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 Correlation between { look at who has faved a work look at who watches the original artist find proportion that don't watch artist but fav work is this correlated with the number of users who watch an artist? is it correlated with the number of deviations that have been posted to a particular category? **loyalty correlation } Analysis of comment structure - length, sentence length, punctuation, capitalization, numbers, words in dictionary Analysis of Suggestions Forum: { suggestion URL time suggestion is on Suggestions page number of staff comments number of suggestions per day top commenters in suggestions forum number of closed suggestions per day top suggesters most popular topics most common words used number of necro'd threads (3 months) plot how long a thread will last based on time of day posted and day of week posted } Gallery revision mock up [link] Track new users to see percentage that go inactive [link] Things that are generally popular: --large # of emotes --things that glow --things that move --tutorials --cute/chibi things --stamps --things that are colorful --tilt shift --females --fandoms --scenery --memes --time-intensive works --visually uncluttered --things that look like dA (color scheme, apps) Suggestions: [link] Quotes: dA seems to see what people ask for, then do something completely different to please them. [link] You know. I really do appreciate all the heartfelt kindness that I'm getting from this article. Trust the dA administration to mock the community when beneath all the bitching there are real problems that they refuse to admit to. DeviantART Loves you! [link] add new features yes, disable the old choices - no [link] I love that you think you know what goes on I also love that you think that this has anything remotely to do with you lol - [link]I love how a non-staffer tells someone incorrect information on a journal that's trying to break down a lot of misinformation flying around  [link]I'm in love with .. well love  [link]DeviantART is known for visual art, and including music would confuse people [link] So much for intuition when using the site. [link] Will I leave? Probably not. Will I rant and rave about it? Yes. Will DA fix anything I rant and rave about? No. [link] History proves that despite not liking change, we learn to adapt and embrace it. More like resign to it. [link] By removing [the search bar], you emphasize the beautiful logo. [link] it sounds like dA's left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing [link] [Hosting a chat session] for a community with all sorts of users around the globe, instead of doing it through a forum where time is not a factor, is amazingly poor planning [link] It makes me laugh that this site has gone through so many upgrades & "upgrades" that they still haven't worked out how to do it properly! Some of the reactions, if you're lucky enough to get them, have been along the lines of "put up with it or leave", or "we have been working so hard, how dare you say anything negative!" [link] there is a reason for every change i make, it's sometimes better to think about why i've done it rather than simply complaining about it [link] World-altering revolutions start with simply complaining. [link] A few extra clicks, a little extra digging, not that big a deal, right? ... We literally handle hundreds of reports a day, thousands a week, and that little extra time over and over again turns into a very big chunk of time [link] I have some great ideas. [link] Change for the sake of change is not a rule to live by. [link] why induce mass hysteria? hope you guys live up to the hype you're creating. for your own sake. [link] He equated it to DA turning in to Chuck E Cheese Pizza, with tokens for games [link] Desire for a Mature Content Filter that discriminates between Sexually Mature and Violence [link] Help Desk: Report a problem with the text that appears by clicking on the SitBack widget - it is illegibly small because the widget is placed in the side bar of the Layout B in a group and the entire widget is scaled down in size -- Report is marked as invalid, claims the feature I have described is not a bug, states it is my fault for putting the widget in the side bar and insinuates I should know better, even though this is not a group I control. I have to ask myself, why bother going to the trouble of properly reporting a legitimate bug if it is going to be dismissed before a developer even sees it? Why should a user care more about a site than the administrators? If this sort of thing already happens, what is done about it? Nothing? [link] [dA Muro] will be the most epic abused thing ever in existence on DA, mark my words. [link] Unify the staff communications into something more useful than the lie that is the Zendesk. [link] I have a goal of bringing this successful marriage of Art & Work to as many of our artists as possible. [link] [link] [link] [link] I am not going to criticize the Administration, but it's Ok at best. [link] Whats wrong with just enjoying the site like everyone else? [link] [link] deviantART is a massive social network with visitor and page view totals that place it in the top 100 of all trafficked websites on the