WTF is going on with Thingiverse? When I went to post my latest design GE dishwasher rack end cap the form wasn't blank but instead was pre-populated with someone else's thing. I cleared that and went ahead and published my new thing But a few people have added it to their collections as I can see in my alerts I am done posting things I am not going to waste my time until this gets fixed.

Plus, I keep getting "comments" from all these lonely women wanting to "have sex" with me. How do I report this? I have been trying to get a customized object from Customizer. It shows up in the queue but never shows up in my objects. Is the Customizer not working at all? This is so awkward to use. It is also not possible to sort the collections by alphabet.

Would be great if this is finally fixed in near future. Thingiverse is a brilliant idea. It worked at first, but has been unusable for a while about Search does not work, the page refreshes slowly, very often the same projects appear when scrolling.

It does not update changes when you add new projects. In a word: it works very poorly. I'm sorry it's so bad It's a little faster in the off hours It really is a shame. Very sad. I tried to reload the site but it did not help. Please solve. I've posted 2 designs. It lists on my profile that I have 2 designs, but when I click to go to my designs, only one shows up. I can go into analytics and see the design there, but it isn't shown on my profile, and it isn't searchable.

The STL file also hasn't been rendered as was my first design I posted! Thanks admins! Suddenly my profile says that there are designs and collections but when i want to view them it just says "Nothing here yet". My issue is very similar. The site has been less usable for months.

The main thing is to display advertising, which wouldn't be a problem, but since then something different doesn't work with every change :- It will be a cramp to work sensibly here. I am having the same issue trying to access my collections. It shows that I have 12 collections, but it just says "Nothing here yet". Why when I edit the model, even the text, and click save it doesn't show up on the model page? Then, if you click edit, then everything is correct on the edit page, but nothing changes on the model page.

But for the model i had to rename the model file and remove old one to change it on server. The new web server has issues with refreshing cache on your browser. Everyone is experiencing the same thing. After you post a model, or a change to a model, or comment sometimes, you will not see it on the website for 24 hours sometimes. This will often allow you to see the changes, because it flushes all local copies of the data and forces it to download everything from scratch.

What is going on with the site New glitch: when adding something to my collections, the drop down menu is no longer in alphabetical order and not all of my collections are shown in the menu any longer. Some of the models I upload aren't rendering a thingiviewer so they are just a grey cog for pictures. How can I fix this? I uploaded a file I'd like to recover about 5 years ago, it's the only copy since my old computer crashed. When I click to download it takes me to a error file not found page with a black background.

I don't know. Maybe your model has been deleted too? What is the deal with the customizers? Not only do we see pages and pages of nametags that are useless to the people who do not bare those names and when I try to customize I get "Default backend - ", with or without addblockers and spamfilters I keep getting this error, and yet they should work because all the pages are swamped with these things. I can however download the openscads and do it myself, so there is no problem there I just figured it would be important to you guys that the customizers work for everyone.

I noticed last night that I can no longer log in to my account. Username and password are correct no errors show up, I click sign in it says it is signing me in but then sends me back to the main page and I am not signed in. I have even inputted the wrong password to see what happens and it does say incorrect password, so I know my login credentials are correct.

I have cleared my cache, restarted my computer and the results remain the same. My username is Outkast. Thank you. Hello, I have the same problem. Tried to publish a thing yesterday, and that's when it happened, apparently. When I call up my designs I can get into them, but I can't edit anything. Could even create a design as a test, but after saving, the same thing happened with it. My account name: HardyP I am very grateful for a quick troubleshooting. I'm having the same issues, 3 different browsers, 2 different PCs, 2 different Internet connections - I'm surprised I've been able to comment here because I was trying to comment on a design.

After some weeks of trying and waiting: The new layout is faster, but the bugs are really annoying. When will they be fixed? How about a statement, maybe a message to the users … make the development a bit more transparent. Then I will be patient - maybe!

Otherwise I will take my designs and look for an alternative. Ahh, i just found they've been sending updates on Twitter. There is a small team working hard everyday to keep the service up. You can try the original OpenScad. It is free, has a built in Customizer, works with the newest version of OpenScad, is better and stable.

Is there a way to use the old version of thingiverse? I find myself coming to this site less and less. My analytics is showing I am having no Views, and yet my designs page says they are continuing? Any ideas? Download figures appear correct, but Views does not? Hi, The same here. I've even tried to contact Thingiverse support, but no response for two weeks.

