How can someone know whether they're interested in the images at Renderosity if they're not even allowed to view the thumbnail galleries? I'm not talking about allowing non-members to comment. I don't understand what the point is of forcing people with only a casual or temporary interest to go through a sign-up process for something they're not that involved in currently. The whole point, presumably, of putting our stuff on the site is so that people can look at it. Renderosity has been making it harder and harder over the years for non-digital-artists to casually drop in for a browse.

Lots of people don't like signing up for stuff on the internet because of the potential to be sent loads of spam (me included). The first thought when I'm asked to sign-up is 'Why? What are they going to do with my details?'.

If you think I'm being unnecessarily grouchy, consider this: about four years ago I suggested to a publisher that they pop over here to look see whether anything might be suitable for their book covers (I knew my stuff wasn't, but thought that other people's might be). I only had to send them a short link. If I wanted to do the same thing now, I'd either have to send them links directly to the galleries of those people I think might be appropriate, or tell them they had to sign up. There's no way they'd sign up, trust me, and I bet that after following a couple of links and being asked for passwords they'd leave. Who benefits from this?

Much as I like you guys, I don't want you to be the only ones that can look at my stuff. When I joined this place, it was an easy alternative to setting up my own website, but it's becoming less and less of an alternative, and more and more a source of irritation.

Anyway, time for Oscar to get back in the trash can. :-)