it's not just the forums, trust me. the mess has bled everywhere and into the cracks even.

the idea of creating a tutorial, well, i'll point above. at the same time, if you're writing a tutorial, it makes it sound as if things will be staying the way they are, but hopefully with a few tweaks as a few massive overhauls.

i'm just going to put this out there, and i really don't care what anyone thinks about it:

the programmers have essentially damaged my HOME!! they came, swung a big ol' wreaking ball into one of the walls. they stripped away my personal belongings in the sense that there is now so little customisation available. and they have bolted down my furniture where THEY think it should go.

1. i used to be able to favourite an image and say WHY i did so. that really was never done to communicate anything to the image's creator, but so if someone came by and took a peek at my favourites, they could not only be introduced to p'raps something new to them, but they could also learn a little about me, what speaks to me and why. that started off several good conversations with folks i might've never bumped into otherwise. the same is true for favouriting artists.

2. my 'friends' and my 'favourite artists' were combined into one list. when was i consulted about whether or not my perspective on the two groups is the same?

3. i can no longer post an image to my 'bio' page temporarily if i didn't want to put something into the galleries directly.

4. i no longer have the option to turn off any commenting on my images - i liked having that option at times for various reasons.

5. i can no longer readily find things in the MP, which is a shame, as i'm a huge impulse shopper whenst i can easily browse at my leisure.

6. i can no longer find other people's wishlisted items.

7. today, in going to the galleries, all i seem to get a that big useless spinning icon that never seems to remedy itself so i can view anything.

8. coming to the site itself, i can easily wait a full minute before anything loads as i'm oft stuck waiting on some google ad click thingy to load first prior to any page loading.

9. things are just so disorganised in general...

community means having the ability to COMMUNICATE, and that should be a full-bodied experience: communication in ALL facets of the galleries, communication in the forums that don't take forever to load, communication via the chatroom...

i left a list in a thread here about bugs i found, questions & concerns i had, and provided sceenshots [for the most part] whenst asked to do so for clarification. i really did not do any of those things just to bitch. i did them because i am in want of not feeling so bloody displaced from my 'home', and i want that to matter to someone here at Rendo that can actually help me, help everyone else, to not feel so awful. i said i'd prolly not come back until a week or two had passed, but yet, here i am, still fighting to get right with all of this ---

THIS SITE MATTERS TO ME

t'would be nice to feel that we as users actually matter in return...
and no tutorial can truly provide that...