I’ve only noticed this in the last few days or week. I did try contacting the moderator, but as yet no response. So, now I’m casting a wider net. Anyone else noticing this?
I thought I had done something wrong when I experienced those.
One more for your list.
Notifications in my experience have always been hit or miss with forums running discourse. (Mainly getting them via Email)
What fixed it for me (temporarily most of the times) in the past was to disable and then re-enable the notifications.
Yes there seems to be issues and I suspect it might have to do with the hosting server being moved?
I’ve noticed this as well. A work around is to right click the picture and open in another window. This will normally allow you to zoom into the original.
I didn’t get anything? Perhaps related to the problem?
I’ve also noticed that the little “avatar” bubbles are not updating correctly.
There are a dozen or so different people in that thread but only 2 avatars are listed.
I credit this forum with being one of the reasons to own a Bambulab printer. If it becomes dysfunctional, it would be almost like nuking the user base–at least from my perspective, and I can only assume others share the same view. I hope the relevant parties to the changes are aware of the stakes and remedy whatever is going wrong soon.
Yes, good point that it shows it at the bottom of the thread correctly, but on the main page it only shows one.
Oddly enough you can still DM .3mf files.
Yeah, I am only seeing two, the numbers clearly show it knows there should be more.
I try not to promote this for two reasons:
I’m seeing all of them.
This is the kind of erratic behavior one often sees in a complex software system right before a major crash. Just sayin’. Indexes are corrupted. Pointers are lost. Who knows what, but it only gets worse until either it gets corrected or the decoherence becomes so bad that the result is total failure, lost data, etc.
We are talking about the category list view of all topics, not the top or bottom of this specific topic.
Confirmed. That part definitely not working correctly:
Numerous people replied, but no avatar icons for them are shown.
I’m less concerned about that though than the mostly missing notifications.
Yeah, it is symptomatic of the larger problem.
The tech is falling over, maybe this is on purpose, as the forum does highlight issues at BL, MW, and now CB.
The basic decency of the forum has taken a recent hit.
Each of these is against the forum guidelines.
One more:
Community Guidelines are not enforced
Moderators (who know who you are) have been informed and have done nothing.
At this point, you have to wonder if it is complacency or aimed at assisting the perpetrators.
Those are some pretty hefty claims.
Let’s remember that every story has two sided to it and a text based medium can easily foster misunderstandings.
If notifications get fixed, that’s good enough for me.
Or more correctly.
Those are some pretty hefty FACTS.
Degraded is a relative thing…
Bambu seems to make quite a few changes in the background that are aimed on making things better.
And for things like spam prevention it seems to work well…
MalcTheOracle made valid points…
From where I am standing I can only say that I have seen this before a few times…
Quite a few companies provide a ‘community run’ forum to avoid excessive support times and costs.
More often than not the size of such a forum quickly keeps running out of the design constraints…
More server space is required together with higher bandwidths and of course the forum software keeps getting things added all the time…
What ruins such forums, which often started surprisingly well and with responsive users is the backbone structure of the human kind.
It is great to have categories and sub-forums within in them…
But once quantity trumps quality things start to go down the drain…
Every week we see the same type of questions asked in new topics…
Simply because those users either can’t find a match, have no time or can’t be bothered.
No surprise really if those topics with the most solutions and fixes are not even pinned.
No pinned topic that lists topics of great interest either…
Literally everything that makes a forum a good one is missing - from the human backend side of things…
Before I cleaned up house and ended my time at Instructables I had a lengthy Email exchange with their support team.
For some reason they did not like the idea that one very supportive user after the other left the forum and for the always same reasons.
Part of this exchange was their actual support capacity for their ‘community’ forum.
So I asked “How many people are paid to maintain the forum and ensure it stays clean?”
‘We have a very dedicated team assigned to the forum.’
“Dedication is great but only any good if it is based on knowledge and if there is enough people to deal with the workload, so how many are there”
‘We have a team of four people, plus the IT team for the server works…’
The one thing those running a forum need to do is to LISTEN to their users…
I don’t see with Bambu and I don’t see how a fast growing forum can stay clean and organised if there does not seem to be the required man power to make it happen.
I was contacted three times by people with an elevated status here in regards to changing my username.
Did not see point in doing so if Bambu does not provide this basic feature for users in some easy to find and use option…
As I am quite good with hardware and problem solving I contacted Bambu to check if they have anything in place in the area of fulltime moderator or such.
Seems to be quite possible to get a higher status with more options in the forum but in terms of offering a PAID option to make the time spent worth it…
Lets just say it is easier to explain the colour red to a person born blind than to explain to Bambu that paying people to provide support in the forum could be of benefit… LOL
Their expectations are sky high, their offers low enough to pass through under the carpet without even lifting it 
Just a general FYI that the @ function doesn’t send notifications.
I have never done Discourse admin or support but it seems there are several layers involved that could impact how it functions. From what I can tell Discourse provides the software to whomever. They set up their forum and maintain it, design it with CSS or whatever code. Discourse pushes out updates. So say you are using an “official” Discourse theme for the look of your forum, updates should not cause an issue. If you are using a 3rd party supplied theme the update may break some of your CSS and cause changes in your theme look and or functionality. The 3rd party supplier then needs to tweak the theme, assuming they are even still interested in doing that.
I did used to support a couple of Atlassian products that had similar issues. Atlassian provided the core software, A lot of the things that made the product really usefull were user created plugins. Atlassian was an “Agile” shop which meant they pushed out updates often and broke things often. People who created the plugins were either also providing updates very often, gave up and the plugin would stop functioning or they would change to charging but providing maintenance. When Atlassian changed from you running their software on your server to SAAS (software as a service) running in their “cloud” things got even worse ( from MY stand point).
This was a long pointless way of saying forum issues could be in or out of BLs controll.
Did a new update go live? I just received multiple notifications from 21 day old replies.
Same here. I’m guessing they fixed something behind the scenes. Outside of the really old notifications, the forum appears to be acting normally for me again.
