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Where do you prefer to host your models? Thingiverse, Printables, Thangs, ... (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by scross01@lemmy.ca to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] DichotoDeezNutz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use thangs.com

[–] scross01@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any particular reason why Thangs? I like the search, but I find the model management is not as intuitive

[–] DichotoDeezNutz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was watching Zach Friedman on the Voidstar Labs YT channel and he was hosting gridfinity there.

I like the search feature, but I don't upload all that often. You can always cross post against all of the sites.

MyMiniFactory is also good.

[–] glittalogik@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Zack's Gridfinity vids were the reason I bought a printer in the first place so Thangs was my first stop, and I love that their search also indexes Printables/Thingiverse/Cults3D/etc.

Printables has the best UI and community engagement though. Seriously, in 2023 there's no excuse for your website not having a dark mode option.