I did note the following comment in a recent thread: Maybe we need a new section, entitled 'Gene's Blog', or something. The fact remains, although this is now not about openscad I will provide some guidance regarding appropriate usage of the Mailing-list separately. I also note Gene's comment: > > This thread is getting way off-topic for OpenSCAD Support! > > No argument there. But I've done several net searches for a mailing list > for such conversations without getting a hit yet. > > And since OpenSCAD is so well suited for building something we can slice > and make, here I am. In an endeavour to reduce some of the off-topic content I would like your suggestions for sites better suited to 3D printing, designing for 3D printing, printing problems, specific issues with or comments on particular printers, sharing projects and of a more community nature. When I first started a long time ago, with my first printer, an original Kickstarter Printrbot, the printrbottalk.com Forum was a wide ranging community of that nature, I hadn't been there for quite some time, it now seems defunct, not much traffic and technical faults with the site. I don't have the time to live on such community sites, so haven't been looking for them. So, could we have suggestion for such, with bonus cred for those with some OpenSCAD flavour. I will endeavour to curate the results to add to the OpenSCAD.org web site, somewhere. A brief description of each would help. MichaelAtOz -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com

Since getting my Ender 3 V2 in March and installing OpenSCAD a week or so later I've had help in a few places as well as here. I have in mind the adage 'horses for courses'. Overclockers UK > 3D Printing ----------------------------- https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/community/3d-printing.182/ Low traffic. UK dominated of course. For miscellaneous conversation it has a thread 'Random 3D printing chatter'. Reddit ------ Very high traffic and large number of experienced users. US dominated. Despite its adverts and other distractions I've warmed to it. Categories allow foucus, e.g: https://www.reddit.com/r/openscad/ https://www.reddit.com/r/3dprint/ https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Cura/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ender3/ https://www.reddit.com/r/FixMyPrint/ https://www.reddit.com/r/functionalprint/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Inkscape/ Cura Forum ---------- https://community.ultimaker.com/forum/108-ultimaker-cura/ Obviously of relevance to me and there are of course similar forums for other slicers This hasn't been updated for over a year but may be useful. https://www.facebook.com/groups/makerbot/?ref=br_rs Ideally I'd like a Usenet newsgroup. Although I haven't searched yet, I think they have fallen out of favour over the last decade, with forums generally preferred. Terry ==================== On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 16:36:59 +1000, you wrote: >I did note the following comment in a recent thread: > > > >Maybe we need a new section, entitled 'Gene's Blog', or something. The > >fact remains, although this is now not about openscad > > > >I will provide some guidance regarding appropriate usage of the Mailing-list separately. > > > >I also note Gene's comment: > > > >> > This thread is getting way off-topic for OpenSCAD Support! > >> > >> No argument there. But I've done several net searches for a mailing list > >> for such conversations without getting a hit yet. > >> > >> And since OpenSCAD is so well suited for building something we can slice > >> and make, here I am. > > > >In an endeavour to reduce some of the off-topic content I would like your suggestions for sites >better suited > >to 3D printing, designing for 3D printing, printing problems, specific issues with or comments on >particular printers, > >sharing projects and of a more community nature. > > > >When I first started a long time ago, with my first printer, an original Kickstarter Printrbot, > >the printrbottalk.com Forum was a wide ranging community of that nature, I hadn't been there > >for quite some time, it now seems defunct, not much traffic and technical faults with the site. > >I don't have the time to live on such community sites, so haven't been looking for them. > > > >So, could we have suggestion for such, with bonus cred for those with some OpenSCAD flavour. > >I will endeavour to curate the results to add to the OpenSCAD.org web site, somewhere. > > > >A brief description of each would help. > > > >MichaelAtOz > >

On Thu, 2021-07-08 at 10:15 +0100, Terry wrote: > Since getting my Ender 3 V2 in March and installing OpenSCAD a week > or so later I've had help in a few places as well as here. > I have in mind the adage 'horses for courses'. For those that don't easily translate British to American: different stokes for different folks, or to each his own > > Ideally I'd like a Usenet newsgroup. Although I haven't searched yet, > I think they have fallen out of favour over the last decade, with > forums generally preferred. Usenet groups became Google Groups. https://groups.google.com/u/1/search?q=openscad There currently aren't many OpenSCAD groups, but it's certainly easy to create one.

