The community feels like an empty shell compared to what it once was.  The "Golden Age" of Renderosity was a time when you could say what you wanted, fight when you wanted and everything wasn't so processed into tidy little compartments.  Most of that early community has gone on to just know what they're doing, and therefore have less need for interaction with other artists.  And their social interaction is fulfilled by facebook or other Graphic Arts communities where freedom and sanity reign.  A lot of these guys have just advanced into hardcore 3d and keep Poser at the end of a ten-foot-pole as an extra-revenue generator.  Poser became the microwave to their professional, restaurant kitchen if you get my meaning.

I've been here since 99 or so, but I hit a glass ceiling with my development.  I still have questions, but I miss the carefree spirit and yes, even though there was more infighting there was also more sharing, helping and elevating of each other. 

 

It's almost a ghost town now or seems that way to me.