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Thingaverse works and has an insanely massive database but I prefer the cleaner for modern interface of Printables and the code seems to be tighter. Stuff loads better, is easier to navigate, and the search actually remembers your spot. That was one big thingaverse pet peeve of mine.
Download the stl file from thingiverse not the zip file. Open bambu studio and either import the stl or drag and drop it. You are adding someone else's file to Maker World in your own name. All you do is downlead the .stl file and then in Bambu Studio import the file.
Both of these are the reason I ignore them. Spamming isn't cool, but login requirements are double uncool. I might have been able to overlook one but both means they're run by assholes and since the reason people are looking for thingiverse alternatives in the first place is because they're looking to get away from assholes, the spammy guys don't stand a chance.
Thingiverse does have lasercut stuff. Thingsverse and Instructables. Wow, I'm really late to this one but I just created cuttingpaths.com specifically for sharing laser cutting files. There are plenty of scroll saw patterns and collections that can be munged a bit for a laser cutter.
I think active users have already done this. The problem is all he old content still locked away in Thingiverse. If everyone that uploaded models to Thingiverse re-uploaded their models to printables, we could forget thingiverse ever existed.
Thingiverse was popular and has a lot of things, but it's quality is deteriorating ever since it was bought out by a rival and neglected. Printables is good... For now at least. If you're only going to post to one, post to printables. Search actually works, site is much faster, the 3D viewer is significantly better, etc.
As others have already said thingverse is fine. On a more general note, STL files are pretty basic and printer agnostic. You must slice them for your printer so there is little risk of anything going horribly wrong from a tainted file.
Eventually, I bet someone will build a script that can stand up a local Thingiverse without all the bullshit. It'll probably need about 1.5-2 Gb 1.5-2 Tb of local storage once complete. This style of hoarder backup was useful when they suddenly decided to hide thousands of LEGO things last year.
I went to Thingiverse today to answer a comment about one of my 'things'. Discovered I was logged out even though I had the 'remember me' box checked. No biggie, happens all the time. I clicked the 'sign up' button to get to the log in button. Again weird, but no biggie.
It seems Thingiverse has disabled 1 click downloading of items listed. So the 90 file storage system I've found, that has 90 parts, it's now a 10 minute ordeal to download instead of 1 click for a zipped file. So has anyone got any recommendations to alternative sites like Thingiverse?