Meh, it's a complete s***show anyway. The platform itself is completely chaotic, and it doesn't seem like they're that much invested in it. They say they read all the posts, but even if that's true, they're very absent from the discussion.

Serif staff almost never replied to posts in the Feedback forum, anyway, so no much has changed there. The most important change, of course, is their abandonment of a forum in favour of a chat room: even if it weren’t chaotic it would still be a poorer format.

As a sidenote, the forums being made read-only but left open also leaves open the perhaps slim possibility they could be opened again in the future.

While I perfectly understand your sentiment, the “powers” that be (they're just Serif employees volunteering as “mods” of sorts, and while the one I interacted with was super nice and that may make the whole thing seem endearing, it's actually concerning that Canva can't be arsed to hire some proper full-time mods) were very adamant about that not being, like, at all in the cards. They went all-in on Discord, I'm afraid.

Meh, it's a complete s***show anyway. The platform itself is completely chaotic, and it doesn't seem like they're that much invested in it. They say they read all the posts, but even if that's true, they're very absent from the discussion. They are, of course, under a gag order regarding the announcement on the 30th, but still. And, yeah, there's the whole privacy angle to be considered, especially if you're in the UK, oof.

I couldn't even access them on Discord.  The link said the invitation had expired and I saw no other way to get in.  And, after the news of Discord's data leak/hack, I'm not sure I'd want to sign up there anyway.

Do you think I should tell them about it… on Discord? That's the ethical thing to do, and surely they will close those loopholes, but it would be hilarious if they just completely forgot about it and haven't even [been] monitoring them for a while (let alone now), it just goes to show how inept they are at this kind of thing.

It does seem a little unsafe to assume that they knew what they were doing and that they really wanted only to prevent the creation of new posts, doesn’t it! Especially since a handful of users with high post counts either trashed their posts themselves or asked for them to be deleted when they left. The ability to add or remove reactions is a minor issue, but removal of multiple posts from a lengthy discussion is seriously disruptive.

No, really… I was feeling a bit bad about my last message, as Serif did extend their Mac and PC trials (iPadOS users were never affected, as they just offered free licenses and that was that) until the end of the month, so I decided to give it ago, and guess what, I could edit it. Check it out: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … nt-1414965

Do you think I should tell them about it… on Discord? That's the ethical thing to do, and surely they will close those loopholes, but it would be hilarious if they just completely forgot about it and haven't even even monitoring them for a while (let alone now), it just goes to show how inept they are at this kind of thing.