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One of the reasons artists like this site is BECAUSE it has a 4000 x 4000 size limit. And the ability to write longer descriptions. And for many other things. I've been on other sites, and there will ALWAYS be some that offer no size limits, and those that offer smaller ones: But RR offered 4000 x 4000, and that was one of the reasons we loved this place. And, as you can see, there are other major issues too. If this were just the "look" of the site, it wouldn't be as serious: But you've changed essentials, and it's hard to see how it's better for Art---even while it's better for advertising
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The whole point of the changes to the Rendo site are (IMO) commercially driven.
Rendo exists to make revenue by selling through the marketplace....and like it or not, artists uploading and sharing their work online through rendo is not their primary, but very much a secondary concern.
Apart from gallery images potentially publicising vender products it is probable that rendo view the artist galleries as an unwanted necessity to their web space.
In fact , the thousands of contributor uploads probably eat up acres of potential advertising and market webspace
Ever since I started viewing gallery images, folk have been complaining about the 512 kb restriction....so rendo are already fully aware that there is an issue with contributors existing upload limitations to the galleries.
Yet, instead of listening and enhancing the gallery limitations, it appears that they have instead restricted them......because they really do not appreciate your works as part of their commercial package.
If rendo really appreciated your efforts to create and display images on their site then they would provide the best upload criteria on the web...wouldn't they?