Not a huge thing, but DeviantArt is/used to be one of the big places for beginning artists to post and share their stuff.
It was pretty big for those who loved the site.
I was a member there for so long I don't remember when I signed up, so it was probably over 10 years. It was a great site. Great artists and a fun community.. I had several commission works done by my favorite artists. And had a bunch of artists I followed. Used to log in several times a day to check for new stuff.
Then Wix bought the site.
They changed an easy on the eyes functional web site into a headache inducing* UI nightmare that was "Eclipse". Their high intensity white on black, "new and improved" UI. With everything moved around so much that it was effectively a new site, without many of the features that made the original site so good. And despite a huge number of complaints and petitions literally begging Wix to not use the their new Eclipse UI they ignored the DA user base and removed the old UI completely.
I canceled my membership about 15 minutes after Wix removed the "use classic interface" option. It took me that long to find the "Cancel my membership" option in the disaster of a UI the site had become.
To be fair there was also a vocal group that loved the new UI and defended it every chance they could.
Really miss the old DA.
* I mean literally. The dark theme that Wix changed to was literally causing eye strain head aches in people, myself included. I couldn't look at the initial new site for more than 5 minutes before the pain started. Wix toned it down a bit in later updates but the UI was still horrible.
Wix also owns DeviantArt (Score:3)
Re:Wix also owns DeviantArt (Score:5, Insightful)
Not a huge thing, but DeviantArt is/used to be one of the big places for beginning artists to post and share their stuff.
It was pretty big for those who loved the site.
I was a member there for so long I don't remember when I signed up, so it was probably over 10 years. It was a great site. Great artists and a fun community.. I had several commission works done by my favorite artists. And had a bunch of artists I followed. Used to log in several times a day to check for new stuff.
Then Wix bought the site.
They changed an easy on the eyes functional web site into a headache inducing* UI nightmare that was "Eclipse". Their high intensity white on black, "new and improved" UI. With everything moved around so much that it was effectively a new site, without many of the features that made the original site so good. And despite a huge number of complaints and petitions literally begging Wix to not use the their new Eclipse UI they ignored the DA user base and removed the old UI completely.
I canceled my membership about 15 minutes after Wix removed the "use classic interface" option. It took me that long to find the "Cancel my membership" option in the disaster of a UI the site had become.
To be fair there was also a vocal group that loved the new UI and defended it every chance they could.
Really miss the old DA.
* I mean literally. The dark theme that Wix changed to was literally causing eye strain head aches in people, myself included. I couldn't look at the initial new site for more than 5 minutes before the pain started. Wix toned it down a bit in later updates but the UI was still horrible.
Re: Wix also owns DeviantArt (Score:1)
That pro-new-UI was likely a fake one by Wix.
These things are way way mor common than people think.
That's why they work.