And to depart that interrelational meta level: Some topics are dense, so if you try to treat them in completeness, you have to write quite a bit. There are posts of mine where your remark would have been quite pertinent, but here you chose a very bad example for your point: Any redaction here could have shortened the post only so imperceptibly.
And yes, I know that it gathers quite a bulk of elements, and that reading it cannot be but hard work, but then, my - as said above, partial - development is meant to exist for the few people really interested in the subject of (general, not-media-files-only) 3dimensional file access; for them, there's lots of very lightweight material on the web to be found, and some very technical, very partial info; I've been striving here to give some sort of overview which treats the multiple problems and aspects of the subject, be them obvious or more conceiled. Most of the time, I strive to give new and complete* information, especially whenever my own web searches have been totally unfruitful in this respect.
-ital2
I think to Ath's point, there is something to be said about topics for mediums, and topics for audiences. Forums aren't really made for long-form dissertations, but rather short-form discussions. For long form, there are other mediums for them, i.e. blogs. I'm not sure if dc still has blogs for members, but if so, then it might work to post your blogs on one, and direct from here to that resource. It is in the end up to you and the management as to what can be posted, so I'm not even speaking to that. But rather adding some objective clarification to what Ath may have meant. Others do the same thing, and get, in general, similar results, so you're of course welcome to continue down that path. But these seem like blog posts rather than discussion fodder.