend, extinguish, just like MS. And subscription based monetization is still icky and contrary to Affinity's original vision.
Wow ok thanks for the explanation, I had no idea. Maybe I should look for an alternative, if there is still one.
You're not wrong! But at least for now I got a decent PS alternative for $45. We'll see how things go.
Time to donate and switch to Gimp?
Well the good thing about their licensing is that you can buy a version and stick with it in spite of whatever the parent company does, and you're not banned from using older versions like with Adobe's T&Cs
And they are a really great alternative!
...for now.
They control it, not us. It fails to include a libre software license text file. Some people never learn. 🤡