Honestly I think what you guys are noticing are the symptoms of things happening on a much larger scale than a few trolls or admins and is way beyond the control of Rendo.

How much has DAZ Studio effected the Poser forum? How many people changed over to DS? Are there other places people are going, Facebook perhaps? And maybe the whole 3D scene is changing. Maybe peoples interests and needs have shifted.

I have noticed for all the years I have been into computer art and game development (over 20 now) that things shift and change in unpredictable ways. Waaaayyyyy back when I developed games using few pixels and ridgid development standards and limited this and limited that. As games progressed I was able to use images larger than I ever imagined and shaders and materials not remotley posible a few years earlier. I literally wrote the book on a lot of this stuff and I am still surprised by the speed and unforeseen directions things evolve. So here I am 20 years later and I am developoing art for iPhones and iPads and I am back to using the same limited, optimized, and structured ways I used 20 years earlier. I thought those days were gone but all of a sudden those long abandoned skills are in demand!

Got off course a little there, sorry :) Anyway I think things might just be changing on a grand scale.

 

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