Thingiverse Thursday Improvements

After missing the past 2 weeks, I finally managed to revive Thingiverse Thursdays, my weekly spend-an-entire-day working on Thingiverse and trying to make it better. Its easy to get caught up in all the various projects I’ve gotten involved in *cough* MakerBot *cough*, and I really love the site that Thingiverse is growing to be (and already is)

Anyway, here’s a short list of things I fixed:

* general look/feel improvements (edit page tab colors, logout link, download button, etc.)
* fixed the derivative system / i made something system so it now works properly!
* worked on Aviary API integration (coming soon!)
* built and released a new Notifications system. right now, you can get notifications when: someone comments on your thing, someone makes a derivative of your thing, and when the mods feature your thing.

i’m pretty psyched about notifications. we use js-kit, which is awesome. they just don’t offer any sort of ability to specify who should get comment notifications and it sucks. their APIs suck, so i wrote a script that scrapes the rss feed of all comments on thingiverse. once i had that, then i could do all sorts of fun stuff with the comment data. now you’ll be able to know when people comment on your things! you can set this all up in your user profile.

next up: add ‘publish’ functionality to your thing so that it doesnt go live right away, and i’d like to start work on a parts lister ala parts.reprap.org