Social Networking or Notworking? No idea, let’s find out! We’re on Twitter now.

We pulled this article. People were worried about the impact it might have on the company and that’s certainly not our intention. April Fools joke gone bad  - sorry guys!

After three months of negotiations, I’m proud to announce that I’ve sold BlenderNation to the influential Windows Test & Fun Magazine. WTF, with a staff of 25 full-time editors are planning to put their full weight behind the biggest Blender news site. Read on for more details.

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Woah! Three years have already passed since I began a small experiment in blogging :). Time for a birthday present!

Maybe you remember our previous fundraiser where we donated 1 classroom, 4000 hot meals, 2 goats, 1 alpaca and 3 animal care kits to a Third World country? That was great, but when tax time came it became hell for me because I had to sort out all the donations with my bookkeeper ;-)

Still, I want to do something similar again – use the size and enthusiasm of this community to do good for others. Just with less tax headache.

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Christmas Eve is about to begin here, so let’s dress up BlenderNation with some great Holiday Seasons headers! I picked 27 designs from this weeks contest and put them on the site – almost everyone’s a winner this time! A new one will be shown each hour, so keep reloading to see if you’re in it ;-)

Merry Christmas!

Both Blender and the Blender community have been advancing at an incredible pace over the last two years – there is more and more activity and the users are rapidly becoming more professional. Being editors of BlenderNation we’re in front-row seat watching an amazing journey!

As a result, more commercial products and services are appearing. In a article which I wrote over 2,5 years ago I was already putting forward my belief that these commercial endeavors are a GOOD thing for Blender (and for Open Source in general) – they give more credibility to the project by providing much-needed documentation, training, support, access to developers and artists.

Still, how do you sell your product or service to a community? So far, getting a post on BlenderNation was the best thing you could hope for – most people will sell really well for a few days but then the effect falls off and you’re back in the dark. There had to be a better way.

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We upgraded our WordPress installation earlier this weekend and I’ve received some reports of login problems. To fix these, first log out using this link and then log in again.

Update: after trying this feature for only a couple of hours, it was already turning into a big mess. I found it impossible to follow the discussions or to easily see what the latest comment was, the email notification broke down and the nice, clean look of the site was completely gone (see this screenshot – brrrrr). Thanks for everyone for helping me test this, but it’s bye-bye threaded comments :-)