A Reddit thread posted last week in r/thingiverse hints at a resurrection of the popular Thingiverse platform.

“I’m one of the developers that are currently working on Thingiverse,” wrote Reddit user nallath. “A number of developers from Ultimaker (now UltiMaker) are working on Thingiverse.”

Several days later, nallath posted another comment, “We just deployed a new release. Search should be much better, as well as a number of GUI and backend improvements!”

This is a good sign in the wake of the Ultimaker-MakerBot merger, which sees the two companies joining under the name UltiMaker. Some internet users theorized the merge would result in the permanent abandonment of Thingiverse, which has had its share of user-confidence-knocking events, not to mention grumbles about the platform’s user-friendliness in the recent past. New efforts to improve and restore the platform show that UltiMaker is instead taking steps toward its improvement and, perhaps to the eyes of some, resurrection.

We have reached out to UltiMaker for further comment and will update this article accordingly.