It started Since than it seems people are downloading without viewing :D. Yes I definitely agree, not that it matters much in the long run, I don't have sponsorship or anything, but unless people complain about these small things, bigger ones will also go unnoticed. However I have judged many projects on their statistics. I have lodged a direct email as well now on the topic. You will see in my graphic there was also a time where my downloads stats, were the same as the view stats flattering but highly unlikely.

Thingiverse seems to have growing pains where all the extra traffic has not been handled at scale to give users a pleasant experience. I am hoping the new cosmetic changes to the GUI also signal better designed database structures and adequate servers underneath.

I certainly don't mind the advertising if these things are addressed with the extra cash flow and not the provision of the CEO with a second flashy car, hahaha. Best wishes. I had a whole column of complains about statystics replaced by adds, but I'd deleted that part, as I did not want to be rude. There is realy nothing good that can be said about it. To think positive, I realy apreciate how quickly the pages of Thingiverse are downloaded now.

And I don't mind to see adds even on my own designs, if I will have the analytics back. Thank you for the workaround. I have been going crazy trying to find things on my browser and had resorted to searching on the app. Much appreciated!! I'm not sure if this new way of website is to deter ppl to use it or nor, I think if that is THE intention, you will succeed. ARE you guys realize you are destroying your great reputation?

I guess not VERY unhappy and will most likely use other sites! IMHO whoever the designer of the new Thingiverse has destroyed it!!! I can't find anything, enter a search term and get 10 with maybe one matching the search and that's it.

I used to spend hours looking at what people designed. I guess it time to look elsewhere because Thingiverse is useless, I mean really utterly totally absolutely useless!!!! Thanks for destroying my favorite web site! Tried your "solution", it doesn't work for me - I still only get 10 results from any search.

I agree with the other poster - Thingiverse has become useless when I can't see results. What happened?? Who can we contact about this? You can message admins and the like but IF you get a response, it will just say the normal "we're working on it" so its really not worth it.

I guess, this way will improve the speed and "solve" the SLOW thingiverse that we used to. How do i change my favorites on my profile page? For me it didn't have any favorites when I first joined. For me it usually takes several tries to get them to stick without changing when I refresh.

Go to edit profile, and scroll down to the thumbnails that you have in there and click remove when you hover over them. If there is no added photos yet, you can just add them in. Why is the "new" thigiverse design that bad? No search get more than 10 results. It is horrible. I cannot post in groups, since I'm a new member.

Do you know, how long it takes to get full access? A perfectly good website, although slow,, i could at least find what im looking for. Now, you can't get more than 10 things to pop up. Yall suck. With "explore things" and other searches there are only 10 results? Newest - 10 Results? This is very bad. Before the update, you could simply scroll through. Very convenient. Are you still changing that? So the update is very bad and uninteresting. So far this is not an improvement. This is crazy isn't it?

I have been fighting this "update" for weeks. It was bad enough they had the issues like site down, unresponsive, very, very slow, bad gateways, etc.

Bring back the old site, at least I only have to deal with speed issues, not lame ass design. What a large step back, very embarassing. They fixed the speed issues, its just they broke a bunch of features in the process, rendering the site mostly useless I couldn't have said it better, thanks for the reply. It's a hobby and hobbies are fun.

This makes the hobby not fun if you want to share or look at other makes. I really liked how it was before as far as design although for some reason my Chrome would always stall and repeat what I just seen as I was paging down. MS Edge didn't seem to do that as much if at all. I'm only just hopping on to the people-oriented side of thingiverse but I'm having a problem where my pictures in a make that I did aren't loading!

I stood by your side when others fled your interface in the past, but now you 'renewed' it, I don't see the point anymore.. Read a book on website ergonomics, and stop wanting to be fancy at the expense of site 'agility'. The world is changing Who knows what happened. Maybe they lost something, maybe something changed that we don't know about.

If so they should tell us but don't yell at them. Thousands of gigabytes and people burden this site every day and I can't tell you how much that would affect it but it would make sense to slow it down and cause other problems. Who knows? Maybe they stopped a different problem from developing and something worse would have gotten us.

What I do know is that they don't have enough staff and they should consider asking for help from users that are experienced in web development. Beta testing is also needed before releasing updates and they should have responsive admins that will keep us informed.

