The entire 3D printing community has switched to discord
there is no more forum, blogs or something else; even reddit was not able to compete with discord, and that was before the blackout in June. Since then, a lot of 3D printing subreddits are closed or only accessible in archive mode.
So what does it means in practice?
I have 30 different discord servers on the 3D printing topic (across the others i use for gaming or friends), each with 50+ different channels, not counting subchannels. For the Voron 3D Printing, i have the official Discord + 4 other fans discords including 3 in my local language. You cannot read everything, as chats are mixing high quality information but also random chats not usefull.
Some discords are only available if you pay a montly fee on Patreon
Some discords are completely empty but make a "news announcement" some times to times that is not published elsewhere that is why i keep them in my list
You have to manually pickup the notification otherwise some servers are constantly spamming.
Of course you cannot search across all discords at the same time and discord is picky with typos so if you search "pizze" across the pizza-discordverse you will get nothing
specifically for each precise component reference, you have to search the servers 1 by 1, this is really painfull
Discord is trying to create their version of reddit threads but that is shitty and not usefull in practice
It was a fantastic platform back to the covid period but now it's becoming very complex and not usable; the main pain point is that (as instagram) is it not indexed on any search engine.
As a project manager (whatever it means) in a big organization with 1000 apps, i often describe myself as a plumber at least the 1st sentence: what do you do? IT plumber in a big corpo
news are only a small part of BB
Also, News are highly filtered and considered maximal quality, from best news agencies across the world including BB itself
"News" also contains all companies corporate news, results and also technical ones such as corporate actions (dividends, dividends forecast, etc).
twitter is not really a competitor here
I'm very happy with my old t440 bought for cheap on ebay, just replaced the screen with an IPS
I highly recommend this blog, same kind of information than on the link given today, but focused on T440
https://octoperf.com/blog/2018/11/07/thinkpad-t440p-buyers-g...
It is exactly one of the starting points of this uchrony, Civilizations from Laurent Binet (in french, i believe not translated to english), where native get sick during first venue of Vikings then when Colombus appears they just don't get sick at all + kill him and get to Portugal back on their boats and then travel in Europe, meet Luther, Erasme & Charles Quint, convert people to Sun god religion and create an Empire in Europe.
Good book btw
I have 30 different discord servers on the 3D printing topic (across the others i use for gaming or friends), each with 50+ different channels, not counting subchannels. For the Voron 3D Printing, i have the official Discord + 4 other fans discords including 3 in my local language. You cannot read everything, as chats are mixing high quality information but also random chats not usefull.
Some discords are only available if you pay a montly fee on Patreon Some discords are completely empty but make a "news announcement" some times to times that is not published elsewhere that is why i keep them in my list You have to manually pickup the notification otherwise some servers are constantly spamming.
Of course you cannot search across all discords at the same time and discord is picky with typos so if you search "pizze" across the pizza-discordverse you will get nothing specifically for each precise component reference, you have to search the servers 1 by 1, this is really painfull Discord is trying to create their version of reddit threads but that is shitty and not usefull in practice
It was a fantastic platform back to the covid period but now it's becoming very complex and not usable; the main pain point is that (as instagram) is it not indexed on any search engine.