Internet. [link] Every time there's a criticism of this site, especially in news articles, I see admins responding to these concerns with condescension, anger, and dismissal [link] I'm past the no-return point concerning my feelings for dA. I no longer believe in change. [link] Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has [link] I question why it should be limited because some will abuse it, that to me is like saying, as a random example, everyone can't walk over a bridge because some will jump off it. [link] Sadly, I don't expect any change, I've come to expect nothing less than closed minds when dealing with the beast that is the dA Admins (individually they're fine from what I know, but as a group...) [link] I can think of several artists who keep off-site profiles, and some display art not hosted on dA. I think artists should have a right to post a link to their own site since the entire purpose of dA is to provide greater exposure for artists. However, if even even a portion of an off-site page contains a mature section, dA will suspend the user for linking to it. I think there should be a section in the devInfo widget for artists to link to their own site, but only allow users to access that link if they have the mature filter enabled. Those people who got suspended for doing so deserve it. [link] Chance favors the connected mind [link] It's a seeeecreeeeettttttt. [link] Mandatory Optimism Thanks for spending many nights running on nothing but coffee and presumably some sort of amphetamines [to work on dA Muro] No problem at all. Seeing the internet flooded with poorly drawn penises makes it all worth it. [link]At time of writing, my name appears at the top of the Top Scores for both the Get Puzzled and the Snowball Fight lists: [link] & [link] . Yes, a program was used to accomplish those times, though I would like to point out that I wrote every line of code of the program myself, rather than using something off-the-shelf (so to speak) that others used (to slow the clock of their computer). My point in doing so, if there should be a point, is showing that dA has recognized a problem but failed to fix it, and even continues to build on the same flawed system. When the Puzzled Flash app first came out, people were exploiting it in very much the same manner as they do now. The response of the staff was to clear the High Scores a total of two times (within a few days of the launch of the app). With this most recent release of the Snow Flash app, no changes were made and the same problem still exists. I feel it should be very clear that either the scores should be regularly cleared (or by default only show the highest scores for the week/month or something like that so that faked scores are not a permanent blight on the site), or not have any Top Scores at all (or even better would be to compare your scores with your friends, limiting the exposure and removing the ability to cheat in a public manner). Anyone with access to the proper tools can fake scores in the app, and relying on no one to ever do so is ridiculous - the app therefore was not designed correctly for its intended purpose and should be fixed accordingly. But like so many other things, from forum posts being permanently lost after three days (the forums have not been searchable for the past two years) to News not being available for groups [link] or after a certain point for personal accounts [link] - if it wasn't fixed in the original design cycle, it's destined to remain broken for all users to contend with. Suggestions Forum Revamp [link] Being a GM is a double-edged sword. The good outweighs the bad and I have more friends than detractors. [link] It's very saddening to see such an important, core feature of the site removed [link] I can't draw, so I compensate by proofreading [link] <spyed> I hate trolls. #Auditorium Featured Chat 3/14/11 [link] We always aim for these features to be great, but sometimes we miss the mark and have to revisit their implementation. [link] Why can't we simply up the number [of search results] and be done with it? IT'S HARD! [link] Reaching Mars is hard [link] Could and should we have pre-announced the change, explaining when it was coming and why it was needed? Yes, absolutely. [link] One of the main issues we're currently working on is the network architecture of how "official" deviantART information is distributed. [link] We will be releasing some public facing API's this year. [link] [link] In v.8 you will have that possibility [to fav journals] [link] I am quite against FAVE TEH JOURNALS, because that would be another race of popularity [link] How can one moderator put [my work] up as a DD and another see it as explicit porn? [link] But, if we find a way to get around [comments made by a banned user being attributed to a new user with the same name], [reclaiming of banned accounts] could totally happen [link]  Ok, correct me if I'm missing the obvious, but what if comments made by a banned user were hidden, much like spam messages are now, so instead of "Hidden by Owner" or "Flagged as Spam", there's a new tag "User has been Banned" - there is no longer a record other than the fact a comment was made, and there's no longer a tie to the account that was