Quote - As for other forums, here's my favorite: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1034 It's a huge place with many thousands of users, yet it's fast, very fast. Even threads with multiple hi-res photos load almost instantly (while the photos "paint" in). It's plain, uncluttered, and professional. Navigate around this place a while and you'll see what ease-of-use and speed mean."

What you must remember about DPreview is that those images aren't hosted on Phil's site; they're links to external personal domains or photo hosting sites such as PBase and Flikr. I personally believe this is the direction Rendo should have gone. Hosting a million images is ridiculous bordering on foolish, and, as Rendo themselves have discovered, extremely taxing, as they trimmed back the three per day policy to a one per day policy of uploading images...unless you pay $ for the extra uploading permission. Phil's web site is one if the ten most popular web sites on the Internet as well as one of the busiest, and I'll have to agree the site is very fast to load. It is by far my favorite place to hang. The only negative I and others have about DPreiew is that you cannot edit your posts. While that is a minor inconvenience it would be nice to be able to do that. Those members who belong to DPreview also belong to other photography web sites that are php boards and the feeling of most is that they don't particularly care for php boards because they all look the same. Adding avatars and smilies are cute I suppose, but they're not in high demand at Phil's site. Different caliber of users, I suspect. Not in the intellectual sense...it's just not an artsie-cutsie site. And I've never seen the words 'Love and Hugzzzzz!' and 'Byeeeee!' used there, either. I've usually enjoyed Rendo, but it has always reminded me of a chick flick. Oh, and of course, it has thread bumping. And it ALSO accommodates the user's screen size as do most other php forums do, unlike these new forums here. I still cannot understand why the hell 1024x768 was chosen as a maximum. 1280x1024 is rapidly becoming the standard. Whoever is making decisions about this web site has his head tucked firmly up a '90s butt.