Hey everyone, we appreciate all the enthusiasm and support for our MakerWorld China site! We’re just as thrilled as you are to start this amazing journey with our expanding community of Chinese makers. Let’s dive into some of your questions in this post.
You will have access to our Chinese site starting on 6/18.
Certainly, we intend to offer translation services for your model descriptions, uploads, and the comment section. This will create a smooth connection for you to interact with our Chinese users.
We believe that Chinese designers contributes a unique collection of models that will enrich the diversity of our current community. By bridging this gap with MakerWorld China, we hope to inspire the creation of more remarkable models through the dynamic collaboration and mixture of designers worldwide.
Let us know if you have any other questions! Thanks
Downloads and prints are tracked individually for our Global and Chinese sites. Nonetheless, any points you earn on MakerWorld China will be synced to your MakerWorld Global account for your use.
From what I’ve heard, DeepL is the most accurate as far as accurately translating proper modern languages with correct dialects.
I’ve had more people say “What are you saying?” when using google translate or they just laugh because it made zero sense lol. But never an issue with DeepL
If you have time to answer the following questions, it would be greatly appreciated:
In your news, you referred to this step as ‘expanding,’ but from my understanding, Chinese users are already on makerworld.com. Is makerworld.com only accessible via VPN?
Why is the site being split into two regions? Are there regulatory constraints regarding business operations in China that make this step necessary?
I am asking out of curiosity. Thank you in advance!
I speak three languages fluently, so I can tell you with authority that Google translate is absolutely fine to get the general gist of something, but you never want to use it for any serious conversation, lol.
chat gpt seems pretty good on translation ,but I don’t know if it speaks chinese, i’m gonna try.
edit : There is one of my creation updated with chinese chatgpt translation, can somebody that speaks it tell me if it’s any good? Modular Spool Storage Solution
I am still confused about the translations. Do we need to provide translations or will bambulab take care of it but maybe not with the best translation engine? Do i understand it correctly?
Of course, I am aware of this, but in a globalized world in which we all live, it made no sense to start a makerspace with reach at the state level again.
The Chinese can simply upload their stuff to Makerworld.com, what’s the problem?
I can honestly say I didn’t know china had to have it’s own domain but it’s more so probably having to work with background logistics such as the servers hosting model files and print setting data.
Bambu Labs would need a very large server to host both China & everywhere else which making these separate more than likely prevented any server downtime and/or server lag. Whose to say that china based users also are on the same versions as everywhere else?
I don’t mind it at all. Well deserved for them and everyone.
I’m pretty sure I seen them state something along the lines of the transition happening with waves of users at a time versus everyone all at once. I’d wait it out a bit longer or just keep checking in.
Maybe they’re still migrating users or you didn’t find it since they tack on GLB_ in front of the username. As an example, mine shows up as @GLB_RandomKhaos on the Chinese MakerWorld instead of @RandomKhaos like on the main website.
I did notice one of my models didn’t transfer over, though that may be due to lack of downloads and being too simple of a design.
Went snooping around and after a quick search i found my user name but they added a GLB (i think it means Global) and my models are there… atleast some. There are a few missing, don’t know why.
But it works, hopefully it will boost everyones models… don’t have high hopes since china is known for having no intelectual respect over anything but we’ll see how it goes
Edit: after going there again to see what models were missing i found that they are in between models there and others not. Some are old, some are new… can @BambuLab clarify why there are models missing?
It’s politics. There’s a number of larger web operators that can’t operate in China, or have a separate version of their product for the Chinese market. I was frankly surprised they are doing a merge/cross like this. I imagine there’s a lot of content on Makerworld that isn’t entirely legal on the Chinese version of the website.