Well this freaked me out. I thought Bambu had ended the North Pole contest early. Given that I have a model waiting in my drafts, that’s pretty annoying. But no, we’re good. Just too many contests to display on the hover info.
Well… Easy solution would be to “simply” make the menu of the “ongoing contests” actually match the number of ongoing contest. Currently it displays just 4, but ongoing is 5 and when the coffee one starts it’ll be 6 (because coffee one starts on 29th and the first one of ongoing to end ends on 1st)
I think the title summarised it best.
Too many contests.
Or just have less contests!
That’s managerial decision tho. What’s easier: fixing an “UI bug” that doesn’t show aaaaaalll the ongoing contests or make whoever’s responsible for scheduling contest to limit the number of ongoing contests to 4?
Or even three would be fine with me. They’ll have to give away less prizes, spend less time judging and moderating, and they won’t have to get as many unique contest ideas. Seems like it’d be helpful for everyone. (Forgot to @MakerWorld on the first post)
Yeah it didn’t use to be this many, it’s a recent trend, i think it’s also to drive more designers to the exclusive program to be honest
Edit/ but then again you only participate if you want to
I think there’s too many contest. It kind of takes away from the alure and fun of it and just becomes background chatter. A dumping ground of people vying for exposure; and rarely having much to do with the actual contest. It drives engagement, but it also drives the land fill of models that keep getting dumped unceremoniously on us.
Well now we do need a landfill contest. I’ll get working on some printmon seagulls asap!
I really think they should give the detailed contest info a good week ahead - like the ‘pop up coffee’ contest… what on earth is that going to be? Idk about you all but I don’t like microplastics in my morning brew.
In my opinion this is getting out of control and the result is a massive flood of mostly-the-same stuff. It is even getting boring to browse the recent upload category.
I would not do more than 1 contest per month, and maybe a special one for each season.
@MakerWorld Also the 5 entry limit is ridiculous, enables too many low quality designs. There should be a maximum of 2 entries per person, ideally one per person, their very best!
No, I mean less contests, there are too many.
Each successive one takes away from the preceding one.
We have two concurrent contests both Christmas based that should have been one and as I said elsewhere on the forum, they should have stated all the common tropes were out and really explore what could be.
The number of duplicate models entered with little or no thought to originality is depressing.
They were going to have very short notice and short time frame contest, that idea died quickly.
Maybe two main contests lasting two weeks max each and drop feed the short notice ones in with only a day for notice and a three day run.
The contests they run should be highly specific on what shouldn’t be submitted in order to spark real innovation and a true cornucopia of ideas.
Indeed, many competitions are filled with various irrelevant content… Also, I’d like to know where I can find the specific requirements for future competitions (instead of just a vague competition name). Many times, misunderstandings have occurred due to language barriers.
I think two at once would be OK. Printables has just one, and so if you don’t like the topic of it, too bad. Two would at least give people some choice. They could overlap slightly so the judges get a break and they have time to make the banners.
What do you mean? The coffee station one is clearly about coffee-themed train stations 
I know. All I’m saying it’s easier to fix UI than to fix whoever’s idea it is to have so many contests.
Imagine… If only contests were announced with appropriate time before contest starts, with nice and clean requirements including Malc’s suggestions (especially about beaten tropes)… The contests would be far better, but with far less models (and it seems like moar models moar better is the idea now)
They’re using it for marketing, I’d guess. Trying to hit a million models, maybe. Except 500k+ of those models are spammy junk, so I’d rather have less models moar quality… and vet all models before they’re released. I get that there’s a lot of models, but those with good track records would be gradually given a pass. It seems like “Verification” is just a rate-limit and check-the-profile-for-custom-gcode tool now, not actual quality screening.
Thank you for clearing things up! I’m going to build a train shaped like a coffee bean—first place is mine! 
I’m going to go against the grain and say we need more contests (like hourly) with higher payouts.
People will be so overwhelmed with creating that they’ll just burst into flames and the problem will just resolve itself in a short time. 
Should they be shorter too? Two weeks max seems like enough time, especially if they are willing to share a detailed description of the contest before it starts.
