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Comment by Igelau | Hacker News Reader

It looks cool, but I really hate subscription pricing. At least let me keep the last fully functioning version I had a license for like JetBrains does.

I went digging in the Terms and Conditions to see if there was such a thing allowed and I saw this bizarre item on the thou-shalt-not list for users:

> Disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Site. [0]

Is there some UK legal definition of "disparage" that I'm not aware of, or are they basically saying "don't you dare talk any smack about us or we'll ban you so hard"?

Maybe that's in everything these days and I just never noticed.

[0] https://cavalry.scenegroup.co/terms-and-conditions/

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I could never use subscription software with a clause like that in a professional context. That's far too much risk to take on.

I can picture the response from them already too - "oh we would never use this clause to silence criticism of our product, that's not the intent" etc. If that's the case, then rewrite your contract so that it doesn't say you can do that - people write legal terms of use instead of ad hoc verbal agreements for a reason.

It's a shame too, because it seems like a pretty good tool otherwise.

Are you a professional motion graphics artist? Just curious.

Also a shoutout to Blender which also had a lot of 2D animation upgrades in recent times.

While we're on shoutouts and recommendations, I've recently started playing with Wick Editor[0], which is a very good, simple, open source flash-style animation authoring tool. SVG import, mp4 and HTML5 export.

I'm intending to use it soon for some animations to communicate some concepts better over video. The only real limitation I've come across so far is a lack of shape tweening, which would be a very nice to have.

[0] https://www.wickeditor.com/

Thar actually looks pretty good! Gonna give it a spin.

Thanks for the recommendation. Looks really cool.

I haven't fired up Blender in years. I'll check it out.

"... in our opinion"??? That means they don't have to prove anything; they just have to believe it, and boom: you're in violation.

Bonus points: their website doesn't let you copy the text from the "Terms and Conditions." It's just that text, not the rest of the page, so it's a deliberate choice. Run, run, run away.

I was wondering if anyone else ran into that with the copy/paste! I had to type it out manually and just figured it was my mobile browser being crappy.

Yeah, no thanks!

Immediate “no” from me.

it means if you dare to give us a negative review, we will sue you.

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