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A Christmas present from the Cura team! You can find the alpha release of the improved tree / organic support (contributed by the amazing Thomas Rahm) here: github.com/Ultimaker/Cura…

@francip @martinwoodward @JunghwanNa8355 I've looked at the quality of the rant posted here. That's not a guaranteed indication, but all of it is LLM generated and doesn't touch the core of the problem towards developers. Based on that I'd say "nevermind the contribution". A contribution is more than just the code.

@nallath @martinwoodward @JunghwanNa8355 Have you looked at the quality of the code contributed?

Github grew up on the backbone of open source projects where everyone could contribute PRs without first sending an email for "official" approval. There are some OSS that do this, but they are the minority (I think) I am not sure how @JunghwanNa8355 was supposed to know he needs to send email to every open source repo, or even how to find the right emails, or what his chances of actually getting someone to respond would've been.

@dscape @ryan_castner @ljharb @JunghwanNa8355 @goncalossilva Eh, I'd agree that the experiment was cool if people asked for it and opted in. Now it's just adding undue load to already overworked OS developers. So as much as it sucks to get banned, I'm with the automatic GH system here.

agree, but the experiment is super cool He should generalize it and give it to contributors; we could even have an 'autoresearch' type solution to help contributors tackle issues @goncalossilva built a really cool /review system, that would also be helpful Developing an independent (but with oversight) agent to help open-source projects would be amazing.

@dscape @ryan_castner @ljharb @JunghwanNa8355 Same for me. But getting LLM's PR's that are from someone who has no insight or connection to the project isn't helping. I could do that myself and better. Now, if it's a new contributor, i'd be willing to invest, since that might grow the pool. But driveby PRs? Yeah nah.

I was a maintainer and contributor to many open-source projects. The reason I left was people "demanding fixes" or "better licensing" or "support for free" or not wanting to help or support contributors. Never got annoyed by anyone trying to help. Reviewing someone else improving what I did was always the highlight of the day

@ryan_castner @ljharb @dscape @JunghwanNa8355 Sure. And that's why both systems have a block button and anti-abuse/spam systems. The problem for open source contributors is the amount of time it's now taking them to reject low effort / low quality PR's.

@ljharb @dscape @JunghwanNa8355 could you make the same argument about open source? its open, you are inviting random PRs from people you dont know and havent heard of, welcome to the internet.

@martinwoodward @JunghwanNa8355 @francip I personally see this as a correct instance of at least a temp (if not permanent) ban. The fact that all the posts of the original author are clearly LLM written gives me the feeling that it's not someone I'd want contributing on projects i'm working on.

Activity on repos where you do not have write access is definitely viewed differently to repos you own and more likely to get you flagged. The cat-and-mouse game with spammers and people submitting low-quality contributions is forever on-going though and the rules and automation around it change on an hourly business. For every post such as this where it is well meaning contribution, I can show you a dozen from maintainers of those projects complaining about the huge rise in low-quality / unwanted contributions. I've asked the team to review your particular case manually. But I'd be interested in what folks from the community think. Is this the type of contribution that you welcome or do you think our systems are correct in flagging this type of behaviour for manual review?

@Cynical_3DPrint @All3DP @makerbot Makers can get tips? Under Ultimaker we even added more options to receive tips. You can see the entire list of changes we made during that time: thingiverse.com/changelog

@All3DP About time a company besides @makerbot gave a dam about thingiverse. They gave up years ago about their best creation (not their 3d printers). The site is so bad it was breached and they didn't tell us for a year, site management is a joke, and makers can't get tips they make.

The End of an Era: MyMiniFactory Acquires Thingiverse all3dp.com/4/the-end-of-a…

@Mirrorada @thingiverse We've already been doing that. If you feel that a file is stolen, report it.

@thingiverse Hope this also means you'll be scrubbing the database of stolen/reuploaded files as well.

(1/4) Thingiverse is joining the MyMiniFactory family! MyMiniFactory has acquired 100% of Thingiverse, bringing together two of the biggest communities in 3D printing.

