Knock Knock.... Just a little status update, anyone home?
Greetings all;
For those who have joined after 2024 (or is it 2023?) you might not know who I am. My name is Shane and I work for Prusa. Previously I was the Forum admin and I switched departments and the role was assigned to someone else. Just recently I switched yet again (yeah I know, I know... I get bored easily after X amount of years) and with this recent switch, Forum Admin is back as one of my responsibilities.
So after 2 (or 3) years of being away, there is a lot of things I need to go through, so I am going to need some time, but I do see a good deal of posts about the current state of the forum and that somethings need to be worked on. I wanted to write that I do see your posts and I will take them to the correct people and see what can be done. Unfortunately this is something that I can not fix myself, or something that is a quick and easy thing, but I can say I will follow it up and see what options there are.
One thing I would like to also focus on for the forums is improving the community aspect of the forums and increase it's use so it is not just a place for people to come to for help with a problem, but also to be kept up to date with what the company is doing, what we are posting on other sites, and maybe some forum exclusive things. The idea is to make the forum what the community would like it to be.
I know there are posts out there with requests to the forum users asking what they would like to see, but some of them are old and I would like to have a new post with updated requests and combine them with the older ones.
So with that... what would you like to see in the forums (besides the tech issues with the forums.... I know). New sections? Options? Contests?
Shane (AKA FromPrusa)
RE:
- Definitely more presence from Prusa on these forums is needed.
- With the soon to be available INDX, having a separate section for that under the Core One would be great.
- Perhaps a specific section on filaments would be useful.
- A database of filament settings for Core One, MK4S, XL etc. With maybe a yelp-style user review and feedback. Although this probably belongs more in Printables than here
- Refactor the software areas: PrusaConnect, PrusaLink, PrusaSlicer.
RE:
- Stable operation of the forum, without the daily periods of extremely sluggish behavior.
- Avoid the random auto-logouts. I still have not figured out when they occur, but for me it's at least once per day. When I look at a particular post, realize that the forum has logged me out again and I log back in, I get sent back to the root of the forum hierarchy, losing the post I'm looking at -- quite annoying.
- Avoid the random language changes. Sometimes system messages suddenly come back in a different language, often Czech I think, but I have seen other languages too.
- Give users control over email notifications!! Currently, as soon as one makes a post to a thread, one is auto-subscribed to the thread, sometimes resulting in a deluge of emails if it's a busy thread. User accounts need a global setting whether emails are wanted or not.
Oh, and welcome back! Great to see that Prusa is taking an interest in the forum again.