Well, it might actually get some attention?
It did get a few fixes over the past few years, but it kind of felt like it was on life support, especially when comparing to the other model sharing sites. So I can imagine it being an improvement.
I hope so. I just hope they don’t mess up customizer. A lot of useful models support it.
Thingiverse has an OpenSCAD back end so you can post OpenSCAD files and setup Customization handles so that users can generate their own custom variations of your design.
I’ve used that a number of times and seen people using it but Autodesk people constantly broke it and only after many months of complaints would they attempt to fix things.
I hope the new owners give it the attention it deserves. Personally, getting it out of the hands of Autodesk is a very good thing.
I don’t think it was Autodesk, wasn’t it UltiMaker?
You are correct in a way. I mixed up Autodesk with Stratasys who had purchased Makerbot.
They then also purchased Ultimaker and created a group of Makerbot/Ultimaker called UltiMaker(notice the capital M). And I believe Thingiverse was part of that group until they recently sold it to MMF.
BTW, Cura was created by Ultimaker and thereby is owned by Stratasys via UltiMaker group.
I do hold Stratasys on the same plane as I do Autodesk and have no trust they’ll do what’s right for the industry or community. Ever.
Not sure how that’s “correct in a way” 
I’m just glad to see it out of the hands of Stratasys. It’s a valuable resource and deserved better.
But i’m not sure how relevant it is these days; it was essentially unusable for quite a few years. People just stopped posting new designs there because uploads went wrong, files disappeared, descriptions got random text added, images never updated, all sorts of really bad backend issues and constant Ads. Lots of Ads.
Yeah, there’s a chance that it’s with owners who will care about it. Like many, I quit trying to upload to printables when it was unusable and uncared for.
I think the main value is that for so many people “thingiverse” is still the “kleenex” of model hosting, from first mover advantage.
I’ve been watching Manyfold with interest and at such time as they implement Git integration I might start using it. One of my concerns with moving to Manyfold, though, is that I want my public designs to be findable on yeggi, and I’m not sure that yeggi is going to index an indefinite number of self-hosted Manyfold instances. Right now publishing to both Printables and Cult3d makes my designs discoverable. 