Hate to tell you this, David, but that post is going to get zapped, two of mine already have been, perfectly civil ones.

It might very well get deleted, and it would not surprise me if it does. But the point remains that we can no longer attach examples for people to download which makes it very tedious to explain certain things in a FAQ. 

Years of valuable tips and tricks that could have been linked to are no longer complete. If it took 10 years to accumulate all of that in the past with attachments, etc, it will take even longer to do so in the forums present state.

Say someone wanted to explain a shader setup that BB already posted in the past. Someone will now have to take the time to start over instead of simply adding a link to the previous tread that went into great detail on it. The same could be said about any thread that is no longer complete due to the changes.

The Wiki that was deleted had tons of examples as well, How long would it take to redo that? Well that depends if anything was backed up. If it was not, it will take years.

The decision to make changes has had serious repercussions on the community, and it was not the users fault. Now we are being asked to redo years of work, with no insight as to when and if we can even put attachments into it, etc. Or even if the delete button will get mashed at some point again in the future.

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