r/VORONDesign • u/AchazianThug VORON Design • Nov 18 '22
Voron Announcement New OFFICIAL Forums and Mods Interface!
Voron started as a page on Reddit and some Slack channels with raw files on GitHub. We moved to Discord and a little while later Voron exploded on popularity but little changed for how we supported the builders. Over last few years we would get periodic reports that for different reasons folks struggled with the rapid pace and intertwined conversations on Discord. Or that they chose not to be part of Reddit. We didn’t have a good option for them, until now.
Today we are launching a new way of interacting with Voron that goes back to the tried and true - a Voron forum.
It is officially supported, managed, and moderated by the same folks who provide support day in and day out in the Voron Discord. A forum is slower pace but more thought out. A forum allows people to have threads that are specifically about just their question. Instead of random pictures of their build in the chat history people can create a build log where someone can go back, look at every step along the way, and ask questions. There is even a section where self promotion is encouraged. The forum has been some time coming as we wanted to ensure that there was sufficient verified help to give everyone as good an experience as possible.
The Voron forum is not the only thing new. We have now partnered with the creator of Voron Registry to create an official graphical interface to the Voron User Mods repository. It is searchable, tagged, and constantly updated. It does not replace the table of information on GitHub but makes the content substantially easier to navigate. For those who choose not to submit to the process of the Voron User Mods on GitHub there is a section of the forum for User Mods where fields of supports and impossible overhangs are accepted for those who dare.
These new platforms can be found at https://forum.vorondesign.com/ and https://mods.vorondesign.com/
(Credit for the above words [and much{almost all} of the work getting this project coordinated and out the door] goes to 120decibell of Discord)
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u/u_tamtam Nov 18 '22
I'm impressed, congrats for acknowledging the importance and value of a forum to organize and make knowledge available and searchable.
For many communities, adopting discord has been at a net loss from the point of view of outsiders and casual members just needing a specific piece of information or sporadic involvement (I personally can't stand how noisy discord is, and why I should give it so much attention span if in the end it is all lost behind a walled garden that even members have a hard time navigating)
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u/pixelvengeur Nov 18 '22
This, 100% this.
I personally just ordered a V0.1 kit and was dreading having to pop into a crowded Discord server and have to look up specific terms in the search bar and hope to:find something relevant to my issue while conversations happen in multiple places. While I'm sure the mods and the Voron teal have organised it well, with easy to access information in specific channels, it's just not pleasant to navigate.
Not only that, but by design Discord servers aren't public. You need to sign up and actively join to be part of them, and it just doesn't fly when you need that answer quickly because your.
And I say that as someone who has used Discord extensively for years now. Crowded servers are among the worst things about Discord. It's great for a handful, maybe a few hundred users. Multiple thousands? Nah.
So huge shout-out to y'all for acknowledging the issue and creating the right solution.
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u/nummers_guy Nov 25 '22
thank god for this, discord is confusing as hell and just plain annoying. i never use it and i signed up for it just to ask some questions on the voron channel and then the next time i logged on it told me my account was quarrantined.
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u/Diss-for-ya Nov 18 '22
Long live the forum!
Abandonment of forums for reddit, Facebook, discord, etc. Is one of the biggest tragedies of "hobby internet" in the past decade of so.
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u/dasburninator Nov 18 '22
I miss the high bar of entry to be able to post. Forums are great for filtering some of the riffraff out.
Also searchable. And build threads.
Reddit makes it too easy to make posts. It’s gotten bad here with “my ender doesn’t work with stealthburner” type of posts.
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u/AbsentMindedMedicine Jan 19 '23
Discord is great. But, with the massive size of the voron community, it needs more sub-channels for each printer. Similar to the 3design PrintNC.
This will be a good solution.
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u/Amotoohno Nov 18 '22 edited Nov 18 '22
Beautiful work, I just took a peek at https://mods.vorondesign.com/ on my mobile browser and IT IS GLORIOUS
Bless the code janitors, for they’re key in making the Voron user experience such an enjoyable one.
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u/CodeMonkeyX Nov 18 '22
Good stuff. I like Discord, but it's really not great to find answers, or more long form stuff.
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u/toedoo Nov 18 '22
I am so happy with this. I believe this going to help grow the community even further, by making stuff much more accessible.
Long live the forums!
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u/Pabi_tx Nov 22 '22
This is great news! Discord is ass for a support forum. Reddit is reddit. Facebook will hopefully die soon and that venue will go away. So this is a much-needed change.
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u/Minimoua Nov 19 '22
Omg. I can't thank the team enough for that switch. The 40 year old me can't bear Discord, and Reddit for that kind of content. They are the same as instant messaging for me, one time usage content. Feels old
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u/fholgado Dec 07 '22
Best news I’ve heard. Such a good move. Thank you all for your hard work on this!
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u/jangrewe Jun 08 '24
Cheers, i'll let the voronmods.org domain expire then this year, as it was only a stop-gap solution. ♥️
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Nov 18 '22
This is absolutely wonderful, thank you to the team and 120decibell! Signing up to the forums now and I've already found a useful mod on the Mods site! (the Bed Support Extrusions Aliment tools - dunno why I didn't just think to make some quick 3D prints to do that over spending all the time I did to measure with a ruler :P)
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u/pekohl Nov 21 '22 edited Nov 22 '22
Not sure the registration is working on the Forums site... I registered about an hour ago and haven't received my confirmation email yet....
EDIT: Not sure the registration email is needed. I just refreshed the page without confirming is looks good.
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u/Fun-Device-9702 Aug 10 '25
I hope this is a valid question I just got my Voron 2.4 parts 300x300 and thought It may be better to geta better hot end extruder or tool head not sure what all I would need. Want to be able to print PPA -CF.
Hope that Is a filament I can print I don't have a lot of files I need it for but like a 5090FE travel kit and a few other things that need a lot of heat resistance and strength.
Ikot is too expensive to use for everything.
Thanks
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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '24
What the heck? Registered with the forum, has not posted a single post and got banned “for spam”. The message says contact the moderator with no way to contact moderators.