https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=1627&p=24010#p24010 ----------------------------------- Tormie Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 11:11 AM ----------------------------------- [quote] Now I can't seem to shut up! [/quote] :roll: :roll: :roll: :lol: How I found and came to Posetteforever is obvious, I was here because I installed the site :lol: ... Trying to avoid my nonsenses I'll explain my mood in that period. You should already have known that I don't like too much the commercial aspect of the 3d art, I can stand a limited use of banners and commercial in the forums, but after this I get pissed and leave the place. I began to learn about poser at Poserpros, I came there searching for freebies at the end of august 2002 and stayed partecipating little by little in the discussions and uploading my early pictures (not very different from actual ones :roll: ). I had an idea of that site, I thought it was different from Renderosity because all the people said that the big one was too much interested in money and there were discussions between the ultra gurus about the difference in percentage of the income, things that I have not understood at the moment :mmmh: ... At the beginning of 2003 what disturbed me a lot was the beginning of the systematic and annoying use of the banners, not only one at the top, but [b]2[/b] banners, one at the top and one at the bottom of the page, and it was the reason why I bought the norton internet security package that has a countermeasure for the ads. Then, it appeared as an announcement a commercial about a new don't-know-what-it-was package for Victoria, and It was there , I couldn't avoid to see that disturbing thing and I knew it was useless to begin a quarrel because when I watched around me I saw a lot of people interested in earning money selling their 3d stuff and only a little group of people who seemed to use my own "philosophy". So I decided to open a different forum dedicated to my beloved Posette :heartbeat: who I would never have exchanged for one of those Victorias :prrr: because Posettes are pretty, cute and don't sell herselves :whistle: ... I didn't know (and actually know only a little :oops: ) how to build a site, so I searched for the same software of poserpros and I found that phpbb was a free software :lol: that everybody could download and use, so I practiced with it in a free place on lycos (it's the same address where we have the temporary/emergency forum) which can be named "Posetteforever Beta", lol. Then I searched for a cheap host. The sponsor of a site on phpbb which is http://phpbbhacks.com is Ifroggy, manteined by Patrick, a cute guy who has different place for domains, hosting and so on and offered a discount for hosting a phpbb on 100megswebhosting. I saw the prices and I thought that I could easily pay for them, and I wondered why the people on other sites cried so much for the amount of money used to keep the site opened :mmmh: and the necessity to have banners floating around (ok, Tormie was and actually is so "innocent" :doh: ). I thought that I could pay for it with my bus driver wages and I made it. The first address of posetteforever was http://posetteforever.100meg22.com that is still working with a tranfer to here. Later I bought the domain name at ifroggy. We had some problems with 100megswebhosting because of Posy :heartbeat: and Angela (probably Angela a little bit more) who seemed to burn out their server so they suspended our account without notice (It was a real tragedy :doh: :sad: to come home and see that page), so I bought an hosting account at godaddy where we actually are. They solved some slowness problems keeping the database on one of their fast server so that Posy and sometimes Angela can mess around and that is where we actually are :heartbeat: ... About the very first time, I sent invitations to the people I thought who were in the same mood of me and to other friends that I had and still have at poserpros, but surprisingly only 2 or three of them came here and became active members, I thought at it and realized that PF probably is not the right scenario for them, the philosophy of the site is not the concurrency against other similar sites but a totally different approach, playing with 3d art peacefully without the commercial fog all around and don't pushing the users to buy something, directly or not. For these reasons I realized and still think that PF will not grow too much but will remain a small place like a kindergarden and I like it as it is. This is how I came here :lol: ...