Where do folks prefer to host their 3d models and designs? Do you use one site, or multiple?

I originally started on Thingiverse, but switched to Printables after it launched and that has been my main location for uploading to. I recently decided to copy all my models to Thingiverse and Thangs, in additional to Printables, but I’m not sure its worth the effort to maintain the listings on multiple sites.

I love the Printables site, I think it has the best user experience, but Thingiverse seems to reach a bigger audience. Thangs I find useful for the search, but I’m not sure its worth hosting models there as well.

  • monotremata@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Well, also just that the site had kind of deteriorated from lack of maintenance–the search didn’t work (you had to use Google with site:thingiverse.com), model pages were incredibly slow to load, etc. They’ve fixed a lot of that recently, but for a year or so it seemed borderline unusable.

      • monotremata@kbin.social
        2·
        11 months ago

        Fair enough, I only got in to the hobby around 2015. But site issues were another reason that a lot of folks migrated to printables recently, so I do think it’s possible that’s part of what Fogle was referring to.

        FWIW though, I suspect that a lot of the folks here in the Fediverse do actually care about open source, open standards, and the value in defending truly public resources.