Dear friends-povers !

All of us know that our lovely oldest but goldest ray tracer has
great potential, but unfortunately not much popular among the modern
community for a couple of reasons: complicated SDL, lack of dedicated
editor (but Blender can export), not enough information in media, etc.

Bill works hard to improve this situation, but the skills and time of
one man is not enough for such complicated and time consuming stuff. I
would like to assist him all ways I can and have a following proposal.

Having conversion service for all popular graphics formats
(https://povlab.yesbird.online/all2pov/) now we can try to attract
people from most active CG communities, at least:
https://www.zbrushcentral.com/
https://www.artstation.com/
https://blenderartists.org/
https://polycount.com/

I am already registered in many of them, and can try to make some
advertising to to POV-Ray there. The main problem I see here is a
lack of modern and convenient communication channel - newsgroups are
outdated and people don't want to take a step (or more) back.
Realtime chats, fast graphics and video exchange is very important when
discussing technical graphics details, so if we need to move forward,
appropriate service is a must have.

You will laugh, but I guess that Discord channel will be the best
solution as it is very popular among CG and gaming society, easy to use
and satisfies all our needs. We can use it not instead, but as addition
to our present newsgroups publishing best images, technical hints, and
answering questions.

What do you think about all of the above ?
Let's make POV-Ray great again ! (Or, maybe, not ?)
-- 
YB

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