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@jameshs - how can you make in Cura different number of bottom and top layers?

1. What material do you use? 2. What temperature do you print at? 3. Just to be on the safe side - perform the Atomic head cleaning. Then, it is really weird.

Dear @theDeugd, @SandervG et all there - you should work 24/7 just to bring back all the basics that were lost. All the detailed explanations, however they are justified in your eyes - are meaningless for us, the end users. The forum I used to love, trust and rely on was gone. Now it looks like it is going to come back. Please make the comeback sooner than later. Before it is too late.

@TheDeugd Gladly. Bring the chat back!!!!

Yes, finally, after about 1.5 months, the forum shows back the signs of usability. Thanks to everyone involved in reviving it. @SanderVG - suggestion: Please unite all the "3D Printing in ..." topics under "Education" into one. It is more or less useless as it is now.

Exactly. For example, the highlighted link leads to the topic with the last post from April, 2014. BTW, a convenient "quick quote" option would be very useful.

That is bloody not too soon! Now, the last date updated on the "Community" page is totally incorrect for me. The notifications like "2 days ago" lead to messages from a year ago. But overall, it looks like it is getting close to be usable again. Probably.

mechamecha - did you change the Teflon insulator together with the block?

It works! Hurray!

Yaw! Could you please drop a link?

I printed with the woodfill on 100-105%, 50mm/s, 210C with no visible problems. The retractions were ON. No complicated models were printed, though. Yes, the hotend needs a very good atomic cleaning after the prints, for sure.

@SandervG That's exactly what I mean. The only trouble is, that it doesn't work. BTW, yet another obvious feature missing is the easy quick quoting. P.S. Now it worked. God moves in mysterious ways...

The lack of the quality of the forum software kills me even more than its lack of the usability. Now, about two weeks after the rollout, one of the most important functionalities - the notifications links is supposedly working. Hurray! But how about to put just a little bit of sane thought and to bring not the last post in the thread but the last unread one, saving me time, trying to find that last read message? Just being grumpy, fed up and sarcastic...

Given the way this catastrophe was designed, handled, implemented and being "debugged", there's no wonder it goes this way. It's no wonder people loose their desire to visit this crappy place. It is very sad, however. I'm not loosing my hope, just yet. :(

For the first print, it is outstanding. Have fun!

Actually, I'd be happy to know. Looking for a good ABS source myself.

Hi kpk, The details on the parameters would help, as well as the type of the filament used. From the picture, I do not see what the problem is. BTW, I printed the octopus stand in PLA without a raft.

The reopening of the old forum is unfortunately, impossible, IMHO. Mainly, because of the need of the backways data sync between the new crap and the old forum. Then, politically, it is a total fiasco. That to say, the current forum is a total embarrassment, to put it mildly. I would rather love to see migration to one of the well-established forum engines + the chat option we miss. For a few days, I tried to get used to the new format. I give up. Trying to seek for a needle of a new relevant and interesting information in the hays of mostly empty space is frustrating. So there are a few topics I managed to hunt down, and I will follow them, until the better times. One feature complaint: when there's a new notification about a new message in the topics I follow (very nice, BTW), the link brings the 1st page of the topic, leaving me scrolling down kilometers of the blank spaces till end of the page, to click on the "last page" button, and then to search by memory the last unread message. How hard would it be to put the pages links at the top of the the page at least? Bottom line. On my work, over the past 15 years, my teams and me participated in quite a bit of "go-live" productions of mission-critical systems for our very big and very-well-known customers. If we would do tenth of the faults this forum release had, our customers would throw us far away on the spot, and for the very good reason. The release management of the forum was very unprofessional, and to make it worse, the forum itself is far from being useful. How sad. P.S. @SandervG - hehe, you beat me by two minutes!

@Daid What actually hurts me a lot is this very forum or what it has become. It's design. It's lack of usability. It's bugs. It's poorly planned rollout. It's failed implementation. What actually keeps me visiting this almost the only topic here is the people like Daid whose posts clearly show that there is hope yet and the belief that their (and our) voice will be heard and taken with the sincerity the UM is so valued for. Right now, the UM has some very brave decisions to make. We are waiting.

foehnsturm - totally agree with every word. I just thought back at that time that it's might be only me being too old and outdated. +1

On the positive side, the forum remembers the login information now. So some work is being done. Let's hope for the better. At least, for now. I do not want to move anywhere from here. The feelings of Daid go both ways - this place is dear for me, too. Maybe, they will wake up and replace this crap with a normal forum engine, who knows...

8) It is very tempting at the moment, I must admit.

We all do. However, when our company has a live productions, it is not uncommon for the teams to sleep at the office for few days. Noone is very happy about that, but smooth production is above all. Here it's just a bloody forum engine!

Aaaah, I do miss you guys! Will try to be patient however, no other way. I love the guys behind my UM2 too much to shoot them for the new forum as it is.

I have always liked the old forum and had stated more than once to many people all around (not just on the forum) that the community of UM doubles the value of the printer itself. I like no less the openness and sincerity of the UM staff in everything they do. It is priceless, again. Right now, it is the only thing keeping me visiting this strange site as what it had became. Reading the latest conversation in this only of the two topics I suceeded to follow, one frightening idea comes thru to me again and again: One fairly successful company had controlled about 60% of the market, and due to its own very unique vision and total detachment from the users, in 2-3 years they got down to just 2-3% and never recovered. It was Microsoft who had Windows Mobile on virtually every non-Apple mobile device until Android made its debut. The rest is history. I was wrong many times, and I hope to be wrong again. Please, however good the vision is, do not go too far with it without looking back.