I also agree with you, especially about putting out a product that isn’t what it says it, which is false advertising and can lead to legal issues as well. I’m not sure how much it happens in the crafting world, but it is starting a lot of conversation.
Another factor could be the maturity of the pattern creator. This includes their language, abbreviations, and how they converse with their audience, which differs from others and eventually stays within the pattern’s grammatical wording.
Or when the designer releases the pattern when you, and other testers are still working on it, and they never even gift it to you… This has happened to me more than once, sadly.
I can get behind this. I am both a pattern designer and a pattern tester.
When it comes to ideas being brought up when people are testing my pattern, I tend to get ideas that would help the pattern to reach a wider audience, but if I am already comfortable and fine with how the pattern is written, then I would just publish the pattern anyways without taking the ideas on how to actually advertise the pattern. However, I do take ideas for the written pattern itself. Just because I make my own pattern doesn’t mean that I have to take every idea that a tester presents to me, but I might take a few ideas/recommendations and change things within the pattern to account for it more. This in general is seperate from the fact that when I get an idea represented to me or a suggestion for the written pattern itself (or somebody spots a mistake) I would 100% fix it.
Now, on the other side of things, I am also a pattern tester. I can defintely understand the frusteration of testing someones pattern and then not having them change something, especially if it as severe as a mistake within the pattern. If it’s a suggestion I have for the pattern itself, then whatever, idm if they don’t take that suggestion, but it’s a whole different story when someone doesn’t change a mistake or typo in the pattern eve when more than one person has explicitely stated that there is a mistake within the pattern.
At the end of the day, all I can say is that we are pattern testers and we are not the designers. We cannot make the designers change things if they don’t want to or are too lazy to change something. Obviously I’m sure all of us want one another to exceed in the ribblr community and we all do the best we can to try and lift one another up and help support one another so we all can be successful. At the end of the day, it will be the pattern designers loss if people don’t buy/download their patterns. We can’t do anything to change what the pattern designers do or say, which to be honest, kind of sucks for us pattern testers.
At the end of the day, I have thought about this a couple times but never thought to bring it up in the community because I wasn’t sure if people have experienced the same issues as me or not when testing. I think it would be cool if the pattern designer can “recruit” someone from the testing to be able to have privileges do edit or change the pattern. Obviously this will have to be done by the pattern designer themselves and testers cannot recruit themselves. I also think it would be a good idea to be able to check or uncheck boxes for what the recruits can and can’t do. For example the pattern designer might want the recruit to be able to change a certain line of text, but can’t change the description, photos, or the rest of the pattern in entirety.
@kodaa Designers can assign editors to their patterns. They can grant them access to specific patterns or all patterns. This is done in the testing tab of the shop manager.
@CosmikEluminatedC I will definitely send you a picture and the pattern when I get my lighting bug figured out and completed I also plan to add a tag to your dragonfly as the inspiration for the lightbulb appendage in my pattern description
I just love that one of my designs inspired someone. It’s a humbling experience. I can’t wait to see your lightning bug! I adored your creativity on the dragonfly too.
I also plan to add a tag to your dragonfly as the inspiration for the lightbulb appendage in my pattern description