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New OctoPrint version & what's next (Patreon)

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2016-05-04 14:41:23
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I just tagged and pushed a new version of OctoPrint, version 1.2.11. This is the first version to include the About dialog - so all you Patrons who pledged for the $20 perk are now in there :) - and also the new announcement system I wrote about earlier.

I know that some of you requested to have that plugin also support custom RSS feeds - the current version still doesn't have a UI for that yet since I didn't want to risk breaking things and getting even more behind on this release. It's definitely something I still want to do though.


So what's next? 


I'm still busy talking to a lot of people in the background, but don't think that I'm not aware that I owe you people at the $10+ perk level some stickers :) I'll see that I get those designed over the next couple of days (also thinking about making more than one option and give you guys the choice which one we'll send to the printers, what do you think?). 


And of course I also will look into setting up our first hangout. I've thought about using Google Hangouts on Air with their Q&A functionality enabled, does that sound good? 


Finally - the first round of pledges has now been collected by Patreon, and I want to take the time and thank you all again (I hope you are not getting tired of reading this ;)). When I got the news of the funding breaking away I found myself with very dark thoughts about OctoPrint's future, and I really didn't expect the amount of support I've already seen from the community. You really blew me away and certainly got my fighting spirit up again - you ROCK! :)

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Shai Perednik

Just my opinion. But there is no point for custom RSS feeds in octoprint. Octoprint is a printer host platform. Adding a generic rss reader dilutes the platform and adds more dev overhead. We need the focus to be on the printing experience not on auxiliaries like rss reading. There are plenty of rss reader apps someone could use. I'm fine w the octoprint RSS feeds in there, but that should be it. Thank you to the octoprint devs for all their hard work!!!!

foosel
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Sorry, that might have been misunderstood. The idea is not to turn OctoPrint into a RSS reader, that is certainly way out of its core use case, and I fully agree that it would be wrong to waste resources on optimizing it for that. But since the feeds need to be configurable anyhow (hard coding things is never a good idea), it's not that much of an overhead to add an "add" and a "remove" button if it helps some users with their use cases. And that's all that's on the agenda here :)

Shai Perednik

Gina. That's awesome and thanks for the quick reply. Keep up the great work!!!

Phil Maddox

Hi Don't worry about the stickers too much . Nice gesture of course but not mission critical :-) How about you print a few green Octopi then sign them on the bottom and have a monthly draw for patreon contributors. Then when youre in a old rich peoples home with bill gates i can sell one on Ebay :-) Great to hear you have received the support you deserve Well done !

John Sanford

no no no, YOU ROCK :-) I had just started using OctoPrint around the same time I learned about your funding issues. So far I'm loving the product and I'm ever so happy to help pledge support. Thanks for all you've done for the 3D Printing community.

Shane Ekerbicer

OctoPrint is by far the best thing to ever hit the 3D printing community, and I am very happy to help contribute to it's production by supporting you through Patreon. I pledge $20/mth and am very much looking forward to seeing where OctoPrint goes in the future! Cheers from Mackay, Queensland, Australia :)