I think i would help less porpular models, cause they quickly disapear in the void in “new uploads” if a Random page were there, all models gets shuffled.
It is very discouraging for the enthusiasm of hobbyists. In the future, MakerWorld may evolve into a platform where only top-tier authors share models, while those at the bottom either share even lower-quality models or stop sharing altogether, since the benefits they receive are so low. The official approach should be to increase rewards for professional designers, rather than stripping away the incentives for hobbyists to share their creations.
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Strongly disagree. While there are some clever, creative and fun unpopular models out there that deserve more exposure, the vast majority of unpopular models are unpopular for a reason. The last thing anyone should see on the MakerWorld front page is useless, low effort models.
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This is just cost saving, which is fine, but then at least be open about it. BL has been very generous with the point system leading to building a big new ecosystem quickly with loyal designers publishing quality models exclusively. I’ve personally used my points as a motivation to create new unique designs and publish them regularly, where they are then spent on filament orders so I can print and show them as well. With this new system it’s simply a halving of income from this - which is okay but it will have a consequence when it comes to the growth and quality of the platform. While I’ll remain active as a designer on MW with MW exclusives I won’t be spending as much time on it as I have done in the past few months given it’s simply not worth it at < half the rewards given how much time and filament I use all the time trying to perfect them.
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got ya, thought you were talking about today’s update.
Deleted since I didn’t read the starting post properly. Sorry!
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Yes, it’s all described in the first post in this thread
You are right, I focused on the boosts only. I currently have a severe cold with fever so my brain is working at 50% only. I shouldn’t post then …
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Come on man, that had to of taken serious thought to model… Like were talkin it’s probably 13,000,000 triangles so at least it’s a hi density mesh 
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Too late to download it now, MW took it 
I like the initiative, but I don’t think people will take it seriously. The majority of users are still only interested in 2 things. It should be free and as trendy as possible.
Designers are hardly appreciated. Only a small part of people can even give feedback. The free like, which is 1 click, is used by 1-5% of people.
I am sure that Bambu is in a very difficult situation because it is not easy to compensate the designers and also to compensate the users.
As a designer, I have no desire to make a 180th type of flexi kite because it is still downloaded by thousands. If a model already has 2 panels, 70% of people do not print it. He will definitely not boost…he won’t even give a miserable like…
It often takes weeks to design, print, photograph and test a more complex model. What we publish for free. And the whole thing is unprofitable. I will be curious to see what will develop from this, but if this goes like this, many designers like me will stop doing this.
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This was exactly how I felt when I read the new “incentive”… I read the blog post and became even more wary of where BL’s plans are with MakerWorld. Simply hinting or even suggesting a “Paywall” is disgusting… I’m not quite sure who the team consist of or who sat down and agreed this was what MW needed and what the majority of the user base clearly wanted but this essentially hurt the system more than anything.
They asked us for suggestions back in January, I don’t see anyone talking about a “Boost” nor hinting at anything similar along those lines. My suggestion was either lowering the $$ amount of the gift card - then adding physical items instead, like you stated it takes filament to generate models for MW, Luckily running a business I have a surplus of filament (pallet) invested in. But not of colorful and silky ones…
This could’ve easily cut botting down by a decent percentage due to them not having any use for tangible items that they couldn’t resell on ebay and other ecommerce.
- 1x PLA Gradient (280)
- Complete Nozzle X1 Series (330)
- $15 Gift Card (215-allowed redemption 10x/year)
blah blah blah… point is if they REALLY sat down and discussed this with actual thought and process. They wouldn’t have settled on “Boost” being the key to solving any issue or incentive… there’s so many other ways around their system versus “Nerfing” reward points as a whole…
This sucks man.
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Preach, 
If my dad bought a bambu labs printer and even managed to navigate his way to MakerWorld he wouldn’t like, follow, “Boost” or collect… he simply wouldn’t know that system and what comes of it because at the end of the day it’s Download > slice > print > repeat.
UI is the favorable thing today along with ease of access. get straight to the point without the filler and bs. 0-100. Only if it affects them does 1 take the time to backtrack and make a statement.
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My biggest concern here is also the compensation and the resulting problem. I mean, of all Model-Platforms, MakerWorld already has the worst retention. I get easily 4-5 times more interactions/downloads on the other platforms, like Printables and Thingivers (yes, even there). So my work on MakerWorld already has pretty poor reach and comparable no visibility. And now they cut of the only thing that made I worth to upload models.
So in conclusion: MakerWorld has way less active users, way less models and most of the people are using Thinigverse and Printables and now we make it even worse for all users and designers.
Of course they want to cut cost and try to make it harder for fake accounts. But it feels like it’s going down with MakerWorld.
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i admit, that all i think about is the point reward system - my points were steadily going up day by day (slowly) but up they went.
Now, they’re at a complete standstill, so why bother using much time in designing and testing (using filament at my own cost) and upload for free.
Now its impossible to make enough points to get some of that filament back in points.
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I’m upset that this change has been made to the website only, and the Apps don’t seem to be updated as yet. If they are not updated soon, with the capability of sending boosts to creators, then most of the 14-day machine-related boosts will go unused.
The MW platform was already really hard after the A1 recall and still does not seem to have recovered from the loss of traffic.
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You’re forgetting that Makerworld is 6 Months old.
Printables launched in 2019
Thingiverse launched in 2008
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Exactly. That makes it even worse. No incentive, way less rewards, and the platform, because of its age, still has some design/usability flaws. So this proves my point, that I’m concerned of the future when there is no real sense of why to invest - by users and designers.
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