@gate

Yes they could do that, but they don't. If they did I would not have said that. Every public thread here is searchable on the web, and has been for a long time.

You can still find ones that they "lost" thru engines like wayback. In many of those you find links to other things as well, the way it used to be.

@RedPhantom

Yes that would, but not all of those sites are even maintained anymore. Many are basically just sitting in peoples "free web area" that they got with their ISP.

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The whole no link thing is a bit odd to me. I can understand not linking to the Daz store, but not being able to put a link to someones freebies hosted at a site that they run is a bit odd. Usually you block corporate links, and let individual ones up. But that is just what I would call normal operation, from modding at other sites that had similar rules. Most of the sites I worked at allowed links to freebies, etc. Possibly all of them actually.

Rendo has chosen to just forbid links period for the most part, and that is their choice to do so. This community was started to share, learn, etc. Now that is eroding away. The spirit of an extended community has come down too; host it here, so they won't go anywhere else. It makes me wonder what the reasoning might be for this change, and it doesn't really take a rocket scientist to figure it out. Its a sales thing... or lack there of....

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Some things are easy to explain, other things are not........ <- Store ->   <-Freebies->