hopeandlove posted at 8:44AM Wed, 17 February 2016 - #4255385

I am very sorry for those who haven't seen a single improvement since we've launched. As always, we're taking steps to diminish problems, bugs and issues. We are moving in the right direction and for those who are on board, thank you. It is MUCH APPRECIATED. For those who'd like continuously bash our efforts- even though I'd hate to see you go - just let me know if you'd like me to close your account.

Thanks!

My own view is that there are few, if any, that are commenting for the sake of bashing and if anyone is they are far outweighed by those that would like to see Rendo turn the ship around, but some of us have had a hard ride. I can only base my feelings on my experience but I have seen the Poser gallery sink to an all time low over 4 years, mainly thanks to a repeating theme of arguing over which software is best and who was responsible for the split between Daz and Poser. If that was not bad enough we then had posts accusing one country of having state sponsored elimination of homeless people. To me that broke the TOS of the day so I reported it. The result was a response that just because I did not agree with the view did not mean it should not be posted. Even that was an improvement as the few other occasions I complained on personal attacks against others, in those cases nothing happened and I did not get a response.

That was the forum, then I had my credit card defrauded on three separate occasions and by that point I knew that Renderosity was the cause of the breach of information. I contacted Rendo stating that the last card had only ever been used at Rendo and was told they could not be at fault as they did not store credit card details. Much later they went public with the fact that order information was being passed to unauthorised third parties.

Later on came the Prime membership debacle and if you look at the threads in the Prime forum you will see I was a very active supporter of Rendo and the changes, boy do I feel foolish now. Not only did the changes trash any benefit I got from Prime membership but they were implemented at the same time as a site upgrade that, as usual, downgraded the site and added yet another set of bugs to add to the other bugs still existing from the last few upgrades. Now I tend to be an easy going person and try to see the everyone's point of view, but quite honesty some of the responses to members in the Prime forum were indefensible. To say they were condescending and dismissive would be an understatement but again some wanted to go further and then blamed the vendors for the whole Prime mess. As I said, I like to be fair but seeing an group of innocent people metaphorically thrown under a bus did not lie easy with me.

The last update was the final straw and the massive adverts next to a small image of my gallery upload led to me removing my gallery completely and I know I was not alone.

So that is my journey, others will have had a different one but for many of us it has been a torturous ride, despite that we still visit but not because we love the place. I come because I learnt so much from Rendo when I started out and, just like supporting your favorite team you like to stay with them through good and bad, but there are limits.

Honestly, we are not bashing, we just want our old Rendo back as a community some thing a lot of us have wanted for a while but it seems a good deal of the Rendo management do not share, or even understand, this desire..

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.