RedPhantom posted at 3:36PM Thu, 23 June 2016 - #4273507

Male_M3dia, I don't see why you are so against improving the site and making it easier to find products. As you've said, DS users have asked for this too. This is something that would benefit all shoppers. As far as if vendors are willing to do it, if Rendo insists, they'll have no choice. In the real world shopping malls are probably the closest thing to the market place. Any vendor wishing to set up shop in a mall has to fulfill certain guidelines or risk losing their lease. Rendo can say that vendors have by a certain time frame to update all product listings or risk the product being discontinued. Vendors with more than 'x' number of products can have so much longer. Rendo can even offer a service to do it for a small fee that will cover the cost if they need to bring in temp help. Yes, there will be much weeping and gnashing of teeth. There always is with any change. But most vendors will eventually settle down and do it. Like you said, they want to make money. And it might weed out some of those ancient poser 2 products that probably are of no use to most people these days.

I'm not against improving the site... if this is what that was. This is not simply the case in this instance, and I think everyone knows that. And resources should not be allocated in this instance just because people who don't like DS don't want to see it's products now that Poser products are being made less, especially when there are other things should take priority for development. That's what this is really about. Besides since a lot of products are intertwined between the two programs, it would be a solution that would be hard to implement and do properly and would take a long time to do because of the amount of products involved and manpower needed.

A better solution and something way more cost effective is making products a bit more descriptive moving forward, because this is where the complaints have been focused on. It is also something that could be done far quicker than manually classifying and modifying thousands of records.