Thought about it again and I'm saying it anyway.

If DAZ truely wanted to talk, the DAZ forum wouldn't be getting censored, edited, and deleted in to nonsence.

You couldn't have this conversation on the DAZ forum because if the entire thread didn't get pulled, it would at least be edited down to the point of making no sense.

There are quite a few issues at DAZ that can't even be address because the subject matter is taboo and gets an immeadiet deletion.

I'm banned for complaining about the censor ship. My ban is up in a couple of weeks, but I don't want to be part of the new "sanitized for our protection" DAZ forum.

I'm doing the carrara 8.5 beta, quite a few people are, but you don't see any posts about it on the DAZ forum. Why?

How can you talk about how well genesis works or doesn't work in carrara when the doesn't work part is deleted?

How can you talk about the touble with autofit if those posts are deleted.

How can you talk about using DSF to get genesis or scenes from studio to carrara when DSF is one of the DAZ taboo subjects that gets an immediate deletion.

DAZ doesn't want to talk, DAZ wants to listen to the bleating of it's fanboy sheep.

If the post isn't an official announcement, a PA posting about their latest piece on sale, or a newbie asking for help, there is a good chance it will get pulled.

 

You want to talk installers. How about the newest ones that doesn't mention Poser or runtime any time during the installation process. It's real fun trying to install in poser format to a runtime when you are never given the options.

Persoanlly I hate installers, they take me 3X as long to run through and install and unless you are right on top of it, no telling just where that content might get installed. The latest installers need a tutorial. A tutorial for an installer? If an installer needs a tutorial it has defeated it own purpose. Installers are suposed to make this easyer, but they don't, they just make it more complex.

Last night I had 16 installers to run, from 3 different DAZ eras, so that was 3 different places they wanted to install to. And even after installing with the newest installers, next ones up wanted to install to else where, so every one of them had to be pointed at the right runtime.

And just who's bright idea was it to set the installers up to make a short cut to your content on the desk top and the start up folder? I'm still shaking my head on that one.

Now try to explain that to a newbie, tell them DAZ never updates installers so installers install to where ever the content folder was at the time the installer was made. Try to tell them that the older content doesn't have micro data, and more then likey never will; DAZ doesn't update installers. So none of it will ever show up in you smart content tab and poof that post is gone.

Give me a good oldfashioned zip, unzip, cut, paste, done and I know my content is in the right place because I put it there. If it isn't that easy for you, you are on a mac or using the wrong zip unpacking app.

If these installers where all they were suposed to be the forum wouldn't be full of newbie posts about not being able to find their content. And I'm sure changing the name of the content folder to my libaray isn't at all confusing. I mean by some happy luck a newbie manages to point the installer to the studio folder, he just gets a content folder next to his my library folder so when he opens studio and goes to his library of coarse he can't find his content.

I finally got around to instlling the latest DS4 with the nonfunctional genesis cr2 exporter. This is just too typical of DAZ. I don't have poser so it may work in poser, but it sure doesn't work in carrara; which is suposed to be poser compatable.

 

I could most ashuredly go on. I've been watching the demise of the DAZ forum for weeks. Watching customer after costomer leave DAZ; or threaten to leave before their post gets deleted, long time poster after long time post just stop posting. And I haven't seen many of the best carrara users on the forum for quite some time.

It's a pitty when you have to go to the competitors forum to have an open discution about DAZ, DAZ apps, and DAZ content. Because you certainly can't do it on the DAZ forum.

 

Please excuse the spelling, I blame it on this not so user freindly forum. ;)