Alternative to Thingiverse?

vicious1 · January 30, 2020, 9:40pm

I will have to put the parts somewhere soon, TV is really not working well and getting worse.

barry99705 · January 30, 2020, 9:42pm

Mostly just screwing around. Printed it at 100mm/s.

barry99705 · January 30, 2020, 9:43pm

Put them on your github.

jeffeb3 · January 30, 2020, 9:51pm

All I hear about from Internet companies is how they try to get more and more traffic. Here is a place with a ton of traffic, a ton of original content, and it is being ran into the ground… I don’t really want to be tracked like I am on facebook, or have to log in every time like pinterest, but these websites work, with a ton of traffic, and they just want more.

I imagine if you let amazon advertise on the forums it would quickly pay for itself. But I have never tried that (please don’t do that).

How awesome would it be for someone to basically make the front end of TV, but have all the projects hosted on github? If there was a nice, friendly interface to posting stuff, and it ended up in git, and the preview page had the neat git features for viewing stls and markdown… And then, if you needed to go into advanced user mode, you’d have the github interface, with all it’s powerful tools for version management, user management, etc.

vicious1 · January 30, 2020, 10:03pm

Dam, that almost sounds like it is doable?

jeffeb3 · January 30, 2020, 10:05pm

Someone could do it. I wish github was the one to do it, since they do a pretty good job and are proponents of OS. They also have a business model that seems to be keeping their lights on.

jamiek · January 31, 2020, 2:02am

I just pray it doesn’t turn into sourceforge. That is so sad.

niget2002 · February 2, 2020, 5:27am

Github sucks for binary files.

jeffeb3 · February 2, 2020, 1:34pm

STLs and DXF aren’t binary files. They are text. Also, github also maintains git-lfs, which doesn’t suck as much. But uploading video versions or .zip to git can really male the repo huge.

turbinbjorn · February 2, 2020, 3:47pm

I’m honestly very confused by github, have always been. Great for installing stuff, but the content layout, wiki, pages, trees, pulls and whatnot is super confusing.

mordiev · February 2, 2020, 4:53pm

Ditto

jeffeb3 · February 2, 2020, 7:19pm

I agree. That’s the reason we went to mkdocs instead of the github wiki.

But that’s almost exactly what I was hoping for. A nice looking front end, but with a pencil somewhere for the advanced stuff.

niget2002 · February 3, 2020, 12:57am

Good point. I always forget those are text files.

barry99705 · February 3, 2020, 2:21am

And, github has a built in stl viewer.

jeffeb3 · February 3, 2020, 4:11am

And discourse has a builtin github viewer

vicious1 · February 3, 2020, 5:42am

niget2002 · February 3, 2020, 1:41pm

So, what I’m seeing is someone needs to come up with a better graphical frontend to display github projects like a Thingiverse page. It should also obfuscate all of the underlying git commands for updating those projects.

jeffeb3 · February 3, 2020, 2:25pm

Yes, exactly.

mordiev · February 8, 2020, 3:36pm

For anyone interested. PrusaPrinters.org is having a little contest. Upload models and photos of “useful things” and add it to the contest collection. Could win a free 3D printer.

Contest info. https://www.prusaprinters.org/contest/11310

vicious1 · February 8, 2020, 4:56pm

Does a CNC platform count as useful?