{"id":97713,"date":"2026-09-21T12:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/?p=97713"},"modified":"2026-10-27T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T09:47:04","slug":"show-your-support-for-blender-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/news\/show-your-support-for-blender-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Show your support for Blender projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A donation to the Blender Development Fund<\/a> has always been a non-targeted form of support that the Blender project further distributes as it sees fit. This will stay the same: the established process brings balance to development activities, ensuring that high-demand features go hand in hand with the necessary but sometimes invisible maintenance and quality-of-life improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, from an individual donor point of view, the act of supporting a specific activity carries more weight and comes with a sense of purpose. It is also important for the Blender project to know which features have the most impact for supporters of the Blender Development Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To address this, we recently added a “Show your support” feature to the donations page and the Blender Roadmap. Now, a donation can start from a project on the Roadmap page. Once the transaction is complete, it’s added to that project’s supporter count, shown as ‘likes’. This way, donations stay non-targeted, but still help increase a project’s visibility and highlight demand for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n