Hacked

[glorybound]

Yeah, it is a ghost town. About the time they changed the forum is about the time things went dead. I don't know if it is because there is no app for the new forum or if it's because most went to the Corona forum. I guess everyone could just be too busy. It would be ashamed if forum went away.

[vlado]

Is it just me or is the forum spammed by Chinese hackers every night? It is usually the first 8-9 New Topic pages and has been all week, if not longer.

It's not you, there's definitely been more of this since we made the forum visible to search engines. We've added an "I'm not a robot" confirmation for posts as a last resort, hopefully it will help.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Syclone1]

That I'm not a robot really tripped me up this morning, totally missed in and was trying to post earlier and kept getting errors till my brain kicked in and saw the button lol.

[vlado]

That I'm not a robot really tripped me up this morning, totally missed in and was trying to post earlier and kept getting errors till my brain kicked in and saw the button lol.

Yeah, I'm sorry about that; there seemed to be no other way right now with vbulletin 5.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Syclone1]

Yeah, I'm sorry about that; there seemed to be no other way right now with vbulletin 5.

Best regards,
Vlado

No need to apologize my friend if it keeps the crap out of the forum then its worth it IMO.

[francomanko]

facebook,...i mean its not a good place. Like a self induced police state..yuk.

[glorybound]

It is odd that Facebook would be the place to meet. Isn't Facebook kind of dead to the younger crowd? Unless that is where the dinosaurs are going.

[piotrus3333]

this is still the best place for pro vray stuff. I'm not going anywhere. no way.

[super gnu]

yeah but ive gotta say, ive got 3 outstanding issues in the "problems" section for the last week or so, with no replies.. a few years ago id have expected replies from chaos in hours! i guess they are a much bigger company now, cant deal with everyone.

back in the good old days (circa 2005) i flagged a problem with vrayfur here, and within 15 hours vlado sent me an updated build with the issue resolved... i fear those days are long gone (not to criticise the guys here.. as i said, hard to do that kinda service when youve grown as much as chaos have).

[piotrus3333]

I would say dedicated tech support channel is there for getting help asap. "problems" section is for more relaxed issues.
used it not a long time ago. got sorted just fine.

[super gnu]

I would say dedicated tech support channel is there for getting help asap. "problems" section is for more relaxed issues.
used it not a long time ago. got sorted just fine.

ahh yeah of course, if it was urgent i would have emailed them.. however ive just noted that it seems to take rather longer to get a response than in the past.. maybe a combination of clientbase growth, the guys being busy with Next and TotalChaos, and many people drifting over to the facebook page..

[OPEN_RANGE]

Forums have been invaluable to me. I cannot overstate that. I have no opurtunity for interaction or critique with others in my field aside from forums. Starting with the early compuserve 3ds which was very helpful but fizzled when compuserve became obsolete. I got lot?s of help from CGarchitect but it became so popular it diluted the effectiveness for me. I came to this forum after leaving cgarchitect. This forum is much more focused and has been very helpful to me in many ways (thanks to all). The ADesk max forum is, for me, useless.

I hope this forums lives on, history seems to suggest the inevitable evolution to something else

[tue_nguyen]

I think the main reason is many member on corona forum (include famous 3d artist) can share their knowledge and always have people reply your question. But with vray forum, i can't get information, i think contact support will be faster. But with support we can't conversation and get more knowledge. They don't have time for conversation.
Post a question and never give a reply or comment. It's really bad.

[super gnu]

well if we have people who think this forum is "really bad" then we have fallen far. ive always considered the vray forum to the the best i ever frequented..

[glorybound]

Personally, I wouldn't say the forum is "bad" now, I would say that it is not nearly as active as it was.