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).
