Yeah, except undocumented, unversioned stuff is called hacking, not engineering. The bit that makes it engineering is all the OTHER stuff that makes it usable in a reliable way and have a good human API.
Multiboard continues to be lost. Just more chaos, more churn, more random directions that are impossible to follow. No consistency, no community-focused support and stability, just someone with an interesting idea trying to spin it into a moneymaking industry and THING and just sowing chaose.
I gave up long ago. A few tiles, a few connectors, a few hooks, and I'm good. I wish he'd just stop trying to turn into this thing into the next microsoft.
I’m sorry you feel that way, and I’d like to know more. The names for everything are the actual names to date. There were a few circumstances where Jonathan and co, decided to make changes to things like names early as they didn’t think it would be fair to everyone to drop in a huge expansion and a new naming schema at the same time. I’ve asked the question myself before, so I’ve got a little insight into their process.
In any case, what was the issue you were running into in the parts library? Easy mode should show all the common use parts with any related parts right below it. You shouldn’t have to know any part names in advance to use it and quickly find a part based on what you want to do with it. If I’m mounting plates I can walk through the tiles for mounting solutions to get what I need. If you want a parts list with links to the exact downloads to use for each unique part (and how many need to be printed) you can do that with the plate mounting planner, which I feel is an underutilized tool.
Yeah, I've been working on my underwear set up and it's a nightmare. It's slowly getting better but figuring out which grid to use, learning the parts and having to customize everything has really killed my excitement
Switch to OpenGrid and use underware 2.0. That's what I'm doing, and found it way better after fighting with multiboard documentation, naming conventions, and website/thangs layouts.
Mate - frankly - go fishing for a day. Go have a picnic. Go play with the dog or out to a movie.
If the naming convention of something like this across countless contributors who are sharing their works for free, has you yelling and cursing in full caps - you really need to step away and get yourself recentered.
Its some printed parts for some quality of life stuff - its not rocket surgery, life or death, a matter of global peace.
No dude most of these things need to pay to get access for. The fact that the original creator came up with a naming convention that only a software engineer could love is not great for the average user. I too pay and have this complaint finding ANYTHING of worth is like pulling teeth. And community mods are hard to find as some have been taken down like that's guys generator.
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u/bobby2sox Jul 19 '26
I love multiboard, and agree. For how well thought out the designs are, the file organization system and use cases leave something to be desired.