Thats my opinion but I try to stay as chill as possible and not rage at admins like other users do sometimes. I stayed chill for years, and still not consider myself as 'raging' but ok, perception is relative.. In their place, I would want to know. And reading further, I think you answered your own question: "they don't have enough staff and they should consider asking for help from users that are experienced in web development. True dat I wanna know what da fudge is going on back there Really would help if they made announcements or something.

What I meant by raging users is certain people do swear and curse at the admins for no apparent reason then the site was broken. Some people are just incredibly salty He said this is not the right forum for whining right? Ok so I would say something similar which means that I supported his comment : I hadn't realized what forum it was in so I noticed for the first time after he pointed it out. So I exclaimed: This is true! What do I get? STFU Nobody cares about your useless comments.

Everybody can tell without you posting useless comments. Something like that and definitely not exaggerated. Oh, agreed. I have no idea why they are using Twitter. Simply a banner with a message that the site is in transition and that it could take a month? I mean they have a banner for the coronavirus! Like, who needs that lol? Just kidding but seriously If you want money then please move to a subscription model, I am sure many people will happily pay a small fee to use this site.

But please, please, please, don't make it die a slow and horrible death. Someone somewhere, will come up with a better site than you. End users have loyalty to experience, don't test us! He is not active on here and he wont help or listen or reply to you. The search works fine now but it only shows 10 results. Thumbnails only sometimes don't load so its not an active problem. I think you can only see 10 items after search now. You can still see 10 items but its not a lot compared to before.

I mean you can browse collections and if you know exactly what you want, you can search for it and maybe it will come up in the 10 results. This might be a good time to learn how to design your own models while Thingiverse recovers and fixes the top 10 glitch. Try new programs and learn from youtube and start posting models so when the glitch is repaired, everybody can see your new models.

The use of the site has dropped dramatically from this glitch, even more so maybe than the irrelevant search glitch, which you could loophole and bypass. I don't like android lol They spy on you and record everything you do like google. Probably related to google I'm on a mac so I don't use Edge. And hands it to Google to do with what they will Apple is better quality than Samsung for sure.

Samsung is not the only Android company. There are many many companies all with various ranges of quality and price. Apple is overpriced for what it is. Google's intents with any data on you are far from malicious. They use data to determine content that you would like, making your searches more relevant and recommending YouTube videos that it thinks you would like.

Google is not the only company that tracks what you use their service for, Netflix, Hulu, and just about every streaming service does the same thing as a means to recommend shows and movies that you will enjoy. Considering that people have found past phone conversations they made encrypted on google just kinda prevents me from getting another after it happened several times.

A phone was brought to apple by the FBI and they asked apple to unlock it. They refused. It violated their privacy terms so they wouldn't do it even for the FBI. Recording my phone conversations? Thats just too much. No proof of apple ever doing it was found as far as I know. It failed Argue what you will, you wont change my mind. I am not going to try to make you change yours but thats my opinion.

People say apple is fragile. Thats why so many kids use android. Because they are too immature to not drop their phones all the time and try to break them because they don't know better.

If you can handle a quality piece of equipment buy apple, if you don't know how to hold on to a phone, then buy android. And don't test your "waterproof"ness that doesn't exist.

I'm not saying that apple is waterproof but don't lie to your customers. Not the "best" android! More expensive than the best apple Go figure I will place money on apple doing it too. I don't use an apple, so I don't know how the appstore looks, but if it has a recommended section anywhere, then you know that they do. One conspiracy article against google is not a reason to boycott it and move to substantially worse platforms that still have the same problem.

If you are really that conserned about privacy, do actual research. Remember, anything that google officially says has to be true, because if they make a statement conserning privacy, and it is found to be false, they will be faced with so many legal issues, and would be sued so hard they will be bankrupted.

Los desarrolladores tienen poco personal y fondos insuficientes. I am very new to this site, but i find that there are many broken links and it is sometimes Sloooooooooow.

Its opening in 3cm height working place. I can scroll model features in this, but cant see any preview, its complitely unusable. Please fix it ASAP. I research more support line and turnd out be here.

Just download Openscad. For a whole host of reasons, it's much better than Customizer ever was, even when it was working. Still 2 bugs : 1. When adding a thing to my collections i cannot see all my collections i created after the letter M. When clicking a thingiverse link from external app facebook, Otherwise very good job for now, thanks. Like I have told so many people, mikeliss won't answer questions because he no longer works at Makerbot.

