dA in 10 years?

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I recently read a forum thread found here: forum.deviantart.com/devart/ge… about where everyone thought deviantART would be in 10 years. Many people said we'd have sold out to MSN or AOL. Others said we'd be limiting uploads for non-subscribers and cutting off access to services.

There's two ways to take this I suppose: Either it's a general feeling that this thing is too good to be true in its current form. Or somehow it's expected that a service growing so quickly would somehow be forced to sell out.

Neither is true. This was my response:

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I think deviantART will be looked upon as a revolution unto itself. Having been able to scale not only it's infrastructure but it's community and spawned sub-communities (within the garden of deviantART) to include the various arts of hundreds of millions of artists worldwide.

And as the ultimate complement, it will be taken completely for granted. A service fully integrated in to daily life, on every pleasing screen you see.

The ultimate entity through which artists deliver their message to all man kind.

We live in remarkable times that demand change, and permit unfathomable growth. Growth that has only practical boundaries defined by the actual size of possibility. And we intend to be a catalyst.

:bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen:


This is the type of energy we try to spread through the ranks at deviantART. And though sometimes I feel I stand alone in my extreme optimism, it is no doubt extreme. Quite generally we're in this for the long haul. The company remains private, we don't intend to take funding from any outside sources and we intend to execute our pure vision in full.

I just wanted to say that.

-- A
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