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⚠️ Concerns about people copying designs.

I've noticed that people have found a work-around for the uploaded house designs that don't allow you to save it. I uploaded one of my designs to the "Online Houses" tab with the "No saving" option on. Then I noticed people using the "Custom Design Catalog" to select furniture in my design and then save it as their own.

Custom designs copied from my "No saving" design.

My uploaded design with "No saving" option on:

Furthermore, people could copy the entire design by doing Ctrl+A (select all) and save all furniture as a "Custom Design".

I don't mean to be stingy, I shared my design for people to see and get ideas from it for their own designs, but not for them to completely copy it. This invalidates the "No saving" option entirely.

jawslouis1 year ago (2 edits) (+2)

Sorry this happened to you, and thanks for bringing this up. This is a serious issue and fixing the loophole will be my top priority. While the app is being fixed, I'll also:

Temporarily remove all designs with "No saving" from Online Houses. They will be restored when the app is fixed.
Remove the designs that copy your work from the Custom Design Catalog

This should prevent further copying while the fix is in progress.

Update: The loophole has been fixed in the latest version. Earlier versions of the app are also no longer able to access online designs, so this should close the issue. Again, sorry that this happened. Hope you'll still continue posting your designs!

bingus01 year ago(+1)

thank you so much , someone was copying my " cozy cabin " design piece by piece too , very unfortunate that people would do this

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