ThemeXP was never great, its always been slow full of adds, fruity tutty walls with winders xp baby! with women baring all... *Groundhog Day*

Plus their logons replace your logonui.exe

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Er, as much as I like ThemeXP, and I do, their their wallpaper section is certainly nothing special. It's the same stuff you'll find on any other wallpaper site. There's no moderation whatsoever.

Without trying to stir things up,and get too detailed, I must say that Themexp.org is not even a marginal fraction of what WC is. For starters, I have several walls on there that are doing pretty well in the d'load categories. I used that site as a dumping ground for some walls that were moderated here. While they seem to be doing well, nobody seems to comment on anything.
Second, they are pretty much focused on TGTSoft products,(I understand that TGTSoft owns ThemeXP) and do not diversify outside of that with the exception of walls. But hey, WC doesn't promote Visual Styles either, so it's a slight trade.

I do wish them success though, and I like the site overall, but it is just not up to par at this time compared with WC and DA. I saw recently that they were recruiting web designers proficient with PhP so maybe it will come around someday.

Just my opionion..

PS - forgive my lousy spelling tonight
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Oh stop.. my sides are hurting!!

Phoon: You raise a really interesting issue.

WC has taken an immense amount of grief over the years because WC is so "Stardock oriented" even though only a fraction of the sections here are for Stardock's software.  ThemeXP, on the other hand, is all TGTSoft stuff.  I have no problem with that, but it's interesting that no one seems to have a problem with that.

For example, Dokt left WC over this issue:

https://www.wincustomize.com/msgboard.asp?BID=WC&id=57261#58820

And what's worse, Dokt is the one who writes those nasty anti-Stardock reviews for PC Answers magazine (Andy H).

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I USED to think that WC was pretty much only here to support the Stardock line, until I started opening my yap in the recent war. An admin pointed out my flawed concepts and after reviewing thing more closely, I see that WC is soooo much more indeed.

reason why ThemeXP is slow is cuz there's five times more people visiting the site than any other likewise sites.

I like dead things too

whats themeXP?

my cat's breath smells like cat food.

Was it 'turkey feast' Hus?...that one has a terrible aftertaste...

It is still the reality that the majority of Wallpapers submitted to Wincustomize.com do not succeed/are not accepted.

What 'may' have changed is that on average the 'quality' of submissions has improved through experiential determination.....eg.....people soon wise to the reality that "I made this in 5 seconds cos I was bored to my gourd" will guarantee rejection....and "I found this pic somewhere and tried out my new skillz with PS and filterz" will get nowhere fast as well.

There's considerably fewer "Bryce button push frenzies...gee I made a Torus", less piccies of Aunt Sally, and more submissions that actually might just work well as backgrounds for window/icon/bar placements, etc.....you know, what a 'wallpaper' section is supposed to have...