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I found it a bit hard to understand what the website is about. The community is obviously proud of their approach, but it slightly overshadows the main purpose.

Of course I'm just nitpicking, because I love everything about people who build such things. If you're working hard to be as nice as feasible, it's really hard not to advertise it.

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Thank you for your input. One thing we struggle with is that people have become distrusting of things that are 'free' on the internet (for good reason.

So if we're putting a lot of emphasis on how nice we try to play, that's because we have that initial distrust to overcome.

Your criticism is valid, I'm merely trying to clarifying why we are putting the communal aspects front and center.

If you have suggestions for how we could improve, please share them

Joost -- FreeSewing maintainer

It took me a few minutes to wrap my head around how the site works, but I am seriously impressed. It's intuitive and easy to grok.

The illustrations are tops, too - love that aspect.

I'm not familiar with relevant English vocabulary so I'm confused because authors' names mix with clothes names in the titles, not sure which is which. Also apparently nobody likes polo shirts.

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