Seems like software wars are maybe a little old hat these days? We seem to be moving on to 'My community website is better that your community website'. Which is already becoming a little tiring, at least to myself.

Hivewire3D is "flourishing" that's great news. If you enjoy it there, that's even better news. I'm not really sure what the relevance in bringing it up here in the Renderosity community forum is though? Seems a little like Astroturfing. Which is what led to my sarcastic remark.

It makes me wonder is this the point someone is meant to bring up how well Daz3D are doing at the moment? ... So we can then descend into a 3 page argument about which site is "better" has more actual "traffic" or has more of a "Community" feel to it. Yawn, lets hope not.

It's funny I visit so many 3D focused and art websites and all of them have their little quirks, assets and points of difference I have never felt the need to hold one of them up as the best above all. Actually with a lot its the actual competition that makes them dynamic. Maybe one day there will be a more widespread community here in this field, that will see the benefits in building all aspects of this community up, no matter the platform or domain name. Appreciating the value in all of them, the collective value each brings to the other and most of all to the artists in this field. This ideal was part of what made Renderosity a place really worth visiting, a diverse community of digital, traditional and mixed medium artists. A gallery that featured watercolors next to photographs next to renders.

It wasn't the sameness that made it interesting it was the differences that really made it sing.