Re: Goodbyes (was this is the end...)

[Jason S]

On 02/03/16 4:36, Leendert A. Hartog wrote: @Jason - Thanks for the compliment! If and when the need were to arise, I would certainly consider it, but not as a sole moderator. Cool! :) Otherwise perhaps Luc-Eric(?) would also (continue to)  be up to the challenge? But I wouldnt worry to much about it since as you said, such a need has been close to non-existant. Also perhaps interesting to note, although the  DS-List move (orignally much smaller community) was done quite a while ago (2006) it's still going quite strong ; Many posts about all kinds of solutions Ae Pre-Comp Stretch question conform logic in MC Premiere CC deck control MC and Windows 10 And some of the recent (dec-jan) DS related threads among technical and troubleshooting ones, include ; DS 11.1.1 running on windows 10 64 bit :) What AVID killed DS for Joking around about MC drawbacks (still in 2016), like no procedural effect trees, longstanding performance issues, and lack of things as basic as blending modes. and a few (long) threads about pros & cons of what can reasonably replace DS.  Viable DS replacement DS Replacement With comments ranging from things like  <currently nothing can come close to it for my type of tasks>,  to  <moved-on & don't miss it at all>. At least their situation was perhaps somewhat less difficult (not just because it's 2D), as there has been a few different solutions that can come much closer to functionality they were use to (mostly relating to procedural node-based effects on timeline clips) including , Resolve/Fusion combo, the (pricey & now rental-only) Smoke/Flame solutions, and Nuke studio (with AJA hardware) So perhaps similarly at some point on the 3D side, existing or emerging alternatives would evolve in directions making them come closer to the main aspects of what could describe "the XSI expericence", for me alluding to (the combination of), reliability (being able to 'take-it'), -proceduralism-, good overall performance & creation speed, versatility (everything working with everything), and ease of -advanced- use (for technical -artists-),  hopefully happening within the next decade. On 02/03/16 4:36, Leendert A. Hartog wrote: @Jason - Thanks for the compliment! If and when the need were to arise, I would certainly consider it, but not as a sole moderator.  I have learned from my time with the si-community that important decisions such as banning someone shouldn't be taken by one person alone. The si-community has a rule that any temporary or permanent ban must be agreed upon by at least two moderators. That said, IIRC, we only once had an incident that seemed to warrant a temporary ban. Genuine spammers, however, get kicked out without such discretion... Greetz Leendert AKA Hirazi Blue Greetz Leendert AKA Hirazi Blue Softimage hobbyist, admin at si-community.com & xsiforum.de On 03/02/2016 01:14:54, Jason S <jasonsta...@gmail.com> wrote: If such a case would arise, Hirazi? Given your excellent job (also in terms of fairness) in the rare cases when moderation was required at SI-Community, would you be open to moderate the list as well? On 02/02/16 19:01, Jason S wrote: If we want, we could follow their example http://community.avid.com/forums/p/8263/365964.aspx (and avoid the all consuming vortex  ¦P ) Ladies & Gentlemen: Due to reasons all too convoluted to go into here, it has been decided that the original DS list hosted at Softimage.com will be closed down. The community has taken the situation into our own hands and moved to a new home. We've now passed 270 members. If you'd like to join us, visit the list web page at: http://groups.google.com/group/DS-List/ At least for us, all previous messages would be kept and new ones added at the same place, except subscriptions & posts would just be sent through at a different list @googlegroups.com address. On 02/02/16 10:23, Bradley Gabe wrote: I appreciate the sentiment folks, you've already thanked me enough over the years. :-) For the first time, I am concerned that the list might disappear once and for all, and possibly without warning. At the moment, this has been my only contact with the old user base. I'm afraid if the list goes, I won't be able to keep up as I am being sucked into an entirely different, all-consuming vortex.