1 Topic by JAmedia (edited by JAmedia 2025-10-06 09:21:01)

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Topic: Good bye and thanks for all the fish

As I was saying before, the Affinity forum was locked, some time between 01:00 and 08:00 on Monday 6th of October......  https://punster.me/images/myopera/myg/smile.gif


Hopefully I will see all the regulars from the Affinity forum on here.

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Re: Good bye and thanks for all the fish

I think it was locked at some point between 06:00 and 06:20 our time.

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that we can still send private messages, at least for now. Perhaps cutting off write access to PMs without also making it impossible to view old messages it isn’t as easy (if it’s even possible) as making the forums themselves read-only. We can still react to existing forum posts, we just can’t make new ones.

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Re: Good bye and thanks for all the fish

I hope you have a plan for the future, as I suspect this forum will grow, and it might need upgrading to a full forum system.

I am on another forum, completely unrelated, that has two tiers.  Normal, that is free and enhanced that costs £5 a year. The enhanced gives you a few extra things, but it is there for people to support the site. Enough people pay the enhanced to cover most of the bills for the hosting and other bits. 

Just something long term to think about.

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Re: Good bye and thanks for all the fish

JAmedia wrote:

I hope you have a plan for the future, as I suspect this forum will grow, and it might need upgrading to a full forum system.

Plan? Wozzat?? https://punster.me/images/wacko.gif

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Re: Good bye and thanks for all the fish

Alfred wrote:
JAmedia wrote:

I hope you have a plan for the future, as I suspect this forum will grow, and it might need upgrading to a full forum system.

Plan? Wozzat?? https://punster.me/images/wacko.gif

I think you might need one if the rumour that it won't be a stand alone V3 but a web based system.

I can see you will get a lot more Affinity users on here. V1 and V2


PS when are you going to develop an open source Linux version of the V2 affinity suite? :-)
I am assuming that as this is a user forum not a company forum that does support and feature requests we won't see a Linux thread on here :-)
Actually on a serious point an  Affinity-Linux section for those who are trying to use Affinity on Linux might not be a bad idea, as long as they stay in it with their heretical rants :-)

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Re: Good bye and thanks for all the fish

JAmedia wrote:

PS when are you going to develop an open source Linux version of the V2 affinity suite? :-)

LOL.

JAmedia wrote:

I am assuming that as this is a user forum not a company forum that does support and feature requests we won't see a Linux thread on here :-)

I’m inclined not to censor anything that isn’t illegal or gratuitously offensive, but there are better places for general discussions about Linux.

JAmedia wrote:

Actually on a serious point an  Affinity-Linux section for those who are trying to use Affinity on Linux might not be a bad idea, as long as they stay in it with their heretical rants :-)

I’m happy to add such a section and wait to see whether — and if so, how — anyone uses it.

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