User talk:80.180.221.157

April 2021
Hello, I'm Donner60. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Blender (software), but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 04:04, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Well, to be honest, it was mostly for the sake of adding some (righteous) criticism to an encyclopedic article that seemed written "as an advertisement". Blender's GUI criticism is all over the internet, it's renowned as an application hard to learn, and not out of compelling reasons only, but exactly because of the user interface. I can provide links to developer discussion boards for Blender, e.g.

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/1-2-and-3-keys-are-still-destructive-in-object-mode/10374/15

highlights as an "infuriating" and "broken" legacy that ought to be removed or at least disabled by default, one of the behaviors I had pointed out in my paragraph. There are two threads on the same discussion board about that same problem, still tragically unanswered by actual Blender developers. Being them discussion boards, though, I'm not sure they'd count as "reliable sources". It's one of those cases in which I'd let the encyclopedia tell the reader "if you don't believe me, go try Blender for yourself, see if you can get a complex project out of it with your nerves still intact". :D

Still, I'm glad you didn't just silently delete my little contribution and left me that kind note, which is something the Blender community itself wouldn't do: they're impervious to criticism, which is also why it's taken 15 years for them to get some long-due changes to their absurd user interface.

You see, Blender is free software, which is very much appreciated but... there's things that can get worse than actually paying some money for a product, and one of those things, if you ask me, is having developers who don't give the classic F* when many users point out flaws in their product.

I guess we can leave my paragraph out and hope someone with more patience than me will take care of adding some circumstantiated and well-documented criticism on the many antics of the Blender interface, which'd deserve some mention even in an encyclopedia.