I am curious, Alfred, have an Affinity staff joined this forum?  Not asking who or their nickname on here, just if any are watching this forum?

Not as far as I’m aware, Chris, but they could be using pseudonyms and private email addresses. If there are any Serif staff among the members here, they certainly haven’t made themselves known to me.

William wrote:

JAmedia wrote:

I am curious, Alfred, have an Affinity staff joined this forum?  Not asking who or their nickname on here, just if any are watching this forum?

They would not need to join to be watching.

True.  Which doesn't answer the question: Do you know if any have joined?  It would be nice to know that some are looking here.

Yes, my reply does not answer the question, my reply just adds some information.

I have no knowledge of whether any have joined.

JAmedia wrote:

I am curious, Alfred, have an Affinity staff joined this forum?  Not asking who or their nickname on here, just if any are watching this forum?

They would not need to join to be watching.

True.  Which doesn't answer the question: Do you know if any have joined?  It would be nice to know that some are looking here.

I am curious, Alfred, have an Affinity staff joined this forum?  Not asking who or their nickname on here, just if any are watching this forum?

They would not need to join to be watching.

Ali wrote:

On FB they are telling people using the trial to contact support - provision is being made for their trial periods to be extended.

That's good, as it would suggest there will be something there after the extended period that has some resemblance to the V2 Affinity?

All it suggests to me is that they don’t want to leave potential customers high and dry! If you were to activate an Affinity V2 trial today, a seven-day trial period ending on October 16th without any possibility of extension would leave you without any Serif/Canva options for two whole weeks.

On FB they are telling people using the trial to contact support - provision is being made for their trial periods to be extended.

That's good, as it would suggest there will be something there after the extended period that has some resemblance to the V2 Affinity?

Talking of "careful planning", I noticed several people on the Affinity Forum, complaining that they were unable to purchase an Affinity licence, including a couple whose seven day free trial had finished. I would have thought that, with a bit of planning, the Affinity trial period (for v2) could have been extended until the "great announcement", when, presumably, the Affinity software will be available again.

Totally agree!  Whatever this "great announcement" is going to be it seems extremely short-sighted to actively prevent would-be new adopters of the software from actually buying and using it!

The support form does work ... and the ack email says "talk with other Affinity users on our support forum."

Edward

Bad_Wolf wrote:

...when we are stuck...

You'll never be stuck, I'm stuck.

It is for new and current users I assume in the UK...

I'm in the UK and I'd never been anywhere near Discord until I followed the invite link from the Affinity forum.  There was no age verification when I joined.

I then deleted my account about 10 mins later.

...when we are stuck...

You'll never be stuck, I'm stuck.