Other 3D printing communities

[MaeIsBad]

I've recently gotten back into 3d printing and I was looking for a community to join to help me with modding my printer. I used to just use discord and reddit for this, but I've been trying to avoid them and use independent forums if possible.
I can't justify upgrading my ender 3 to a voron printer, but I'm a big fan of the project and it's goals and i was hoping some folks here could point me to other 3d printing communities you participate in.

 

[MichaelOToole]

Apart from this fine Forum, I found one but a lot of posts were basically adds and not a lot of discussion going on.
There are quite a few using Discord but I'm not gone on it for actual discussion, it's good for quick answers.
Reddit is my preferred option as it most resembles a typical Forum...

One other option, build one yourself (I almost did).
There a quite a few free opensource forums packages and tutirials to setup your own Forum such as phpBB, MyBB, SMF etc...

 

[vinnycordeiro]

There is the forum organized by Prusa, which obviously focus on their printers. Other than that most of the discussion these days are either on reddit or Discord, as much as we dislike it. This very forum was a long time request from some people of the community.

 

[5twenty]

Mostly just this one now...FDM isn't what it once was...but still there.

I'm with you, reddit is trash, IMO. Discord is a horrid IRC wrapper with even worse searching.

And I do remember everyone wanting this forum too...but people took too long and pushed everyone to Discord...most just said nope to that while waiting and communicate via other channels.

I try and stop by here at least once a day, but when there are no posts for a few days it gets lonely, and I tend to stay away for longer chunks...until I miss something.

 

[3dCase]

I don't know if you klipperised your ender, but if you have then https://klipper.discourse.group/c/general-discussion/6 is a very knowledgeable place. They do seem to talk mostly, or even only, about klipper but if you are stuck, I am confident they will get you unstuck.
As for other forums I don't know any, and I am not thinking that I miss much. But the occasional visit to discord does sometimes bring up answers, but mostly inflated egos. Reddit I only joined because I wanted to register my voron, I left as soon as I had my serial number.