For a long time it has been clear that the Thingiverse web site has been poorly maintained. Bugs would go for a long time without being fixed and performance sucks etc... but we are also seeing a slow atrophy of the site that can no longer be attributed to poor or lazy maintenance. This came to head in the past few months when the disabled and then removed altogether the zip file functionality. They did this because bots were scraping the zip files from the site and putting big load on the system... so rather than adding some DDoS protection and some bot protections, they just nuked a critical piece of the functionality. I fully expect a slow death of the site... the owners have decided it is too expensive for just 'supporting the community'
The problem is that the other 3D model sharing sites typically only have a tiny fraction of what Thingiverse does and have a much smaller user base. Does anyone have good suggestions for alternatives? I want to compile a list
For a long time it has been clear that the Thingiverse web site has been poorly maintained. Bugs would go for a long time without being fixed and performance sucks etc... but we are also seeing a slow atrophy of the site that can no longer be attributed to poor or lazy maintenance. This came to head in the past few months when the disabled and then removed altogether the zip file functionality. They did this because bots were scraping the zip files from the site and putting big load on the system... so rather than adding some DDoS protection and some bot protections, they just nuked a critical piece of the functionality. I fully expect a slow death of the site... the owners have decided it is too expensive for just 'supporting the community'
The problem is that the other 3D model sharing sites typically only have a tiny fraction of what Thingiverse does and have a much smaller user base. Does anyone have good suggestions for alternatives? I want to compile a list
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