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Update:
I enjoyed this conversation with you guys a whole lot. It gave me an opportunity to say a lot of stuff I've been meaning to. If you stumble into this post from July 2015, it contains a nice snapshot of where the communities politics were at, and what insights I had to provide for members.
Thank you guys for being civil, and feel free to link people to these answers:
DA and Mobile Traffic - A Direct Response About the DA Website
DA and Mobile Traffic - A Detailed Dive
The Profile Widgets - What can you tell me about their future?
DDs - Updates to come
DDs - What happened to the footer?
Profile Page - When will it be updated?
DeviantArt Shoes - What happened to them?
Tags - What is the priority?
Community Moderation - What is the future?
Questions from a Senior Member
Community Services - What's the deal with the Help Desk?
What is DA's biggest challenge?
Will you marry me? And Hey, what's going on with the mobile app?
Desktop - Changes to come
Literature - Exciting changes!
Original Post:
Happy Saturday! I'm hanging out at home, so I thought I'd have an open conversation. Post anything, I'll reply. It's about 11:30am, I'll be in front of this thing for two hours before I go to my god daughters 7th birthday party! Yay!
If you're wondering what we're up to, check out the DeviantArt Timeline ( www.deviantart.com/timeline/ ) -- It might compel you to ask some questions. Or, if there's anything you've been wondering about, ask!
Here's some food for thought to get you started about the overall state of DeviantArt:
Our team focuses on two things that matter most to us, the first is our mission to Entertain, Inspire & Empower the Artist in All of Us. We have tackled this notion to the ground, the root sentiment that's marketable, part of our product, and a direct driving force for our team: We are here to nurture your creative nature.
We take this notion and we use it as a lens to drive forward our goals. Our goals are all based off of growth for core active members. This means people like you, if you're here responding. We have millions and millions of "Spectators" on DeviantArt who lurk and check stuff out, they aren't our focus. Our focus is you. The more members, the healthier DeviantArt is.
This is what fuels the projects that go into the timeline. Each timeline post invites a conversation from the community, we absorb the feedback and we directly function against it. Occasionally we get an incredibly confusing mixed bag of feedback, in those cases we refer to data, and sometimes our own intuition to resolve.
This is DeviantArt, Inc. That's what we do.
We're facing some challenges! Most notably, the world is moving to mobile, yet some of you hate mobile.
At the same time, it's not a joke. DeviantArt two years ago was 12% mobile, it is now 40% mobile. You could do some rough math and learn that we'll be more than 50% mobile in January of 2016, right around the corner. This means our team is investing heavily in building our android and iOS apps, and soon repositioning our mobile web experiences.
Our rebrand last year allowed us to arrive to Our Story - We did this to help us articulate DeviantArt on smaller screens, bigger screens, new platforms, and beyond. We also did this to help absorb more talent into DeviantArt that may or may not be from the community, but to still allow their unique talents to be applied to DA by understanding who we are more easily. This has been very effective, our User Experience and Product teams have permitted us to function the way that I describe above: Completely transparently on all product builds. It's allowed us to institutionalize listening.
We hope you are feeling these constructive effects, but at the same time we're aware that you're facing issues with the platform (Groups, mobile web, message center, and so on) and we're working on each of those. Feel free to ask about specific stuff.
Anyway, ask any questions I'm here to answer for a few hours today!
update: I'm heading to that event, but I have absolutely loved sharing feedback directly to you all, so please keep the questions coming. I'll get to them another time just don't be upset if it isn't as immediate as it has been the past few hours.
I enjoyed this conversation with you guys a whole lot. It gave me an opportunity to say a lot of stuff I've been meaning to. If you stumble into this post from July 2015, it contains a nice snapshot of where the communities politics were at, and what insights I had to provide for members.
Thank you guys for being civil, and feel free to link people to these answers:
DA and Mobile Traffic - A Direct Response About the DA Website
DA and Mobile Traffic - A Detailed Dive
The Profile Widgets - What can you tell me about their future?
DDs - Updates to come
DDs - What happened to the footer?
Profile Page - When will it be updated?
DeviantArt Shoes - What happened to them?
Tags - What is the priority?
Community Moderation - What is the future?
Questions from a Senior Member
Community Services - What's the deal with the Help Desk?
What is DA's biggest challenge?
Will you marry me? And Hey, what's going on with the mobile app?
Desktop - Changes to come
Literature - Exciting changes!
Original Post:
Happy Saturday! I'm hanging out at home, so I thought I'd have an open conversation. Post anything, I'll reply. It's about 11:30am, I'll be in front of this thing for two hours before I go to my god daughters 7th birthday party! Yay!
