I’m a little confused about the overall websites and logins.
I have a login to this forum which is part of the BusPirate.com
But apparently there is a sign-in for the main BusPirate.com (not forums) as well?
I do not have an account there. Is that different?
I do have an account at DirtyPcbs.com, which is how I purchased my units.
I also have a hard time finding the Bus Pirate section of the DirtyPcbs.com web store if I visit directly via the URL. But if I first go to BusPirate.com and then click on DirtyPcbs.com under distributors, I see the correct section of the store.
Ian is making changes to things as well, so I’ll just wait until the dust has settled to figure all this out. Just an observation for now.
The main BusPirate.com is a Ghost install (= modern Wordpress blog). Supposedly it has a mailing list you can sign up to, or to make comments. The transactional mail service they use does not like us using a free account, and I don’t want a third mail service subscription at $20/month to send a dozen emails here and there. So that’s the situation there, and I should disable anything for public account creation.
Yes, the forum is a different sign on. Mercifully Discourse can use an STMP server for transactional mail, so it can share the service we use for other stuff.
DirtyPCBs was never really intended as a showcase. It kind of grew out of my obsession with automating common services in the Shenzhen markets. It’s a bit long in the tooth, but it has SO many features that are hard to find anywhere else (self-refund, merge orders, share projects, and a super robust support ticket system backend etc).
Coming soon, you can also contend with shop.Bus Pirate It’s a hyper-modern Next.js storefront with headless eCommerce backend (Medusa) that I tortured into shape the past two weeks. The good news is you don’t need to create an account there, but can to speed checkout.
I have no problems with DirtyPcbs shop, just that it isn’t clear how to visit the BP5 section. I see in Categories a choice that gets a selection of ALL accessories for all products.
In theory there is a “designer/browse/{user_id}” route where you can see everything shared by a user. In an ideal world I’d add a link somewhere in the menu to my specific shop, but we did the Medusa thing instead and I think it is a better/narrower showcase focused only on the Bus Pirate stuff.
It’s a hyper-modern Next.js storefront with headless eCommerce backend (Medusa) that I tortured into shape the past two weeks. The good news is you don’t need to create an account there, but can to speed checkout.