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Ashley

DeviantArt
04 May 2024, 10:33 AM

I went to DeviantArt to update some info and add links on where to find me. I'm hilariously late with these kinds of notes. I haven't used my DA account for years by now and I don't really think anyone still left there would even remember me or anything, but I wanted some sort of closure to that time, I guess. And. Wow. DeviantArt haven't stopped being shitty ever since Eclipse, huh. I couldn't write a journal entry because I couldn't properly see what I'm writing and I couldn't redact my profile either because of that. I got really frustrated and left without doing anything. I probably will try again later but I'm still salty about how DeviantArt threw everything good about it in the trash just to have incredibly horrid disfunctional mess.

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Posted: Saturday, 04 May, 2024 @ 02:27 PM
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I sometimes use the Wayback Machine just to see how good DeviantArt used to be and it pisses me off so much how they threw all that away. I've been having huge bugs on that website that haven't been fixed since Eclipse was made mandatory, such as text getting all jumbled as you're typing it and the whole website is ugly and hard to navigate now. It was perfectly functional before, they really did just kill themselves. If I didn't still use dA to browse, I'd have just deactivated my account already. It's really sad.

Posted: Sunday, 05 May, 2024 @ 04:45 AM
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@marven4lyf: Oh yeah, the way DA has changed is just so absurd. I tried to write a journal entry and the pop-up window just seemed zoomed in so parts of what I was writing weren't visible. I wonder if it's just because I'm using desktop version from mobile, but the thing is, old DA didn't glitch like that, mobile or not. Now everything takes so many clicks and scrolling to get to the point it's crazy. I wonder what they were thinking with, taking away all functionality. I still keep an account because of nostalgia, but I can't use this site at all now so it's as good as deactivated lol.

I wonder just who looked at this half-baked mess and went, ""yeah that's great let's implement it!"".

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Posted: Saturday, 04 May, 2024 @ 04:46 PM
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Oh jeez, if you left before the Eclipse UI rolled out, I can imagine you're discombobulated. From the drop-down menu under your avatar in the top-right, click the dinosaur icon on the "Theme" line to get the green colour scheme. It's not the old layout, but at least it's a bit more familiar.

But yeah, the site is a wreck, literature is a nightmare, and searching is virtually useless. With the full-throated pivot to AI-gen and monetizing literally everything they can, I'm seriously considering sunsetting my gallery. Why almost none of my friends have joined me here I still can't figure out. HAV - H.G. Wells 3

Posted: Sunday, 05 May, 2024 @ 05:10 AM
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@Thorvald: Thanks! I've left soon after Eclipse rolled out, then kept returning to it to see if they got any better, only to discover that everything went to pits even further. At least they returned the old colors, ahah. Seriously, who thinks putting stark white and pitch black together is a good idea.

Yeah, I get that sites need to stay afloat somehow but that's just ridiculous. Like they put "theme builder" button in my options but turns out all the themes are only for the core members or whatever they're calling it now. Why put it in my options then? And make it stand out so much? Ahah. It feels like navigating a big ad now instead of an actual site. It's just sad.

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Posted: Sunday, 05 May, 2024 @ 04:15 PM
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@abyssEden: The sad part is, this all might have been avoided had dA been honest about its cashflow back in the mid-2010s when people started speculating the site was in a short. Staff adamantly denied it even as the Core rebrand hiked fees... until the Wix buyout confirmed spyed & Co. had basically run the ship into the ground. (The real April Fool's prank was Staff finally copping it was a buyout and not a "partnership".) The relentless rent-seeking over the past four years shows that they've abandoned any shred of dignity in pursuit of easy money: when Eclipse first launched, they boasted they'd sworn off ads; now even official announcements feel like you're stumbling through a gaudy casino. HAV - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Posted: Monday, 06 May, 2024 @ 07:53 AM
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@Thorvald: Wow, so it went that far back... Didn't know. Geez, that's just so stupid of them.

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