I totally agree with Simon. What does it hurt to allow people who have not divulged something of themselves - valid or not - access to viewing the galleries? The benefit in doing so is getting digital art in front of more people. That seems to me a good thing. I know I have held back many times from going further at some site or another because they want me to 'sign up' or 'register.' Sure, here at Rendo they don't spam you but that's not true for other sites. What do the major stockholders or the board of directors gain from a lot of registrations, many of them bogus? Can't the number of people viewing the site be kept tract of without registration? Maybe there is a good reason behind it. It would be interesting to hear from Rendo management the logic behind this particular change.