If you read his profile he states that. He no longer has any importance on Thingiverse. I'm not sure if he uses TV at all but I doubt it. Either way, he doesn't care about Makerbot or their problems so he might as well have deleted his account and this topic considering that half the links are broken and go to other questions. Pls Fix This Web, Before the update sometimes work slow but after dont even go why you change it? Its super fast now actually.

I'm not even using any extensions for speed like others. It works as fast as before the update but there is still a lot of patching up to do. The user "mikeliss" won't help you with anything nor answer your questions.

Read this: mikeliss. You realize this guy hasn't answered any questions this page right? Read His Profile! Also on the main page, the models do not have information about the rating, popularity. Hate to be johhny raincloud but mikeliss left TV so he he will not be answering your questions about Makerbot or TV. He says this same thing on his profile. I don't know what is wrong with this page but it works horrible, everything was fine, before this stupid update, now is shit. I have problems with login, the page need very long time to load.

Developers, what is wrong with this site, what have you done! So like a big fan o thingiverse I hope this "search system" work good like the old one. Yes the search is not properly functioning due to the new update of the site. The user "mikeliss" who wrote this topic no longer works with thingiverse so he will not answer your questions.

Hi Thingiverse Before the new design the site was running very slow and sometimes it did not work After new design still very slow and more has come, "Search Thingiverse" dont work if you search for something let say Sidewinder x1 nothing show there is for that search and if you are so lucky to find something in the new design and want to download it you have to reload to get anything to show up Why did you update the site with something more bad or not even close to have been tested?

A user called "nosolab" is putting "adule site" links in the comments on all of my designs. How do I stop this? You can't ; Its a scripting bot masked by a user spamming it on thousands of published and unpublished models. I had this same crap on my models I had one of these comments pop up on one of my things. I flagged the comment but I would also like to know if there is more I could do. There is not much except keep annoying admins XD Just kidding, but its actually a bot because lets be honest.

The same comment, same user on thousands of models in a matter of hours? Nope, thats scripting masked by a user Il nuovo aggiornamento del sito ha impedito il corretto funzionamento della ricerca.

Se mi dici quello che stavi cercando, potrei essere in grado di aiutarti a trovarlo. The search system is completely broken. Some search terms do not yield any results even though I know the searched word is explicitly the name of a thing.

I urge MakerBot Industries to work on these issues as more and more people me included are moving to alternative websites to find 3d models. I understand that MakerBot Industries prefers to work on projects such as the new Sketch classroom which actually generate revenue. But would anyone consider buying this product when it comes from a company making a site this atrocious? Meh looks like he might as well delete his acc.

If he still uses his acc than thats pretty selfish of him not to help people with questions. Goodbye Thingiverse. After having enjoyed using Thingiverse for many years, it is time to choose a different platform for dropping my files and downloading nice things from others.

For about a year I used Thingiverse against my better judgment, hoping that there would be an update of the website that would make everything workable and fast again, but it does not seem that this update will ever come, so then it's time to look for alternatives.

I am not here to advertise one of these alternatives, I would not like that, but I will leave Thingiverse myself and in about a month, I will also remove my files on my account. People on Thingiverse, thank you for allowing me to enjoy your designs and thank you for giving my designs nice and useful criticism.

People from Thingiverse themselves, thank you for giving me all these great years on this website. You have made it possible for me to develop with 3D printing and you have done that without charging me a cent, my thanks for this. Without Thingiverse I would certainly not have got as far with my hobby as I am now, and that is why it hurts my heart to leave this website, but it is no longer sustainable to sometimes have to wait more than an hour for a download or a page refresh.

This is , but here it feels like , when I was still playing with a Baud modem. I cannot update my account profile, all i keep getting is "token expired" whenever I try to save the changes. If I want to contact a designer about his thing, there is the possibility to send a message through " messages" or "message me" However when I do that and want to send the message it says then "token expired" What can I do to avoid this and send the designer a normal message?

Are you using 56k modems? Carrier pigeon? It's downright horrible. Hello I am doing a school project on 3D printers and I wanted to estimate how many 3D printing home users there are in the world by the number of people registered to this site, can you tell how many users there are?

I haven't been able to access the customizer since yesterday. I keep getting the error message "We're sorry, but something went wrong. This is not just on one design, I've tried this on 3 different designs. I follow the Ender 3 group and there are some topics that have good information that I'd like to refer back to at a later date so I've clicked on "Follow" for these topics.