banned. So once old comments are hidden, and the account name removed from the other users following the banned user, the banned account name could be treated as a fresh entity with no prior history. I figure this system wouldn't be too different from the current setup since banned accounts cannot respond to comments at present, the only major loss I foresee would be that comments made by banned users would not be able to be referenced anymore, but given that a banned user may have commented inappropriately elsewhere on the site and the comments have not been hidden, this may be a benefit to sanitizing the content displayed on dA once a user is banned. The new user could also face a small problem if the original account spammed a lot to the point they are on many users' block lists, meaning the new user would still be blocked by many users. I presume this setup would be desirable over removing the new account from all blocked lists on the off chance the new account is claimed by the same user who got their account banned in the first place. However, I'd envision a waiting period between when an account is banned and when it can be reclaimed to discourage the same user from picking up the account immediately after they're banned using proxies or some other technique to get around the current roadblocks that are in place to keep users from ban evading.Would this be a viable solution to the problem you pose? [link] 3.) So... what's with the gender transformation of Caramel? 3a.) Different people working on different scenes, without telling each other about a random colour swap they did on a BG pony? ... But I prefer the Fanon. [link] I see people claim they are bored with deviantART, or that they don't like how things are here, so they sign up for other communities and networks [link] 9. 1,131,831 #teentitans July 2005 The most interesting? #teentitans receives 6,500 hits per day on average, and they're a club with a listed hierarchy in the most recent journal that appears to always be there. [link] #MLP-FiM 145K total pgvs, 4K pgvs/day EqD 20Million Pageviews, 200K pgvs/day #MLP-FiM 15K watchers /r/mylittlepony 20K followers Maybe one day [us regular users] will all be cool enough to get badges too. [link] Why can subscribed users not incorporate YouTube videos into Journals? Because it was not coded in to the journal system when it was first developed. [link] dA may not be going down the toilet, but I really don't see it going up hill. [link] I'm not sure dA is the place for me anymore ... if you feel like keeping up with what I'm doing you can find me on Facebook and Google+ [link] A lot of artists are not business people [link] Yes, you read that right I've decided to leave dA. I won't be reactivating my account, so you won't see me back here, ever. It's been a great 8+ years but I just don't think dA is the place for me anymore. My activity on the site has pretty much dropped to zero. This account will be closed on September 1st. If you feel like keeping up with what I'm doing you can find me on Facebook and Google+ So long and thanks for all the fish... [link] Tue Aug 30, 2011, 6:34 PM i am rarely using Deviantart nowadays and will stop using it from now on completely so from now on i´ll post News and new Paintings on my Website only and will Link them on Facebook only [link] What irks me is the way this website is managed. For every thing that is being improved two are being terribly messed up. [link] I've decided to delete more of my works here in DA and only leave the most recognized ones ... I think it's time to move to different stage ... Hope you can follow me ... My work from now on will be posted on my blog and forum in Concept art and sometimes via Facebook [link] He's not shilling links to a website and none of the activity on the account warrants administrative action, bot or not [link] I find you one of more intellectual and understanding deviants [link] "Solutions are not the answer." - Richard Nixon if we do not make changes then we are killed by change itself [link] 2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2-2+2*0 = 0 [link] I am indifferent, I am on the fence, I am the 50% If you are not an artist, you are to play [a] role of encouragement [link] As servants to your creativity, we mean it when we say we love you. All we ask is that you give that love back to your fellow artists and strive to be true deviants. [link] We still need the best and brightest, but we need them to have somehow learned humility along the way. [link] Since no other outcome to this process seems possible, we demand that the [body in charge] immediately assign a [subordinate] to compose a tame and vapid response to this petition, and never attempt to take any meaningful action on this or any other issue. We would also like a cookie [link] dA corporate circles the wagons, closing themselves off from criticism [link] you guys never get tired asking for more settings, then complain about UI looking like control panel of the nuclear power plant [link]Customer perception is everything, and the minute your company is perceived as not-giving-a-damn... that's it. Game over. [link] I want to leave DeviantArt, but I don't know where else to go [link] Instead they post about how