POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Is the POV-Ray Community Dying? : Re: Is the POV-Ray Community Dying? Server Time
30 Jul 2024 06:25:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Is the POV-Ray Community Dying?  
From: SharkD
Date: 1 Jun 2010 11:54:21
Message: <4c052d2d$1@news.povray.org>
On 5/22/2010 5:40 AM, Sven Littkowski wrote:
> Since many months it seems to me, that fewer and fewer people are
> participating the POV-Ray news groups. In addition, answers to my postings
> take more and more time to come in.
>
> I wonder, if the POV-Ray community, once famous and gloriful as the render
> software is, is now in the process of ... dying. Is it?
>
>


Probably, slowly. There are other cheap solutions out there, many of 
which are more popular. Most people don't really care about some of the 
advanced features POV-Ray offers, and they are mainly exporting into 
real-time applications like video games anyway.


Mike


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