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MaddieG3D Hubs Employees
Jul '18

To our 3D Hubs community,

Over the past 5 years the Talk online 3D printing community has grown a lot. In fact, we have grown so much that we have completely outgrown our current forum tool. That’s why we’ve decided to move to a smarter, more intuitive, more feature-rich, and more scalable system powered by the open-source forum management tool: Discourse 45. 45

While we’re doing this migration we’re going to be (finally) cleaning up a lot of the spam comments and threads. With the new tool we’ll benefit a lot from much more sophisticated spam prevention, which is arguably the most requested feature by our users, especially after the previous spam prevention tool we used, mollom 5, 5 went out of business earlier this year.

Along with this migration to the new platform comes a host of great new features to help improve how we all use Talk. This includes a more organized category and tag structure, along with badges (that’s right, badges are coming back) and the ability to have community moderators in the future.

Now that we also offer CNC Machining and Injection Molding, we’ll also have a place to have discussions related to these manufacturing technologies in addition to 3D Printing, 3D Modeling, and more!

Finally, going forward I’ll be the dedicated 3D Hubs team member for growing and moderating Talk. Some of you may recognize me; I’ve been with 3D Hubs since 2016, first as a Hub and for the last year as part of the support team.

Starting this coming Monday, the old Talk platform will be in read-only move while we complete the full move to Discourse.

We hope you’re excited for this new move as we are!

Best,

Maddie and the 3D Hubs Team

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keebie81
Aug '18

Thats great that improvements are happening but I consider discourse the same as facebook, not good. Requires an account to look at and the useful information is not searchable by google and such. So if someone is trying to fix an issue they will likely never find the helpful information.

gawin3D Hubs Employees
Aug '18

Hi @keebie81, thank you for your comment! We feel it’s important to keep Talk an open platform. Unlike Facebook, we will not require an account to view information. We optimized the new Talk platform so search engines, like Google, will continue to be able to find all the helpful information. To make the migration easier we will redirect all old Talk links to the new Talk platform, therefore any bookmarks you made will also keep on working.

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