3D Warehouse questions

mhtaylor

I have a couple of basic questions about the 3D warehouse:

1 - Can you track updates to the comments and ratings on your models? I do not get many ratings or comments so it would be nice to track via RSS or something when some one says something nice (or horrible) about my work.

2 - Can you see more about user than the current context? It I click on a user's name from the comments, I see just their other reviews and comments. If I click on their name from a model, I just see their other models. If I click on their name from a collection I just see ... well you get the idea. Is there nowhere you can go to see a user's profile and their models, collections, ratings and everything else about them?

It's really hard to get a sense of community in the warehouse when you can't really work out some one's credentials.

Aerilius

Both answers: "No, not yet"

The RSS feeds for searches (for example search a user, sort for date) are quite new. Google sabotaged my own development. Just after I put much efforts in developing a Firefox extension for this, they made the RSS feeds. So I also thought of making a feature to see all new ratings, but I won't risk it anymore.

RSS feeds for comments and ratings have been proposed in the Sketchup group, so we don't know if the will do it or when or if tomorrow.

Has also been proposed. Currently the only possibility to get more info about a user is to use the contact feature on the model page. Some modelers have a collection of their models where they have a good description text about themselves.

mhtaylor

@aerilius said:

Both answers: "No, not yet"

The RSS feeds for searches (for example search a user, sort for date) are quite new. Google sabotaged my own development. Just after I put much efforts in developing a Firefox extension for this, they made the RSS feeds. So I also thought of making a feature to see all new ratings, but I won't risk it anymore.

RSS feeds for comments and ratings have been proposed in the Sketchup group, so we don't know if the will do it or when or if tomorrow.

Has also been proposed. Currently the only possibility to get more info about a user is to use the contact feature on the model page. Some modelers have a collection of their models where they have a good description text about themselves.

Aerilius - Thanks for taking the time to replay - it seems that Google is missing an opportunity to foster community among users of the warehouse - bummer.

mhtaylor

Google must have been listening - today it seems they've enabled a link in the 3D Warehouse from your models to see your profile. A step in the right direction me thinks? eg: http://www.google.com/profiles/TheOtherMartinTaylor#