I wasn't harsh enough.

>>7955617
no, it deserved worse

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>>7955617
For me it was when they changed the UI/UX to Eclipse. Having to find anything through tags is just horrendous. The old model of searching through categories made it so if I only wanted cartoons instead of animeslop, I could filter out the animeslop. Groups also used to be a lot more active and I remember finding a lot of good art I otherwise wouldn't have through them. Having the "More like this" feature on new deviantART is convenient, but that's about it.

>>7955774
DA went to absolute shit the moment they got rid of this design. It was perfect, everything was sorted so well, and it genuinely was the best place for art.

Everyone involved in ruining that needs to die. DA was loved, but its current state deserves all the hatred and disgust in the world.

>>7955617
I left during the mass flagging of nsfw posts. There's also that AIslop dream something that they offered which were inferior to locally hosted SDXL lmao.

>>7955774
Damn this brings back memories
Eclipse just isn't as fun lol.

>>7955774
take me back...

I still like it, but mainly because smaller art communities always trump the big ones. I like how most people on the site don't treat it seriously and just have fun with other artists.

Sheezyart finally won

>>7955617
I've always loved it, even more since Eclipse as it looks more professional now too.

>>7955834
>I left during the mass flagging of nsfw posts.
you'd be happy to know there is now no more control.
you can upload straight up porn lifted from a porn site (watermarked) and resell it.
you can upload loli and cub and shota and rape and necro.
4chan has unironically better QC than DA.

>>7955617
>after everything that happened
what did just happened?

>>7957150
Wait really? Damn is it worth it to crosspost back there as a backup gallery?

>>7957295
Nta but yes. DA brings me the most comms

>>7955617
The site should die. The fact that seemingly every post criticizing the fact that it's purely a front to farm your data atp has been removed I have no choice but to believe that this is an AstroTurf campaign by wix. Fucking kill yourself you keep bastards rot in hell

>>7957295

deviantart still has policies against NSFW but the entire moderation system is AI and it's quite lenient as long as you don't include naughty words.

>>7957300
wait wtf?? Did they actually do that? I could have sworn this thread had like 20 more replied all talking about AI slop and how the they killed the site. What the fuck? Lmfaoi

>>7957304
No the other anon is being schizo, they're the first person to bring up AI slop in this thread, as you can see.

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>>7955617
it was actually good website in 2decades ago. user can upload art,flash stuff,photo... unlike newgrounds, there wasn't score/voting system. so user could upload without pressure.
some of works were still good even nowadays standard

problem is there were too much autist in deviant art.. later in mid 2010s it became wasteland

Why did they delete all the comments from yesterday that were calling out DA for what it is?

>>7955617
What do you mean, its even worse now
>AI slop (that's usually not from their in house AI)
>introducing their own AI and only letting artists opt out after they scrapped all their data
>can't view or download anything without needing an account
>you can't download jack shit anymore, keeping the art (25 years of it) held hostage on their servers
>giving artists the ability to charge for downloads
>on top of the still shitty 2019 Eclipse layout that no one wanted
>on top of the forever shilling literally anything to drain money out of your wallet
And while I don't want to get political, they are owned by an Israeli company, Wix.
The site went to pot as soon as they were bought out by Wix. End of story.

>>7957449
I forgot, they limited search results to only 10,000 making it impossible to find certain things.
They removed search categories.
They removed the ability to search without an account.

>>7957156
Twitter drama recently. Lots against artists. There's even a manga author that had to delete her account because of the massive backlash she's getting.

A site notorious for lot of fetish users and other weird, it somehow, provide a less toxic environment and rarely any drama, then twitter provide that seen a daily routine.

>>7957571
Backlash from what, what did she do? Caught using AI or tracing?

making modern audience shit for them but turn out, they still hate her.

>>7957449
>>7957150
>Checked the site again
>Someone literally just reposted a complete episode of Solty-Rei
Kek

>>7957571
I noticed this only happens in non-japanese twitter

If you're drawing manga and anime, you should just learn Japanese and only interact with japanese people on twitter. Westoids and turd worlders are incapable of having a good online community.