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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
Seeing the world through Rose Colored Glasses
I went to the Whitney Museum in NYC recently to check out the Jasper Johns exhibit. I'm a big fan of his work and I wanted to better understand his twists and turns during the 80's and 90's. Incredible exhibit! The elevator is HUGE and really awesome at the Whitney.. 🥰 This isn't Jasper Johns work but anyway it's me checking stuff out We exited through the gift ship and... We've all heard the expression, "Seeing the world through rose colored glasses", right? Well I had no idea they were such a great life hack.. the Whitney sold these Color Therapy Glasses.. ... and they really work! Especially the magenta ones are just incredible for making the best of a gloomy day. If you've never tried it, I highly recommend a pair. Especially if you're sensitive to gloomy days! I'm not trying to sell products here, but if you want a link on Amazon here it is here it is. There's nicer versions out there but these are $11. ($25 at the Whitney hehe)
Team and GV at NYC
About a month ago we visited NFT NYC to see what all the hype was about. Ran into Gary Vee and Steve J, great to catch up. Einat & Jules ... we're all pretty happy to be out in the world after this long and cold corona winter.. myself, Liat, Jules, and Moti in Times Square.. Crazy to see all of NYC taken over by NFT's. A lot of force behind the movement, a lot of money and celebrities and companies. Still a very polarizing topic, but we still need to learn about it, right? Doing a lot of learning this year...
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Feels like dA is trying to cut spendings in the long run. Unifying deviation/journal/news systems so that maintenance can be easier, limiting uploading so the cost of maintaining the backend databases/files can be reduced...
Also, it looks like the staff wants to make dA compete with other social networks, but instead taking the wrong path. Not that they're wrong, but there should be more focus. This is an art community and a site used to showcase your artistic productions. Journals always had a very distinct concept around them. Deviation is the art you expect to see, journal is just random talk. Promoting random talk as an art piece to other users or into the front page is kind of outrageous, don't you think? This is no facebook. Not to say that making up descriptions and categorizing journals, like we do for deviations, is kind of pointless. Journal as a deviation is just a bloated feature, IMHO, and in the long run will do more harm than good.
Stash looks more like a stock/file sharing platform than anything else. I could be wrong, but i can see that in the future, people will just abuse it for cheap file storage, and create lots of secondary accounts for that purpose. I'm not really expecting the staff to moderate all the users' space and look out for those abuses. Well, as long as stash stays only as a staging area, i don't really mind. And i like how Muro will be integrated into Stash. Unnecessary features together, so we can worry less.
I see too much ambition in this new platform. Also, *chimera-99 just described what i thought when i just read your argument regarding that poll [link] . Is that the only input you have from users to justify the changes? The reasons behind these changes are not really clear to me. Also, ignoring whole critic posts and replying just to the few that are favorable to the changes is not a stance a staff member should have. At least give them a "We will consider" type of response, it's pretty annoying to be ignored like this!
As a side question, will Stash really take place over the old uploading/journal/whatever system in the next dA version?
Also, it looks like the staff wants to make dA compete with other social networks, but instead taking the wrong path. Not that they're wrong, but there should be more focus. This is an art community and a site used to showcase your artistic productions. Journals always had a very distinct concept around them. Deviation is the art you expect to see, journal is just random talk. Promoting random talk as an art piece to other users or into the front page is kind of outrageous, don't you think? This is no facebook. Not to say that making up descriptions and categorizing journals, like we do for deviations, is kind of pointless. Journal as a deviation is just a bloated feature, IMHO, and in the long run will do more harm than good.
Stash looks more like a stock/file sharing platform than anything else. I could be wrong, but i can see that in the future, people will just abuse it for cheap file storage, and create lots of secondary accounts for that purpose. I'm not really expecting the staff to moderate all the users' space and look out for those abuses. Well, as long as stash stays only as a staging area, i don't really mind. And i like how Muro will be integrated into Stash. Unnecessary features together, so we can worry less.
I see too much ambition in this new platform. Also, *chimera-99 just described what i thought when i just read your argument regarding that poll [link] . Is that the only input you have from users to justify the changes? The reasons behind these changes are not really clear to me. Also, ignoring whole critic posts and replying just to the few that are favorable to the changes is not a stance a staff member should have. At least give them a "We will consider" type of response, it's pretty annoying to be ignored like this!
As a side question, will Stash really take place over the old uploading/journal/whatever system in the next dA version?