Forum: Bryce


Subject: My take on this new Renderosity forum format

Quest opened this issue on Apr 10, 2006 ยท 32 posts


Quest posted Mon, 10 April 2006 at 6:46 PM

Ive reserved until now waiting to see if anything would change but its going on a week and most things have settled down. Im on dial-up and things here seem a bit slower than before. I dont know if the PTB are catering to broadband but it seems illogical that Renderosity is a US based site and people overseas are getting a faster connection. Does anyone fill the same? Not that Im saying that overseas people should have less but that we should all enjoy the same. It seems to me that we, as a graphics forum, have lost forum character and uniqueness since this PHP changeover nothing distinguishes us from all the other run-of-the-mill message forums. We are no longer distinguished, we have joined all the rest! Theres really nothing new here except CSS for the PTB. We are now the same as all other PHP sites. We have no forum chat and no way of knowing who answered your post without having to actually go into the thread which takes forever to see who has responded and if youre on dial-up, too bad! You have no control over how you view the forum. You cannot control the color scheme and your eyes are at the mercy of the PTB. If you offer a pictorial tutorial for Brycers, they are no longer viewed in their entirety but compressed beyond recognition unless you decide to click on the figure and if youre on dial-up that takes longer still to download since you are downloading twice. Know that they plan to stick it down your throat regardless and they know that after a while everyone will either condescend (fall in line) or move on to other forums. There are a few other things but they keep promising they will correct over time and still remains to be seen. Basically, theres nothing new here just more chaos. Im thinking that theyll selectively and conveniently tell me my comments are off topic and will be deleted as they often tend to do when it doesnt conform to their sales pitch. Does anyone else see a problem with setup and what is it?