If you're wondering what we're up to, check out the DeviantArt Timeline ( www.deviantart.com/timeline/ ) -- It might compel you to ask some questions. Or, if there's anything you've been wondering about, ask!
Here's some food for thought to get you started about the overall state of DeviantArt:
Our team focuses on two things that matter most to us, the first is our mission to Entertain, Inspire & Empower the Artist in All of Us. We have tackled this notion to the ground, the root sentiment that's marketable, part of our product, and a direct driving force for our team: We are here to nurture your creative nature.
We take this notion and we use it as a lens to drive forward our goals. Our goals are all based off of growth for core active members. This means people like you, if you're here responding. We have millions and millions of "Spectators" on DeviantArt who lurk and check stuff out, they aren't our focus. Our focus is you. The more members, the healthier DeviantArt is.
This is what fuels the projects that go into the timeline. Each timeline post invites a conversation from the community, we absorb the feedback and we directly function against it. Occasionally we get an incredibly confusing mixed bag of feedback, in those cases we refer to data, and sometimes our own intuition to resolve.
This is DeviantArt, Inc. That's what we do.
We're facing some challenges! Most notably, the world is moving to mobile, yet some of you hate mobile.
At the same time, it's not a joke. DeviantArt two years ago was 12% mobile, it is now 40% mobile. You could do some rough math and learn that we'll be more than 50% mobile in January of 2016, right around the corner. This means our team is investing heavily in building our android and iOS apps, and soon repositioning our mobile web experiences.Our rebrand last year allowed us to arrive to Our Story - We did this to help us articulate DeviantArt on smaller screens, bigger screens, new platforms, and beyond. We also did this to help absorb more talent into DeviantArt that may or may not be from the community, but to still allow their unique talents to be applied to DA by understanding who we are more easily. This has been very effective, our User Experience and Product teams have permitted us to function the way that I describe above: Completely transparently on all product builds. It's allowed us to institutionalize listening.
We hope you are feeling these constructive effects, but at the same time we're aware that you're facing issues with the platform (Groups, mobile web, message center, and so on) and we're working on each of those. Feel free to ask about specific stuff.
Anyway, ask any questions I'm here to answer for a few hours today!
update: I'm heading to that event, but I have absolutely loved sharing feedback directly to you all, so please keep the questions coming. I'll get to them another time just don't be upset if it isn't as immediate as it has been the past few hours.
How's it going?
How's it going around here? At a glance, it appears that the recommendations team is doing a fantastic job with the home environment. The quality of stuff I'm interested in is way up- all fresh and recent. I don't see much AI artwork, which was really over-taking the place for a moment. How's everyone feeling these days? I've had a fun break. Didn't know how much I needed it.
A New Chapter Begins
Dearest Deliciously Devious DeviantArt, Our community is not only the largest community the Internet has ever seen; I’ve traveled around the world and met so many of you, and through all of my interactions at Comic-Cons, World Tours, Deviant Meets and random gatherings I’ve always said that the very special bond of creativity that binds us all, actually results in a very caring and sweet group of people. Our community of Deviants are also the best, kindest, most sincere people who have ever congregated at such a scale under one umbrella. I’ve been the Shepard of that umbrella for 22 years, and that has been my greatest joy and my greatest professional love. I’ve tried through all of it to remain centered on the principals and care that each of you have instilled in me, and I’ve tried to push forward standing behind the projects that I felt were the best aligned with our values as a community. The entire journey of DeviantArt has had its many chapters, this past 5+ years at Wix have
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Hi spyed $!
I'm from Berlin/Germany! "Hard Core" in Germany (may be also in other countries) is called the hardest form from pornography. I don't know if you and your staff members are aware of this and if you are conscious that the name "core member" associates to be a member of o porn club or porn site. I'm not prudish but to be associated in this way is real hard core for me! Stop it! Please! I don't like to pay a lot of $$ for DA premium membership and be an associated member of a porn club!
Also "core members" are often called members of a nazi student fraternities. I hope you don't want this meaning also for your paying members $!
Cheers
Michael
I'm from Berlin/Germany! "Hard Core" in Germany (may be also in other countries) is called the hardest form from pornography. I don't know if you and your staff members are aware of this and if you are conscious that the name "core member" associates to be a member of o porn club or porn site. I'm not prudish but to be associated in this way is real hard core for me! Stop it! Please! I don't like to pay a lot of $$ for DA premium membership and be an associated member of a porn club!
Also "core members" are often called members of a nazi student fraternities. I hope you don't want this meaning also for your paying members $!
Cheers
Michael