I've been on deviantart longer than 90% of the current member base, have posted more photography than 90% of the "photographers" here, and actually submit on a consistent basis, yet I still only have 7000 page views.
I'm not excited anymore, but I'm going to keep posting what I believe is good photography.
I miss the old deviantart, like when it wasn't saturated with meaningless sketches put into a public category rather than scraps, myspace "bathroom mirror portraits", countless flowers, household pets, and random crap people post just so they can share stuff with their buddies.
I miss the old deviantart, like when you could post a street or portraits/miscellaneous photo and see your art on the photography -> street or photography -> portraits -> miscellaneous page for an hour, and you'd actually get deviation views sporadically for a few days instead of only the first 30 minutes after you actually post.
I miss the old deviantart, like when you could actually hope for a daily deviation, because you were one of a few thousand artists on the site. The chances now of getting a daily deviation is completely proportional to how popular you already are, not how good your art is. Just how many daily deviations are presented concurrently? I don't think it's gone up in proportion to the number of artists submitting their art.
I think it's horrible that the exposure a deviation gets to the rest of the deviantart community is determined by the time of day it gets posted. Posting something at 1am on a weeknight gets a quarter as many views as posting it at 4pm on a weekend. What gives? I don't think it's fair to show "latest deviations" as a sorted list of whatever has been posted most recently. It would be more fair to take all the images of the last specified time period (1 day, 1 week, 1 month, etc), and weight them inversely by page views. If you posted a deviation 6 hours ago and it hasn't received any views, it should be shown more often in the category landing/index page than an image that's been viewed 100 times in the last hour. If the viewer really wants to see "popular" images, they should select Most Popular.
Is this actually implemented already? How is category landing page display of "recent" images actually being done?
There seems to be no rhyme or reason to how someone becomes popular on DeviantArt without posting nudes or furry/anime fan sketches on an hourly basis.
What happened to the Art?
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DeviantArt Has Cancer.
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Tired of screaming over the noise of bullshit posted here.
Tired of the uninspired photography passed off by people calling themselves "professional" simply because they have an expensive camera.
Tired of the cellphone-selfies.
Tired of the _scraps_ posted in public categories.
Tired of copypasta.
Tired of screencaps.
Tired of cosplay.
Tired of the cancer.
Tired of the uninspired photography passed off by people calling themselves "professional" simply because they have an expensive camera.
Tired of the cellphone-selfies.
Tired of the _scraps_ posted in public categories.
Tired of copypasta.
Tired of screencaps.
Tired of cosplay.
Tired of the cancer.
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To the Deviantart world
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With the exception of a few select amazing individuals, you disappoint me.
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Sabbatical.
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I might or I might not post art here again. Convince me, DeviantArt.
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llama
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llama!
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WTF, DeviantArt?
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