Well I was all set to go on a big rant about how I've been working with computers for years and I know what I'm doing, and then I realized I had my VPN going and that was the culprit. After turning off the VPN, the product library pane is back to normal.

McGrandpa posted at 9:40AM Sun, 08 November 2020 - #4402980

So Far the ONE Positive thing 12 has over P8 IS: The Library works.

That's kind of why I'm here. I just installed Poser 12 yesterday, and I had a library pane that showed a La Femme folder and I managed to add my previously existing Poser content folder. It was there yesterday. Today it has a page that looks like a web browser window that didn't load a webpage right. It says "Failed to load URL http://127.0.0.1:11530/nonVirtualAssets/ContentLibrary-1.9.11/release-1.9.11/ContentLibrary/ContentLibrary.html with error ERR_ADDRESS_INVALID (-108)."

I don't know what's different between today and yesterday. When the Windows firewall thing popped up, I chose to allow network communication. That was yesterday and it was working after that, but not today. And I don't think any of the settings changed between yesterday and today. Also, I have been using DAZ Studio for some time and it's been years since I've had Poser installed, so I have about a million other issues and I don't know how many are because the software is a work in progress or how many are because I just don't know how it works.

I did try a different texture and had the same issue. I don't know enough about shaders to experiment with that. Like, I don't know if the shader can be replaced with another one or if it has settings, and don't know where to find the shader or settings. I did find a setting for displacement and it just had a question map by it with apparently no displacement map. The good news is after starting over and rebuilding the character from the default Victoria 4, the rebuilt character doesn't have this issue. So I thank you both for trying to help me, and one way or another the problem was solved. I just may never know what went wrong...

Well it seems possible to add items to the cart now, at least from here. Nothing changed about the browser. It's still Firefox 40.0.2 with AdBlock Plus. Of course that does me no good personally because the price of the item has gone from $4.97 to $6.96 and I'd feel cheated if I purchased it now. But maybe this is good for others.

I'm still unable to make a purchase. When I click to add an item to the cart, a message pops up that says something went wrong. I tried this at 1:51 p.m. Central Standard Time in the United States with the Firefox web browser. After I dismiss the message, the button says "Adding to cart" forever, but is still clickable and still fails. The cart remains empty.

The same thing is happening to me, and the sale price only lasts two more days.

I think they're basically counting on two groups of customers moving forward: (those DAZ3d fanatics who will buy their products no matter what) and (new people who have no idea what is going on). Those are the two groups of customers they can milk the most by deleting any negative comment that would help new people make a good decision or discourage a fanatic from buying as a trained reflex reaction. Maybe they're gambling that there are enough people in those two groups to make them wildly profitable. Maybe they are wildly profitable.

I was thinking, the best thing that could happen for DAZ customers is to have a forum on a site not controlled by DAZ. So they can't delete your comments or just call you an idiot and lock the thread so you can't reply (as they did when I made a valid complaint about a flaw in a product).

Renderosity seems much better. The only major downside I see personally is, despite abandoning DAZ as a marketplace, I still use DAZ Studio (3.x, with no weightmapping whatever). And Renderosity seems fairly hostile toward DAZ Studio and its users. So I have to swim through the sea of "not tested or supported in DAZ Studio" tags that they copy and paste on everything and just guess at what looks like it might work.

And there are a few times I've mentioned that I'm a DAZ Studio user and asked vendors questions about the products to help my cause. Some of them are really nice, but some of them just bluntly reply "this product does not support DAZ Studio". I'll get this reply even if the question is about a missing file or an incorrect path to a file, something that would surely affect Poser as well as DAZ Studio.

The harsh reality is, DAZ Studio users need DAZ to step their game up so things will be better when they're skipping DAZ to buy from the competition.