<story><title>Caught by MuseScore&apos;s Dark Patterns (2021)</title><url>https://gadanidis.ca/posts/2021-11-09-musescore.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ShadowBanThis01</author><text>MuseScore is trash. You can&amp;#x27;t even reorder notes or rests by dragging them (and you&amp;#x27;ll get attacked if you ask about this in the forum): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=AlJdKP5SvAc&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=AlJdKP5SvAc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re talking about simply swapping the order of notes or rests in a measure, which doesn&amp;#x27;t change the number of beats or otherwise invalidate it.&lt;p&gt;Keep downvoting, apologists.</text></item><item><author>gorkish</author><text>MuseScore = Fantastic market leading open source music notation package.&lt;p&gt;MuseScore.com = Stage 4 cancer.&lt;p&gt;It gives me some solace that the application will outlive the company. Perhaps if they themselves realized this, they would do a better job of stewardship for their community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hluska</author><text>I downvoted you because of your “keep downvoting, apologists’ comment. Your original comment was overly aggressive hyperbole. Instead of realizing your comment was the problem, you decided that we’re all just musescore shills.&lt;p&gt;That’s boring.</text></comment>
<story><title>Caught by MuseScore&apos;s Dark Patterns (2021)</title><url>https://gadanidis.ca/posts/2021-11-09-musescore.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ShadowBanThis01</author><text>MuseScore is trash. You can&amp;#x27;t even reorder notes or rests by dragging them (and you&amp;#x27;ll get attacked if you ask about this in the forum): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=AlJdKP5SvAc&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=AlJdKP5SvAc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re talking about simply swapping the order of notes or rests in a measure, which doesn&amp;#x27;t change the number of beats or otherwise invalidate it.&lt;p&gt;Keep downvoting, apologists.</text></item><item><author>gorkish</author><text>MuseScore = Fantastic market leading open source music notation package.&lt;p&gt;MuseScore.com = Stage 4 cancer.&lt;p&gt;It gives me some solace that the application will outlive the company. Perhaps if they themselves realized this, they would do a better job of stewardship for their community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reikonomusha</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know if an extraordinarily complex GUI program that services a hundred different kinds of users lacking a single feature is enough to classify it as garbage.&lt;p&gt;What alternative open-source, well-maintained, GUI-based engraving software would you recommend?</text></comment>