Morkonan opened this issue on Mar 02, 2015 · 8 posts
Morkonan posted Wed, 04 March 2015 at 12:08 PM
Yes we are aware of these issue and our programmer is working to get these things corrected.
I know it is a pain and we do hope to have it resolved shortly.
Once they report back to me I will let you know and at this time you can try it out and make sure nothing was overlooked.
I do apologize for the inconvenience this is causing everyone.
I appreciate your reply.
I hope that these issues get fixed, but I won't hold my breath! :) "Forums" are a dying breed in today's overcommercialized age, where Twits and FB'ers dominate the landscape and where user-tracking seems to be more important to any website than user-generated-content ever was.
But, in this particular commercial atmosphere, user-generated-content is King. Without user-generated-content, most of this particular industry segment, recreational 3D art/modeling, would not exist. Without communities that create not only for themselves, but for each other, this commercial opportunity would fade. The only reason that websites like this one and its "competition" still have forums is because these forums serve to generate sales and an atmosphere that more intimately promotes the formation of brand recognition and user-comraderie. Other forms of social "medium" do not do this as well for this sort of complex subject matter.
"Forums" are necessary for this site and others like it. I only stress this because there is an unspoken "push" across many different sorts of sectors to gain additional revenue by commercializing their communities using popular social-media sites, sites that do not support the type of communication such a community as this one really needs. In the case of this particular industry, that wouldn't work well to help promote their true business - The selling of application-targeted electronic content. So, some care must be taken to ensure that what does "work well" for the enterprise is stewarded well.
In my experience, when commercial webforums begin to show signs of disrepair, it's almost like a self-perpetuating prophecy, an "excuse", for the host to use when attempting to convince their communities it's "much better to move to a social-media outlet." I'm not saying Renderosity would be so silly as to try to cut their overhead and monetize on their community, at the same time, using such a doomed-to-fail scheme. But, it's always best to speak early, before such nasty thoughts begin to rise out of the muck, unheeded and without warning... :)