How do I find these topics that I'm "Following". I've gone to the Dashboard and looked under My Activity and Watchlist, but can't find the topics. Does anyone know? Thanks in advance. I suppose you could post an invitation in groups for related topics. But I would tread carefully, people like that Thingiverse is an add-free zone so anything that might be perceived as spam Quite the conundrum wrapped in an enigma.

Thanks for the information though. I did not know that it was supposed to be an ad free zone. I'm not sure if anyone of the supported files would allow this but wanted to see if anyone has had success in the past with doing this. It isn't possible. Even if the source files store that sort of data Thingiview would disregard it. It is taking "forever" for thumbnails of parts and images to appear after posting something. Is this is known problem?

Is someone working on it? Is it going to be better soon? It's very depressing - not just for my stuff I post - but every day there are dozens of things posted that I would like to see the pictures, but it has only the words. And, while you are fixing things, can you please prevent people posting videos as their first item?

It really slows down and sometimes goofs up the ability for browsers to scan through this top level. Yeah, me too.

I got some thumbnails to show up by including them in a comment, but they don't show in the normal place and I can't download any of my STL files either. But I already turned it off in my profile! How to turn it off once and for all??? Lately, maybe a week since it started, files are downloading as a zip with an 8 digit number. Is there something i need to fix at my end or is this the new way of things?

How do I get thingview to work for my image? Do I have to post the image? I just want to rotate the 3D image to view it from all angles? Other users have been adding unwanted tags to the item. Recently someone added a tag of "poop" and a few that were even worse. I edited the thing to remove the tags.

Is there a way to stop others from adding tags to an item? Or do I have to continuously keep monitoring and cleaning up after rude people? Also, is there a way to see who added the tags or even get a notification when edits are made? Why haven't I been able to see files in Thingiview in weeks?! Some of the older items that I have saved still have the option, but in the last few weeks, I haven't been able to use it! I have a question on Remixes how do I give credit to their design I understand most of it I just don't know how to put in the design in question.

I think the text under "How do Topics get pinned? It seems to be a duplicate of what's under "I found an offensive Thing that I don't think should be on Thingiverse, what should I do? Is this site really slow for anyone else?

Using this site on multiple computers and phones it is almost impossible at times. Its getting rediculous! Also is there a way to delete my things more than one at a time? I have so many unpublished "customized" things that need to be cleaned up. I have noticed a big slowdown for about 90 to days now. AKA, the site is growing like a weed, where in they passed 1M Things, and now it's up to 3. Plus the user base has likely grown as well. Sometimes a provider can be prompted to help determine the bottleneck or scaling issues.

DB , Disk, Distribution, Caching, etc. So caching could save a lot of DB queries, for example That would make it easier to track the things I DL I have over 40 creations posted and am very unhappy with the sites performance. I will find a new home if something isn't done quickly. Horrendously slow, I tried the ghostery extension to block the analytics but it still takes 15 seconds or so for the page to load and thats without most of the pictures.

Why is this website so slow??? There is typically so much to learn that it can be overwhelming at times. One of the first things people tend to want to do after printing the test prints from the SD card is to find more things to print.

The most common source for free 3d objects is Thingiverse. There are a couple of things that I would recommend you do before kicking off any prints that are meant for anything besides testing. The first thing we want to do is go to Thingiverse and choose something that you want to print.

If your just getting started, I would recommend starting with a Temperatur Tower to get the right printing temperature for the filament you are using. A really good starter print is the Benchy, so we will use that as an example in this article. Now we want to download the STL file for the Benchy.

Make sure you make a note of where you download the file to. Now that we have the file that we want to print, we need to slice it. To do this we will need to import it into Cura. This can be done in one of two ways.

Once the object s are in Cura, you will want to select the profile you want to print with, review the settings specifically around temperate and supports , then click slice. Once you reviewed everything, you will want to save the file to your SD card.

This can be done by having Cura save to removable drive if you only have one. If you have more than one, you will want to switch it to save to file, then save the file to the SD card you want to use. Once the g-code file is on the SD card, you will want to put it in the printer then kick off the print.

On the Ender 3, its on the front left of the printer. Where else can I get STL files from? Some sites offer them for free and others charge for them. Here are four alternatives to Thingiverse.