It's those merchants who have provided items that are exclusive to Renderosity who are truly suffering. Management, design, and programming. All three seem to have left this web site. I still say cash flow is an issue here, hence the attempt at raising 5 bucks each month from users who have some need to post 21 images a week or 84+ each month. It hasn't made any difference; postings are down and the site is slower than ever. Size does matter, and I think Renderosity has simply become too big for its britches. It simply cannot handle the load with as many users that have signed up and manage all their data. It's a matter of poor design and a severe lack of bandwidth. Try pinging this site and follow the trail to the bottleneck; it's the same every time. Bandwidth is quite expensive which would explain the need to hopefully milk five bucks from an unsuspecting user. It would appear that sales aren't too great in the store. And cash matters too. If there were sufficient cash resources, this wouldn't be happening. I'm not bashing the geeks behind the scene, but if they don't have the hardware and software resources needed to make this enterprise work, then their hands are tied as much as are the hands of those trying to actually visit this site. How many members are there? 153,000+? And how many of them are actually buying goods from the store? Probably very few, and if the site relies on sales for its survivability then therein lies the problem. Bandwidth Requirements: 2,000 people at any given time attempting to upload or download 200k all at once. No cash sales from the store for bandwidth upgrades, hardware upgrades or decent programming: 2,000 people meeting with failure all at once. To the owner Renderosity: GROW with the flow, as in providing needed capital, or make some tough business decisions... as in find a buyer? Your Band-Aid approach isnt working.