I've known about DeviantART for about 10 years now, had this account for 8 years of those and never have I seen a website be turned into such a mess! I'm used to websites changing, it happens all the time. YouTube had a couple of updates over time as well, and while some were a bit eh at first they never changed what the site was at a base of it all, this was why I could deal with it. I never even complained much about sites changing as I didn't care, as much as I didn't agree with some of the chances. Yes I did complain a bit about Tumblr and while it sucks and made a mayor amount of people leave, it's still Tumblr at the base of it all.
I feel like the internet is slowly kidde'fying everything because: Oh no, we have to think about the younglings!
Which I find ridiculous because as a parent you should be keeping track of what your kid does online in the first place. My parents did this for at least the first 10 years of my life. Not everything is made for kids, Jesus!
But it always appears that, the bigger a website or company gets, the greedier they become and the less they start to focus on what the actual people want.
Even writing this journal is a pain as I have to write at the bottom all the time! I cannot scroll down to get a general view. I didn't mind Eclipse being an option but it feels like DeviantART is just so proud of the trash they produced that they want to shove it down everyones throat whether they like it or not. I understand they'd like to be innovative, but look at Furaffinity! They changed the lay-out but listened to the people and did it in a way that was innovative but didn't change the site at it's core.
This is a nightmare! Privacy is gone, you cannot change that. They say they added tons of new stuff, but removed 20 things, maybe adding 3 things they liked. Core Membership is a disaster, they took most of the things away that made it unique and gave it to others. HTML is no longer a thing so people can no longer customize their pages. I can HARDLY navigate or sort things the way I like. It took me ages to figure out how use the new mailbox and I still hate it. I HATE how groups and artists I follow are all pushed together in one page now so I have to scroll for ages to find the artists and groups I mainly keep track of or older art of the artists/groups I follow! They say they tested this on people but where? They only listen to those who are genuinely positive about this change or ask questions while ignoring literally everyone else. And from what I know only about 10-20% percent uses Eclipse, most other people loved the old lay-out as do I.
If this is the future of DeviantART I sadly do not wish to be a part of it and while I was already very much innactive here I still loved to follow my fave artists. I will do the same as most people and go innactive from May 1th-3th to see what DA thinks of that.
If you want to see me be more active you can follow my Instagram: Lisspeed
Or if you would like to still talk with me and watch me reblog my interests then my Tumblr: Just-Ornstein
You can also ask for my Discord, but I will give a private Note of that.