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While I agree that this isn't the most sophisticated forum I am amazed at the rudeness that is being expressed. Unless you have made some kind of donation in the past you are getting this amazing resource for free!
I agree that an easier way to add images would be helpful and i'm sure based on past threads that P&A are aware of this. However, I come to this site for the content & expertise of the community not the bells & whistles.
To say that it isn't rocket science is a bit presumptuous when we have no idea of how the site is technically put together or the impact that rolling out a new forum would have on legacy content.
i'd never normally pay for a...
i'd never normally pay for a forum either but i have made a (very) small token donation to designaddict in the past because it gave me some valuable information that I couldn't find elsewhere.
It's great that the internet gives us so much for free but I think we can sometimes take it for granted. I've gained so much from this forum & its users that would have been much more difficult & time consuming to accumulate offline.
Maybe i'm being naive/daft but i feel like this is more than purely a business venture for P&A and i personally think a great deal of respect is due to them for it.
Hello,
We understand your...
Hello,
We understand your impatience concerning the evolution of the forum and the changes that we promised many months ago. The job has been ordered and it will be done. We apologise for the delay.
It is not as simple as one would think. One of the characteristics of DA is that it doesn't uses ready-made tools which could indeed be implemented very easily. We made this choice to be able to inter-connect the data bases from the various sections of DA and to make it possible for you to reach complementary contents which are spread in various places of the site. This option implies a specific development and thus time and money.
A small reminder for the newcomers on the site. We do not earn much money with DA and we often have to bring some personal funds to finance its development and survival. It is obvious that there is the possibility of making money with this site, but we never wished to impose a too important presence of advertising to our visitors and we have to admit it, we are rather bad salesmen. We both had an artistic training which did not prepare us to manage these aspects.
So, if Killian or somebody else thinks that he can do better and wants to purchase the site in all or in parts, we are ready to discuss : -)
Moreover, as some of you might know, I am an artist and I must thus dedicate my time to my work. For the moment, I am preparing an exhibition in Paris for December. Therefore, all the management work of DA is on Alix's shoulders, it is a burden that I do not wish to anybody, I thus ask for your understanding.
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