Sorry to return to this gripe again but... Do other (gmail users only?) subscribers to this list not find it a PITA that they must read threads like this without their own posts appearing? My reply this morning (10:15) is still not in my 'OpenSCAD emails' inbox. Same with another post this morning to 'view screwed up'. I'll paste it again: -------------------- Since getting my Ender 3 V2 in March and installing OpenSCAD a week or so later I've had help in a few places as well as here. I have in mind the adage 'horses for courses'. Overclockers UK > 3D Printing ----------------------------- https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/community/3d-printing.182/ Low traffic. UK dominated of course. For miscellaneous conversation it has a thread 'Random 3D printing chatter'. Reddit ------ Very high traffic and large number of experienced users. US dominated. Despite its adverts and other distractions I've warmed to it. Categories allow foucus, e.g: https://www.reddit.com/r/openscad/ https://www.reddit.com/r/3dprint/ https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Cura/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ender3/ https://www.reddit.com/r/FixMyPrint/ https://www.reddit.com/r/functionalprint/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Inkscape/ Cura Forum ---------- https://community.ultimaker.com/forum/108-ultimaker-cura/ Obviously of relevance to me and there are of course similar forums for other slicers This hasn't been updated for over a year but may be useful. https://www.facebook.com/groups/makerbot/?ref=br_rs Ideally I'd like a Usenet newsgroup. Although I haven't searched yet, I think they have fallen out of favour over the last decade, with forums generally preferred. Terry ==================== On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 16:36:59 +1000, you wrote: >I did note the following comment in a recent thread: > > > >Maybe we need a new section, entitled 'Gene's Blog', or something. The > >fact remains, although this is now not about openscad > > > >I will provide some guidance regarding appropriate usage of the Mailing-list separately. > > > >I also note Gene's comment: > > > >> > This thread is getting way off-topic for OpenSCAD Support! > >> > >> No argument there. But I've done several net searches for a mailing list > >> for such conversations without getting a hit yet. > >> > >> And since OpenSCAD is so well suited for building something we can slice > >> and make, here I am. > > > >In an endeavour to reduce some of the off-topic content I would like your suggestions for sites >better suited > >to 3D printing, designing for 3D printing, printing problems, specific issues with or comments on >particular printers, > >sharing projects and of a more community nature. > > > >When I first started a long time ago, with my first printer, an original Kickstarter Printrbot, > >the printrbottalk.com Forum was a wide ranging community of that nature, I hadn't been there > >for quite some time, it now seems defunct, not much traffic and technical faults with the site. > >I don't have the time to live on such community sites, so haven't been looking for them. > > > >So, could we have suggestion for such, with bonus cred for those with some OpenSCAD flavour. > >I will endeavour to curate the results to add to the OpenSCAD.org web site, somewhere. > > > >A brief description of each would help. > > > >MichaelAtOz > >

I am a gmail user and my own posts do show up in threads. On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 at 16:09, Terry <terrypingm@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry to return to this gripe again but... Do other (gmail users only?) > subscribers to this list not find it a PITA that they must read threads > like this without their own posts appearing? > > My reply this morning (10:15) is still not in my 'OpenSCAD emails' > inbox. Same with another post this morning to 'view screwed up'. I'll > paste it again: > -------------------- > Since getting my Ender 3 V2 in March and installing OpenSCAD a week or > so later I've had help in a few places as well as here. > > I have in mind the adage 'horses for courses'. > > > Overclockers UK > 3D Printing > ----------------------------- > https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/community/3d-printing.182/ > Low traffic. UK dominated of course. For miscellaneous conversation it > has a thread 'Random 3D printing chatter'. > > Reddit > ------ > Very high traffic and large number of experienced users. US dominated. > Despite its adverts and other distractions I've warmed to it. Categories > allow foucus, e.g: > https://www.reddit.com/r/openscad/ > https://www.reddit.com/r/3dprint/ > https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/ > https://www.reddit.com/r/Cura/ > https://www.reddit.com/r/ender3/ > https://www.reddit.com/r/FixMyPrint/ > https://www.reddit.com/r/functionalprint/ > https://www.reddit.com/r/Inkscape/ > > Cura Forum > ---------- > https://community.ultimaker.com/forum/108-ultimaker-cura/ > Obviously of relevance to me and there are of course similar forums for > other slicers > > > This hasn't been updated for over a year but may be useful. > https://www.facebook.com/groups/makerbot/?ref=br_rs > > > Ideally I'd like a Usenet newsgroup. Although I haven't searched yet, I > think they have fallen out of favour over the last decade, with forums > generally preferred. > > Terry > > ==================== > > > > > On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 16:36:59 +1000, you wrote: > > >I did note the following comment in a recent thread: > > > > > > > >Maybe we need a new section, entitled 'Gene's Blog', or something. The > > > >fact remains, although this is now not about openscad > > > > > > > >I will provide some guidance regarding appropriate usage of the > Mailing-list separately. > > > > > > > >I also note Gene's comment: > > > > > > > >> > This thread is getting way off-topic for OpenSCAD Support! > > > >> > > > >> No argument there. But I've done several net searches for a mailing list > > > >> for such conversations without getting a hit yet. > > > >> > > > >> And since OpenSCAD is so well suited for building something we can slice > > > >> and make, here I am. > > > > > > > >In an endeavour to reduce some of the off-topic content I would like your > suggestions for sites > >better suited > > > >to 3D printing, designing for 3D printing, printing problems, specific > issues with or comments on > >particular printers, > > > >sharing projects and of a more community nature. > > > > > > > >When I first started a long time ago, with my first printer, an original > Kickstarter Printrbot, > > > >the printrbottalk.com Forum was a wide ranging community of that nature, > I hadn't been there > > > >for quite some time, it now seems defunct, not much traffic and technical > faults with the site. > > > >I don't have the time to live on such community sites, so haven't been > looking for them. > > > > > > > >So, could we have suggestion for such, with bonus cred for those with > some OpenSCAD flavour. > > > >I will endeavour to curate the results to add to the OpenSCAD.org web > site, somewhere. > > > > > > > >A brief description of each would help. > > > > > > > >MichaelAtOz > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >

Like this: [image: image.png] On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 at 16:21, nop head <nop.head@gmail.com> wrote: > I am a gmail user and my own posts do show up in threads. > > On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 at 16:09, Terry <terrypingm@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sorry to return to this gripe again but... Do other (gmail users only?) >> subscribers to this list not find it a PITA that they must read threads >> like this without their own posts appearing? >> >> My reply this morning (10:15) is still not in my 'OpenSCAD emails' >> inbox. Same with another post this morning to 'view screwed up'. I'll >> paste it again: >> -------------------- >> Since getting my Ender 3 V2 in March and installing OpenSCAD a week or >> so later I've had help in a few places as well as here. >> >> I have in mind the adage 'horses for courses'. >> >> >> Overclockers UK > 3D Printing >> ----------------------------- >> https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/community/3d-printing.182/ >> Low traffic. UK dominated of course. For miscellaneous conversation it >> has a thread 'Random 3D printing chatter'. >> >> Reddit >> ------ >> Very high traffic and large number of experienced users. US dominated. >> Despite its adverts and other distractions I've warmed to it. Categories >> allow foucus, e.g: >> https://www.reddit.com/r/openscad/ >> https://www.reddit.com/r/3dprint/ >> https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/ >> https://www.reddit.com/r/Cura/ >> https://www.reddit.com/r/ender3/ >> https://www.reddit.com/r/FixMyPrint/ >> https://www.reddit.com/r/functionalprint/ >> https://www.reddit.com/r/Inkscape/ >> >> Cura Forum >> ---------- >> https://community.ultimaker.com/forum/108-ultimaker-cura/ >> Obviously of relevance to me and there are of course similar forums for >> other slicers >> >> >> This hasn't been updated for over a year but may be useful. >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/makerbot/?ref=br_rs >> >> >> Ideally I'd like a Usenet newsgroup. Although I haven't searched yet, I >> think they have fallen out of favour over the last decade, with forums >> generally preferred. >> >> Terry >> >> ==================== >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 16:36:59 +1000, you wrote: >> >> >I did note the following comment in a recent thread: >> > >> > >> > >> >Maybe we need a new section, entitled 'Gene's Blog', or something. The >> > >> >fact remains, although this is now not about openscad >> > >> > >> > >> >I will provide some guidance regarding appropriate usage of the >> Mailing-list separately. >> > >> > >> > >> >I also note Gene's comment: >> > >> > >> > >> >> > This thread is getting way off-topic for OpenSCAD Support! >> > >> >> >> > >> >> No argument there. But I've done several net searches for a mailing >> list >> > >> >> for such conversations without getting a hit yet. >> > >> >> >> > >> >> And since OpenSCAD is so well suited for building something we can >> slice >> > >> >> and make, here I am. >> > >> > >> > >> >In an endeavour to reduce some of the off-topic content I would like >> your suggestions for sites >> >better suited >> > >> >to 3D printing, designing for 3D printing, printing problems, specific >> issues with or comments on >> >particular printers, >> > >> >sharing projects and of a more community nature. >> > >> > >> > >> >When I first started a long time ago, with my first printer, an original >> Kickstarter Printrbot, >> > >> >the printrbottalk.com Forum was a wide ranging community of that >> nature, I hadn't been there >> > >> >for quite some time, it now seems defunct, not much traffic and >> technical faults with the site. >> > >> >I don't have the time to live on such community sites, so haven't been >> looking for them. >> > >> > >> > >> >So, could we have suggestion for such, with bonus cred for those with >> some OpenSCAD flavour. >> > >> >I will endeavour to curate the results to add to the OpenSCAD.org web >> site, somewhere. >> > >> > >> > >> >A brief description of each would help. >> > >> > >> > >> >MichaelAtOz >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenSCAD mailing list >> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >> >