Settings to remove certain tabs

Lately, Bambu Lab added some new tabs/sections to Makerworld, the latest being the new crowdfunding tab. While I am not necessarily opposed to these new features, the site becomes necessarily more crowded to use. I would like to be able to remove some tabs that I know I won’t use. For example, not having an H2D, I will never need the use of the “Laser & Cut Models” tab, I don’t plan on following crowdfunding either, I don’t partake in Bambu Lab contests as I like to organize my models in remixes and it’s not compatble, … .

It would be great to have in the settings, like for other things already there, a toggle to be able to disable certain tabs and their contents to improve the user experience. I suggest that each time a new tab is created, users can go and directly disable it in the settings if they don’t plan on using it. Beyond just the tab, everything related to the tab could also disappear. For example, if contests are disabled, no contest could be displayed on the main page.

While this is not directly a problem in English, in French the tabs have exceeded the limit, and now a scrollbar has appeared, hiding a part of the tabs in the creator’s model page. It will get worse for each new tab in the future and at some point, the English version will have it too.

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Perhaps its the browser you’re using to view the page in, or the language you’re using, but i dont see the scroll bar like you do, nor do i think having those tabs being there is an issue weather you use them or not. That seems like a personal preference, and dev time spent to make them OPTIONAL seems like time wasted.

As I mentioned above, it’s only a problem in French for now. As you are in English, it’s normal there is nothing yet for you.

It’s not a personal preference to handle this issue, as more and more tabs will be added, more and more will be hidden. The website is made with good user experience in mind for the community to enjoy being there, at some point, too much bloat will kill everything. It’s much better to have a focused layout than to be unable to find anything.

As a computer scientist myself, I know it’s not too much dev time (depends on lots of factors, but it should be ok) and that it’s better to handle this now than later hence why I mention it directly.

Its 100% a personal preference. Wanting the ability to turn tabs on/off for each user, is literally the definition of PERSONAL PREFERENCE.

As someone who works in IT myself, spending DEV time to make changes in the backend for a a non issue = WASTE OF TIME to change.

You are thinking too much in detail. It’s not about being able to choose the tabs that is critical, but it’s fixing the issue of the overflowing tabs.
A toggle to remove certain tabs seems like the most obvious solution, but you could also regroup these and make a dropdown system for example. The store has a bit the same issues to be honest so I don’t have too much hope anyway.
Fixing this issue isn’t a personal preference, it’s not really an opinion either, choosing the specific tabs is, but that’s not the point.

Listening to your reasoning, you would make a unique tab with everything in it and call it a day, stating that doing more is a waste of time ^^.

1 there is no issue with the current tab system
2 you wanting the option to turn tabs on/off beacuse its things you dont use/want to see, is an option/personal preference.
3 spending any amount of time, to make an option to allow users to to choose which tabs they see is a waste of dev time.

4 no where have i said anything other than there is NO ISSUE WITH THE CURRENT SETUP. especially i have not said anything like this. Listening to your reasoning, you would make a unique tab with everything in it and call it a day, stating that doing more is a waste of time ^^.

5 THERE IS NO ISSUE with the current tabs. you just want dont to see a scroll bar, and you dont want to see anythting to do with laser cutting / H2D things. THIS IS A PERSONAL PREFERNCE and a waste of any amount of DEV time.

6 Since you dont seem to understand any of the previous 5 points that ive repeatedly made, i will wish you a good day,

“There is No War in Ba Sing Se”

I am sorry for you, but you seem to got a bit stuck in a loop here … you don’t seem to be able to process anything.
Please don’t waste my dev time further.

Does the new/moved filter system not work


I`d assume no considering your complaint is about a pre defined tabs that requires a scrowl bar for your language. did you think about setting it to english ?

Hello,


I know about the new filter system, but it is not exactly complete, nor is it the topic.
This system is only valid for active searching (when you are already in the models tab and looking to find something) and is not for the whole site. It is also temporary.

Even if it would be the solution, there are some issues with this search, as well as there is no negative search (only block, which is general), for example.
The color filter doesn’t make too much sense as well, as the color of the model (and relation to it) isn’t always representative (some models make sense to print in tons of colors but only 1 is chosen by the creator) nor correctly identified (bambu can see AMS/MMU when there is none, for example).
Typically, a yoshi model might never appear with blue color activated, despite blue yoshis existing in the yoshi games (this is because green is typically chosen in 3mfs). A print in layers can be identified as using the AMS and purge tower when, in reality, it is not needed.
The tag system is also not perfect, as Bambu Lab introduces uppercases in them, making more than one variant for nearly every tag, but being still different, not all variants will show in the search.

Personally, I don’t even use makerworld as a user, only as a creator, as my printer is in LAN mode. This locks me out of rating prints and receiving boosts.
Basically, I only use makerworld to post models on, nothing else, not even partake in contests as I like remixes.
The explosion of fully closed licenses makes it so that I even only look at models to remix here as a last resort, it’s only then that the filter system is useful to me.


Regarding the language, it’s another issue. Every time I come to makerwold I switch the language to English. I need to do this as it’s not a setting but system and cookie related.
Having a browser set to wiping all my cookies on exit makes me do this. This is my preferred approach to cookies, so it’s not viable to change this. It’s also not a viable option to change my whole system language to english as french is my main language.
The only thing I could do is to toggle off auto-translate (also broken if you know the real translation, I often wish that we creators could simply add our own translation instead of the Ai).

But this auto-translate toggle is the reason why I consider it shouldn’t be that complicated to add the feature to select only certain tabs.
Indeed, this implies that there is already a system that spans the whole site and that modifies certain elements, removing certain other things is then trivial for it as well theoritically.

Overall, there are lots of tiny issues that you can find. It’s even worse when you are a computer scientist as they stand out. It’s not only makerworld, other similar sites have them as well. They even sometimes have the same issues as they copy each other.
It’s not only in 3d printing, lots of places have them. In games, you have for example minecraft that became riddled with issues and is now a bad game if you realize it.

Sorry for all this, but even this barely scratches the surface of all the issues I see/know and even less of those that exist. It doesn’t make sense for me to report them all as they are obvious to lots of people, but to the vast majority, these will seem invisible.
Time is also a big issue of course, as 3d printing is only my hobby and I much prefer doing my own thing than spending my life mentioning things and arguing with strangers.
I only mentioned this one as it’s more visible to the masses, but even here you can see that there are people not understanding the issue and finding it useless.
Even this forum has flaws, as for example, it’s popularity based and there is no site-issues category of makerworld making them drown in the other posts while already being not too popular in nature.

In short: no the filter system does not work for this and no using english will not solve the issue either (as even if I would do it the problem will come to english anyway).