hornet3d posted at 4:27PM Sun, 10 January 2016 - #4248331

I would not be at all surprised if there is a downturn in the number of products being purchased here for Dawn, and thus an apparent lack of incentive for vendors to produce such and so the spiral down continues. I doubt however this has much to do with Dawn and a lot more to do with Rendo.

Actually rendo threw their full weight behind Dawn as well as many vendors, so your statement isn't accurate. Dawn had 3 sites' support, only thing it didn't have was the customer support which is why vendor support now is what it is. I'm not sure why people would blame rendo for customers not buying full stores full of Dawn content, the simple fact is she didn't sell and vendors lost money.

And really forums aren't money makers, the store is. Rendo could take their forums down, and it would have no effect on what's being sold. But if you take the stores down, the forum wouldn't last that long before someone starts asking for donations.