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Hi all, I'm doing a bachelor in Mediatechnology, at the 'Hogeschool van Utrecht'(HvU) in Utrecht, the Netherlands. I'm part of group of students who are working on a project which is based around useabillity and databases. Our assignment is to create a web-app, which contains both a user-friendly navigation and a database. We started thinking and we came up with the idea to create (to make a start with) a community site. To be exact, an art community site. We discussed this with our tutors and they came up with a couple of interessting community sites to investigate. One of them was this one, renderosity. So we created an account, tried some navigation, and started this post. We don't have that much time since our project must be completed within two weeks. So if this post is not positioned right, or something else is wrong, that's probably because we didn't had enough time to get really familiar with this site. There's something else too, I can imagine moderators and admins might find this a little suspicious, us asking what people like and don't like about this community, and trying to improve it in our version of a community site. Well, don't bother about it, it's an assignment, we have to turn it in after a small amount of time, so it will not be finished, and it will never make it to a serious art community. That's simply to much work and not part of our assignment. So please help us as much as possible, and maybe the creators of renderosity can learn a little something to ;). What we would like to know: What do you like about renderosity.com? What do you dislike about renderosity.com? What must be improved and what must be kept the same? That's all about the questions I think, please help us. If interessted what has become of this project please let me know. Please help us, Thank you all, Greetings, Thomas Dogger / JimmY-DigitaL 1407, Mediatechnologie HvU, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

What do you like about renderosity.com? The people: The Renderosity team and the members of the community, also the concept, galleries, comments, forums, marketplace, freestuff, tutorials What do you dislike about renderosity.com? The persons with more than one member, this is one person with multiple members. What must be improved and what must be kept the same? I like very much Renderosity and it is improving very well, I remember when the navigation was impossible, very slow, but now this is an old chapter and now Renderosity is improving over a solid base. About what must be improved it can be little things as accepting flash files in the galleries instead of naked jpg, and, as I said in the second question, the multiple members don't fit in a serious community as Renderosity. I don't know how this can be controlled and this can be another thread.

What do you like about renderosity.com? Its the biggest Kid on the Block. There is nothing much else to recommend Renderosity over other communities. > What do you dislike about renderosity.com? See the next point. > What must be improved and what must be kept the same? Every time the PTB change something I wish that they would just leave the site alone. No change ever was to the better.

I guess the original poster is trying to get people to comment on bondware or whatever database/server software is used here. But it looks like people will probably respond instead about more subjective matters unrelated to the server software, which is cool, of course. It's probably useless info for the guy who's trying to write yet another database app, but I have to admire the cleverness of using a potential competitor's client base to do this kind of research.

All kind of information is welcome. If you can tell me something about what software is used, I'd appreciate it. The main goal of this thread is somewhat like: Likes: Lot of options and functions, fast navigation, no banners, etc. Dislikes: Slow loading, not well-organized, to much art is accepted even fast sketches, etc. I'm not really interested in how the people are, since I can't make some sort of app which filters only nice people (would be nice though). Please keep posting, it's really usefull!

The navigation isn't the easiest on the right hand bar, a little too crowded for my tastes. But the top navigation is easy, and I like the way the galleries are set up, especially the view all new. I DON'T like having to wait 10 minutes for all the product crap to load when i want to upload an image. I find that completely unneccesary and a real hassle for dial up users like me. I have my differences with the admins, but they're not worth getting upset about. The front page should be simpler and cleaner. It takes forever to load. The forum system is the best on the net for simplicity of use. The free stuff, tutorials, etc. need to be better organized to make them more accessible. The fact that you can customize the colors is good. There haven't been many speed problems and MySQL problems lately, but there have been in the past and will be again. The site isn't designed as well as it could be for dial up users. I'm extremely grateful the site doesn't seem to use java to any extent, as I find Java a complete pain in the ass. It's good, but it could be better.

Jimmy, you're obviously an intelligent person. I don't know if they might have an internship for you, if you can spot ways to improve their database and save them some cash, but it is certainly a worthy baccalaureate project.

Now, if you could create a filter that would exclude trouble-makers and rabble-rousers, that might be worth a few euros to somebody. But then that might take all the fun out of it for the admins here, who no doubt loveto play whack-a-mole every time some new problem pops up.