we will all love it, with plenty of :la: emotes [link] it's like they went into a classroom and picked the kids who kiss the teachers ass the most. [link] They don't notice the unhappy people around here at all. Look how many former former volunteers are saying things [link] It seems like every former volunteer I know is very VERY bitter about DA now [link] But why do you want to leave, Bill? [link] You cannot get more high profile than having your work featured as a DD. The amount of care put into the description should be equal to that level of prestige [link] People are frankly tired of just being told dA is fucking great and huge and massive and the best shit out there since Tommy Lee discovered cocaine enemas [link] Personally, I've lost all interest here on DA and I think it's time I leave for good [link] FOR OUR NAME IS BRONIES! AND WE ARE MANY! [link] Then, I had it very bluntly pointed out to me that hot topics have a dollar value due to the exposure, and the importance of keeping them to a minimum so the dollar value could be increased so they could be sold to sponsors for stupid soda contests [link] "DeviantArt loves you" ... it feels like it's lip service. [link] Some have asked why I'm leaving. When it boils down to it, I have lost trust and faith in deviantArt's staff. Behind that loss is a mountain of issues: [link] This year (2011), the company nearly doubled in size [link] I've never been able to get into DeviantArt, personally, but I do think Pixiv is pretty frickin’ awesome, and I think some of you will love it too [link] I really don't see the point of continuing with this website. I lost interest and it's becoming dull nowadays. I feel kinda left out so I decided it's time to pack and go. [link] art or not, they cannot deny that it IS a deviation. [link] [link] Nice to see another dA dev who doesn't have a Bachelors in CS  Actually a lot of us, if not the majority, don't! [link] Google response to gmail outage [link] there is a dangerous crusade underway to deprive workers of rights, and this crusade masquerades as tort reform [link] I love to study the history of technology development. The common thread is that most people don't believe it til they see it. But the ones who reap great rewards are the ones who see what it can be before it's there. [link] [I wish we could see] comments based on deviations, page, or journals [link] [I wish we could] filter messages so anything from your friends gets put to the front [link] I'm a software engineer [on dA and] I might skim over critical journals and upset comments, but I'm not the one handling them or responsible for the matters at stake, so I don't engage [link] I have recently tried to be a lot more active on the site, to watch tons more people [link] I was a 22-year-old whippersnapper, and I remember firing off this e-mail that disagreed with the entire executive staff. I didn't get fired -- I got a pat on the back [link] Citing two longtime liberal champions of the First Amendment, Senator Patrick Leahy and Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, Mr. Dodd fumed, “No one can seriously believe Pat Leahy and John Conyers can be backing legislation to block free speech or break the Internet.” [link] The Iraq War—the issue that made Obama the nominee—has been ended on time and, vitally, with no troops left behind [link] Focus on the good and change the bad, that's all you can do. [link] What does the ISS smell like? "It smells clean, like a tidy laboratory, with a hint of machine." [link] Engineers use the world's combined scientific and mathematical knowledge to tackle problems and offer the best solution [link] To date we have 1,751,058,461 Favourites ... What if all of you Watchers of mine got a notification when I +Favourited something? [link] Don't believe everything you read, always test stuff, always [link] We're one of the 100 most visited websites worldwide [link] [link] Basically Republicans are being eaten alive by their own propaganda machine [link] Finally, it's just you and your sanity standing naked, trying to get up the last stretch of the mountains. With a sparkle in your eye and a maniacal laugh you throw your sanity into the fire. [link] May I inquire as to the whyness of that? [link] The world is a stage and the play is badly cast He said it does not make sense to try and lower costs by canceling the programs that were specifically established to find ways to save money [link] it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity [link] Only an engineer can build a bridge that's just on the edge of falling down [link] Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you options [link] The barrier of entry to pet ownership is often too low and allows people to recklessly purchase a pet without considering long-term costs. [link] Satellite Career Appeal: The technology is very sexy [link] Whenever I'm thinking about nothing at all I get a boner. It's like natures screensaver. [link] You should be evaluating what I say based on the factual merit of the content, not on some quality of me as a person. That's true in every aspect of life. [link] Fair Exposure [link] [link] Welcome to DeviantART, I love you [link] |
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