the ‘like’ button is embedded in the preview picture when you browse newest thinks, only shaped as a heart, hover over the heart and the ‘like’ text appears…but a ‘thumbs up’ icon would be better
Yes it’s at the top-right corner.
That’s very far from the “liked by” list, way out of your field of view, usually out of screen the moment you scroll down to read the text and not labeled.
It’s also light-grey on grey.
That’s what I’m complaining about.
“effectively hiding”.
Thingtracker is a kind of glue between depositories like thingiverse and perhaps homeprototype and alike - it’s right now thought to normalize data and then, on top to have a frontend with search, catagories, and likely a time-machine sort of interface to see changes of a thing (I realized this yesterday evening while coding some proof-of-concept), e.g. if a depository provides sufficient data to discern between version 1.000 and 1.001 and able to retrieve the corresponding data (stl,txt,etc) of that version and caching it, that would be very useful and get close to what github does to source code. I think there is a great deal of potential with this ‘layer in between’ to analyze and structure data which otherwise is quite diverse.
Maybe to add, I think Thingtracker was born by @Gary_Hodgson to bring possible alternatives of thingiverse together and counteract preemptively against segregation, by introducing this layer and possibility (as I realized) to add functionality which e.g. thingiverse perhaps never will have (e.g. versioning).
Yes, Gary needs support and feedback for the Thingtracker, the idea is that with just a few standard tags/fields added to ‘things’ on any site that supports it we will be able to have whatever user interface is needed or desired and filter, version or share ideas and objects with others in like-minded ‘maker’ communities.
@Marcus_Wolschon Thingiverse replied today (after multiple approaches): “Thanks for writing in with your suggestions. We’ll be re-adding the published date to the Thing pages.”
