Hi all,

Sorry to post here, but I wanted to make sure it was seen.

First of all many thanks to those of you who added your support so far.

Second thanks to Renderosity staff for the changes you made so far. The advertising has improved and I appreciate that we are allowed to use html in the notes section of the freebies to link to our sites.

There are still some problems for me though, if we have a link in the notes for people to download then the download will not register on the system. If people choose to download from our sites then it will appear that the freebie has no downloads, therefore not painting an accurate picture of how many people enjoy our work. Not very fair.

Could you please bring back the option to host offsite so that downloads will be registered. For people who don't want to go to other sites because of problems with downloading or downtime then I'm sure we would all be prepared to add some kind of flag to our uploads. If you could add a flag system to say "this freebie can be downloaded offsite and this site is not connected with Renderosity and Renderosity accept no responsibility for availability etc." then it would stop people complaining to you, they should complain to us if they have a problem with the setup. I have included the label Site Link with all of my freebies from day one and I think if you could implement something similar, that must be checked if the freebie is hosted offsite, then it would solve those problems. If some kind of flag is displayed with the freebies then people who want to download that freebie will have to be prepared for possible downtime or whatever. Plus Renderosity will be off the hook because the artist has clearly stated that you are not responsible for the freebie by checking the "offsite" box.

I don't have much of a problem with the advertising now, I think if you guys are happy to let us show off our work here then you should advertise and make some money from it. If you are making money from us though I think it is only fair that we should have an official option to host offsite (with flag) so that people can visit our sites AND the downloads will be registered. It should be a give and take thing and at the moment (despite the very reasonable changes so far) it's still a bit one sided in your favour.

Thank you for your further consideration of this matter.

Adam Thwaites

I'll add this post to the other forum too.

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