[Mega Thread] Discussion on Authorization Control System / Third-Party Integration / Bambu Connect

Mega Thread now made to focus all things to here, so people can somewhat use the sub.

Any post after this may be locked and redirected to here.

Note: This post maybe be replaced by a different one in the future.

Personal Statement from me, u/YyAoMmIi

A few of my previous messages:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/comments/1i4jzz6/comment/m7whaso/
https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/comments/1i511v8/comment/m8345mi/

I do NOT work for Bambu. Most of my time with a different interest entirely. Please be respectful, do no harass for this. Though, I been doing most of the reddit end aside from official post, such as post approval, only as VOLUNTEER.

While I have no current involvement in the discord [was mod there years ago], their actions look reasonable. Thing about moderation is to note if something is done in good faith or bad faith. Good faith is more genuine questions, something thoughtful. Bad faith often is often something just done to harass or spread image.

For example: talking about punishment in public area. In another community, I see someone post in public if art was ok [when private method is known]. Said Art is explicitly NSFW and community is sfw....

Most of the bans are for trolls who take chance to harass. Everyone here should be no stranger to the internet, and know the worst of people exist. Where they taking the chance to make a name of themselves, and have marked of being banned. They just want to be funny. Taking chance to raid people, claiming they banned for say x [when low message history, no actual intentions behind message]. They only watch pitch fork without being productive. This is similar to US riots in 2020, where there was peaceful protesters, there were also rioters and looters.

Something to consider is purpose of punishment. People should not overreact to mute / timeout as those serve as crowd control, to buy time for better judgement.

Right now, the sub is unusable. Ideally we would not silence the issue, have a few post. Yet we want day to day operations on-going, where people can still discuss issues with their print/printer. Limiting / locking / removing duplicate helps this. If you rather us not moderate at all, thus not let people get tip on their printer...

I personally wish things were more planned, like approved official Mega thread days ago.... I found out about these changes same time as you guys.

Note: There exist reddit anti spam filter / crowd control, which I still don't understand nor have control over. Most post get removed due to that, and get sent to mod queue. I assume that is based of karma / account age? When it get sent to Mod queue, I have to manually approve it. Remember I said I'm Volunteer mod so I can't instant approve due to priorities, and current workload.

I will try to keep this thread as Neutral as possible.

Bambu Official Blog Posts:

  1. https://blog.bambulab.com/firmware-update-introducing-new-authorization-control-system-2/
  2. https://blog.bambulab.com/updates-and-third-party-integration-with-bambu-connect/

TimeLine:

  1. Bambu Releases info regarding firmware
    1. https://blog.bambulab.com/firmware-update-introducing-new-authorization-control-system-2/
  2. SoftFever / OrcaSlicer statements:
    1. https://github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlicer/issues/8063
  3. Youtuber comments:
    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWNL-gCRbnQ
  4. Bambu Connect Keys extracted:
    1. https://hackaday.com/2025/01/19/bambu-connects-authentication-x-509-certificate-and-private-key-extracted/
    2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYhYkpYpt58
  5. Bambu's new statement
    1. https://blog.bambulab.com/updates-and-third-party-integration-with-bambu-connect/ -# This section will be updated.
  6. software developers point of view
    1. https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/comments/1i5nmp9/how_they_should_have_handled_this/
    2. https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/comments/1i5t1fy/the_best_architecture_design_to_solve_all_those/

FAQ

  1. Why are you removing my post?
    1. See earlier message on the reddit crowd control
    2. There exist a language filter automod which already exist month ago. When that automod is triggered, it should state what phase triggered, so you can repost/comment without that phase. I'm not a fan of that filter myself.
  2. Why are you banning people for talking about this?
    1. We have not. Genuine comment are allowed and we have not taking actions
    2. Political comments, or comment about China are more trolls to spread bad image.
  3. Why were some post locked without reasons?
    1. That was my mistake in early stages. I apologize for that.

Below will exist a pinned comment. Reply to that with link with any info to be included updated above. Irrelevant & Duplicates comments to that pinned comment will be removed. That pinned comment exist for my ease to update. Remember that I'm only a volunteer, so it get difficult to read all of the post/comments.