I'm glad people really are leaving this time. Every time this site has suffered one of these catastrophic "new and exciting upgrade!!!" disasters there have been lots of people threatening to leave, but few actually do. The pattern has been the same for years: Big ugly makeover, community uproar, admins do the "be patient, we're still ironing out the little wrinkles" routine with hugzzz and smileyfaces, and management just hunkers down and waits for it all to blow over. And it does - eventually the complaining stops when people realize nothing will ever improve, and eventually one forgets that everything used to be better. But it occurred to me that perhaps some of the ongoing squabbling in the Poser forum might be due to a growing level of general frustration and discomfort in this shitty site environment, like kids in a hot car.

If we don't learn from history we are doomed to repeat it, I finally got tired of repeating this particular history lesson. I shut my store and deleted my gallery, this was a home for 12 years but I'll find another. I'll find a car parked in the shade with the windows open.

If management appear to be attempting to un-break a few things, perhaps it's only because enough people really did leave this time. But for me it's too little, way too late.

PS: I had to type this twice because when I came to post it I was taken to the LOGIN page (even though I couldn't have typed anything in a community forum thread if I wasn't already logged in. Duh!) This is the sort of crap that adds up and adds up and eventually makes this place intolerable.