A few nit-picks: 1) Where do you get the "400,000" number? Is this the number of members? If so, out of that number, how many are active? How many actually used the site more than once? How many read messages in the forums? I bet the number is significantly less. 2) As it is, there was no call for imput, no glimpse at an alpha, no warning it was coming and no "letter to our faithful members" explaining the implementation cycle and goals. This is how Renderosity always works: they make a change and then adjust things based on users' complaints. Remember the big drama a few years ago when they changed the look of the site? Did they beta-test? Did they ask members for feeback before it went live? Did they do any kind of "user impact" study before putting the new pages in place? Not at all. Instead, people were stuck with a "mud" color scheme that was hated by most people. So why should this "upgrade" be any different? --John

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