@alder_riley @AndrewASink There have never been 25 million designs on thingiverse. If someone reported that, that was widely off the mark. The designs use a pretty simple incremental ID system. Right now we're at ID 7m-ish.

I didn’t see this one coming! Curious to see the reception of this news; and also really curious about the structure here! I think MyMiniFactory was originally owned by iMakr, but I haven’t seen their name pop up in a while?

@awful_piper @thingiverse Uh. I just tried this and it works for me. Could you share a bit more info? Might be that we're overlooking something.

@SoulL3s5Ginger @thingiverse We're going to add this to the search soon. Until then you can enable this option in your userprofile

@thingiverse we need this as a filter option

@iridium_rose @HoundsTheEnby Don't worry, we like you for uploading to Thingiverse <3

@HoundsTheEnby Yea I'm dumb and gay and a troon. I do not care

Published the final version of the 62mm tulip lens hood I designed. thingiverse.com/thing:7269154

@ZombieHedgehog_ @TechJeeper @shouse59 @pezliz @JoshMurrah Yeah, I can see the advantage of both approaches. But in the case of TV we felt that improving the stability & speed was more important to do first (and well, also just plow through the backlog of the moderation, which is now done)

@nallath @TechJeeper @shouse59 @pezliz @JoshMurrah It's very rewarding and builds trust to get notifications that reporting actions were taking seriously, the more users that know the system works, the less complain about stolen models.

man, JamesThePrinter deleted his little Debbie christmas cake boxes and ornaments, from Printables, and I didn't save them off.... I am now sad. Does somebody on here maybe have the STLs?

@ZombieHedgehog_ @TechJeeper @shouse59 @pezliz @JoshMurrah No, it's on our list to improve. But we felt that actually improving our moderation speed was more important than actually notifying everyone involved. And there is the unfortunate truth that especially telling the trolls that their stuff was removed will just cause more work.

@nallath @TechJeeper @shouse59 @pezliz @JoshMurrah Do you send out emails with this info/notifications in your account /emails?

@ZombieHedgehog_ @TechJeeper @shouse59 @pezliz @JoshMurrah If it's a formal DMCA their thing gets a banner and is placed under moderation. If its for a normal violation of the TOS, we just remove it.

@nallath @TechJeeper @shouse59 @pezliz @JoshMurrah What is your process for notifying the the affected individuals and reporter? I've never needed to report a model on thingiverse so I'm curious what the review process is.

@TechJeeper @shouse59 @pezliz @JoshMurrah Heeey :'( We pretty much handle reports about stolen models every day.

@shouse59 @pezliz @JoshMurrah As far as stolen models go, the model designers I've talked with said MakerWorld tends to be one of the more responsive ones for takedowns. This wasn't always the case but it's gotten better. Also, at least it's not Thingiverse 🤣

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@reprinted3D @devmobnow @ZombieHedgehog_ We actually did quite a lot of work on it. You can find a list of the changes we did here: thingiverse.com/changelog

@devmobnow @ZombieHedgehog_ Thingiverse has updated the site, actually. It still echoes back to the old one, but they did some work on it, and many people are still uploading models there.

What 3D model site do you find yourself using most to find free things to 3D print? If other, don't vote and leave a comment 👇

@twityves427 @JeffreyRMillman @JasenkaPhd Well, they shouldn't as that would likely be illegal. The files were removed due to infringing on copyright of someone else.

@JeffreyRMillman @JasenkaPhd removed from Thingiverse, would anyone be willing to share the files privately?

I 3D printed some tube holders. Now I'm ready to be the best (like no one ever was) #Pokemon

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Our Pure Loop 3 LX Custom Cover Challenge with @Thingiverse is still running. Got a cool idea for your own design? 🎨 There’s still time to join and show your creativity! 👉 Enter here: thingiverse.com/challenges/pur… #bequiet #PureLoop3LX #CustomCoverChallenge #3DPrinting