I doubt there will be a reply, but I didn't want to violate any TOS in the usual haunt, so...

Stopped by just to peek about - it's been almost a quarter-century(!) since I first posted something in the forums. I still remember it like it were yesterday... It was a busier time back then, with 2,3, 4, sometimes 5 pages full of posts per day, with something always happening.

Now? Two months of posts barely fill the first page in the Poser forum.

Lots of folks I know and respected are... dead. Fucking dead. Literally, they're pushing daisies. I miss some of them terribly the moment I think of them. No room to talk here though - I damned near bit the big one myself in 2016; honestly, I don't recommend it - St. Vincent in Portland really has a kickass CICU though.

Lots of other folks have simply drifted away. Some went to the DAZ fora (which I literally founded, then left as that monster went corporate and grew beyond my meager ability to control). Others went to graze in different pastures - Blender, Unity, Stable Diffusion, whichever. Some returned to their physical art roots - clay, oils, pencils... 

I always figured this place would adapt somehow, but now, I'm not so sure. Buying Poser was a good idea, but the execution so far isn't quite where it should be IMO. The (apparent) dwindling userbase activity seems to reflect this. Don't worry, I'll go no further, except to say that I was hoping that Poser would come back enough to keep DAZ on its toes. Maybe it will at some point? 

Ah, well. Days gone by and all that. 

I'll pop in from time to time, but it increasingly feels like I'm walking through the ruins of some long-forgotten civilization. 

Thoughts?