New site feature: edit your comments

Afbeelding 2Ever had that D’oh! feeling after making a mistake in a comment? You can now make changes to your comments for up to 15 minutes after posting them. Enjoy, and please let me know if there are any problems with it.

If you want to try it out, please feel free to post some crazy comments in this post ;-)

Scheduled downtime: Tonight 20:30-21:30 GMT+2

computer-trashOur second attempt! We’ll be moving BlenderNation to a more delicious server tonight. The plan is to bring the site down at 20:30 GMT+2 (Amsterdam time) and to spend about one hour to migrate and test everything. We’re stepping away from the potato-powered server, that didn’t work so well for us. We’re open for suggestions for alternatives! (Post your pics in the comments and I’ll pick one to use during our downtime).

Welcome to BlenderNation Links!

jayIt is with great pride (and just a tiny bit of fear) that I announce BlenderNation Links! I’m hoping that it will solve the biggest challenge for Blender users: finding quality and up to date tutorials, downloadable models, textures, books.. BN Links is a community-driven website where authors can leave their links and tag them. Our link browser allows you to drill down to exactly the kind of content that you’re looking for.

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BlenderNation Links: get your content in now!

afbeelding-2Testing of the BlenderNation Links system is going well and we’ll be ready to go live in just a few more days. If you want YOUR tutorials/models/materials/… to be there when we launch, send a message to inbox(at)blendernation.com and include your BlenderNation login name (BN Links is a ‘self-service’ system so you’ll have to take care of adding your own links). Thanks!

We now support OpenID

openid-logoDue to the insistent nagging of a certain unnamed individual (other than that this guy managed to blow four of his websites out of the water – without backups! Can you imagine THAT!? <evil grin>), you can now log in on BlenderNation using an OpenID account.

Update: no, we don’t. I’ve disabled OpenID for now because it was giving too many problems, and the webserver turned out to be barfing out error messages like you wouldn’t believe :-(