The lowdown is that nowadays many people(mostly teens, so I don’t really want to judge them too much) are still using Paint Tool Sai 1, pirated, and it’s so old it won’t work on windows 10 computers anymore.

Then the author proceeded to not update it for like… 8 years?, with Paint Tool Sai 2 being in beta for a small ever. So everyone and their grandmother pirated it until the author actually made an English version, at which point like 90% of people still pirated it. Mind you it only had like, 3 filters, but all those other things were HUGE back then. Paint Tool Sai was special in that it had a stablizer, and mirroring/rotating the viewport, and a color-mixing brush, and variable width vector curves, and a couple of cool dockers. So, PaintTool Sai is a 2d painting program with a simple interface that was the hottest thing around 2006 or so, because at the time, you had PaintShop Pro(a good image editing program, but otherwise…), Photoshop CS2(You could paint with this but it was rather clunky), GIMP, OpenCanvas(very weird interface) and a bunch of natural media simulating programs (Corel, very buggy, and some others I don’t remember). So, what did I do this sprint? Investigate LibSai (Tuesday) I was already somewhat tired when I arrived, and was eventually only able to do half days most of the time because there were just too many people … Unfortunately, it seems I am not really built for sprints. The idea being that the previous sprint was very much focused on bugfixing and getting new contributors familiar with the code base(we fixed 40 bugs back then), this sprint would be more about investigating workflow issues, figuring out future goals, and general non-technical things like how to help people, how to engage people, how to make people feel part of the community. This sprint was interesting in that it was an attempt to have more if not as much artists as developers there. This is in part because I don’t have to go abroad, but also because I tend to do a lot of administrative side things. I’ve been at all sprints since 2015, which was roughly the year I became a Krita contributor. So, we had a Krita sprint last week, a gathering of contributors of Krita.

Krita update 2019