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.

  • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The “some issue” people had with thingiverse was that their Terms of Service gave Makerbot irrevocable license to use your models, patent your models, distribute and sublicense your models, and make money from your models without compensation or attribution to you.

    • monotremata@kbin.social
      2·
      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.