Avalonne opened this issue on Jun 22, 2006 · 11 posts
drawbridgep posted Sun, 25 June 2006 at 7:34 AM
I appreciate your points, and they are valid points, but we need to give renderosity (and I'm just as guilty as anyone) a little slack. What they've created here is not just a personal website, it's a major undetaking and that takes constant attention and a staff. This doesn't come cheap and they have to make money from advertising, sales and subscriptions and if by having to look at adds on everypage it means I get a great site (and I really think that when the dust settles it will be a great site again) then I'll happily look at a few adds.
With the changes, they've tried to bring the site inline with 2006 and although on the face of it, it's not that greater change, it's a completely different beast under the hood and there is bound to be a transition period of uneven service.
As for being a store rather than a community, it's not a charity or even a folly run by someone with more money than sense, it's a business and designed to make money. It's also a business with no real product.
Normally as a repsone to a post like this you'ld get some idiot say "if you don't like the channel then switch over" or some other metaphor. Not very helpful or understanding, but I can see the point of what they are trying to say. I would say to anyone that is so badly affected by the current situation to leave for a month or two. Come back after a break and see if things have settled down. Hopefully you'll be happy with the site once it's back up to full steam and if not, then it'll be time to move on.
Finally, as for the two artists that we sadly lost recently, my thoughts go out to the families. I didn't know either artist, but hopefully the thought that in some small way their art will live on here will become a comfort.