Bug(?) šŸ› always defaulting to standard license for remix uploads

MakerWorld
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Currently it always defaults to ā€˜standard digital licenseā€™ when you are uploading new models, even if you choose to do a remix something (from the top menu or from the model itself). It relies on the user to ā€˜do the right thingā€™ and set the correct license type.

The result is that just tons of stuff is getting uploaded set to a standard license when it should not be, since many people just fly through and upload whatever without reading anything closely.

Please fix this - I would consider this a bug!

If they are remixing a model from makerworld or any other supported site that can be imported from, it should inherit the same license as the remix model automatically with no option to change it.

Standard license shouldnā€™t even be an option for remix models! The only acceptable time I can think of where you should be allowed to set a standard license when remixing a model would be if you are remixing your own model (which againā€¦ you could easily support this if you wanted) but that is an edge case tbh.

I am happy to be wrong here in case Iā€™m missing somethingā€¦

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I prefer the new way. but, I am lazy.

I suspect it made it easier to push people to the new Exclusive program so they could later take back 125% of the points.

I agree with your logic though.

I do not imagine too many new users have much understanding of the different licensing types.

Some extra education here could be of great use.

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Iā€™ve been designing software for most of my career and one thing is certain, if you set default values on a form, a startling large number of people will not change them even if they should have.

Even if you force them to choose, the first option will always get more selections than it should because some portion of users just always pick the first option.

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35 years for me before I had to stop due to medical reasons.

As I said, I agree.

Which is why education should be first.

It would make sense to require new users to go through an onboarding process first to familiarise themselves with key methods and learn about required elements, the licence being one.

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