Deviant art view my past comments3/16/2023 ![]() Probably other things I can't remember anymore. For example, even for artwork I explicitly marked as downloadable they forced you to sign in for it. They added a bunch of dark patterns to make people create an account. This was very confusing to me at first and made it inconvenient to use the site the way I wanted - the fact that every click took ages to load didn't help either. When viewing an artwork, the default thing they did was guide you to a "similar" artwork from the entire site. They made it difficult to browse through single artist's gallery. I think they fixed that eventually, but it was too late. Viewing a single artwork froze my browser and took a minute or two of fans on full before anything showed on screen. Off the top of my head, some of the reasons:Īfter the redesign the site was practically unusable on my computer. The only thing I miss is contact with a few artists I got to know through the site. Some time after the redesign I deleted everything and now I only rarely visit the site. I used to have an account with a bunch of art there. It's UX has always been a bit of a mess, now its still that way, just differently. While many attribute this to the "redesign" I think that's largely a red herring (the sites been redesigned several times, everyone kvetched ferociously and got over it) but its the underlying drivers of what the site is trying to extract from users, and the manner by which it is going about it that is more of whats detrimental to its long term stability let alone growth. The site still has some charms, and its print service is still quite good, but overall it's killed much of the community that built it, and is trying to become.something that it doesn't seem to have articulated very well. It's had a long history of junior management/hubris making avoidable errors and missing opportunities to lead (I also attribute this to being led from LA, by very inexperienced management, where media/content properties see things through a very Big Content distorted prism in and of itself). The site got bought by Wix a few years back and is a mixed bag at this point. Former gallery admin/volunteer staff here (2004-2008):
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