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this list is not all inclusive
  • Screenshots
    • previous versions of deviantART
    • HOW deviantART has changed
    • things you don't like (no trolling, flames, rants)
    • items needing improvement & how you want them improved
    • things you love and why you love them or how you use them
  • Deviations
    • new ideas or applications for deviantART
    • updates to current technology and why it would be beneficial
    • how a specific application is not working and how you might fix it
    • add-ons that would be helpful to the community or to the use of an application
  • Policy
    • ideas for a new FAQ
    • revisions of existing FAQs
    • guides on finding, using, or understanding dA policy
  • Tutorials
    • using deviantART
    • editing deviantART
  • Stamps
    • declaring what you like
    • declaring what you don't like
    • declaring what you want changed


we reserve the right to refuse any submission
  • No rants, trolling, or screenshots displaying unhelpful information.
  • All "dislikes" must be accompanied by an idea to make it better.
  • Screenshots including identifiable information must have that information removed.
  • No $taff bashing! That is not what we are here for.

If Your Submission is Refused...
We will not tell you why your submission was refused. If you would like to know why, please post on the submission request that you would like to know why, and we will reply with the reason. The most common reasons for a submission being refused are if it is a rant, has names in it, or if it is completely unhelpful to the community or $taff.






:bulletblue: The Good
deviantART is the world's largest online art community. The site is just pouring with artistic talent of all kinds, and people of all stages of life, and all backgrounds, united under a single website, for a single purpose: To express and create in the way that they feel is most artistic for them. Whether they be photographers, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, or art appreciators and supports, deviantART offers a place for all of us to come together, where otherwise we most likely would not have been able to.

The multitude of things that deviantART has to offer is astounding! Site features such as Groups, Portfolios, Chatrooms, Forums, Critiques, Favorites, and useful tools like Muro make the site great. However, it is also the people on the site, who provide support, love, tutorials, teaching, help, and fun, that makes the site also great. A wonderful set of Staff and Volunteers also help with Daily Deviations and other features, News Articles, and new features!


:bulletorange: The Bad
deviantART is a terrible place! Art Thieves and Trolls run around everywhere, tracers and spammers. People who break policy, and deviantART Staff does nothing about it! Things that are against their policies, they allow! They sit there and weasel our money out of us, while not doing anything at all, bringing features that we don't want or need, and doing absolutely nothing to help whatsoever. The site is run poorly, and the amount of hateful people on it just serves to make it a most horrible experience!


We must accept both the positive aspects of the site AS WELL as the negative aspects of the website. An understanding of both will allow us to know how to proceed to make this place as great as it can possibly be. This group shall serve to host all of the good things about deviantART - Tutorials, Features, Praise of the Site - as well as the bad - Advertisements, Complaints, Frustration. Through an understanding of both sides of the coin, we can make a change, and through change, we can make this the best community that it can possibly be!


This group was originally created by ~SparkLum and `parallellogic.
Now, this group is run by `The-Lantiis.
Our icon was created by ~SparkLum.

About Us

This group's purpose is to shine light on all aspects of the deviantART website and community, both positive and negative.  We aim to provide a better understanding of the features that make this site outstanding while simultaneously recommending improvements where the site is deficient.






This group is NOT for...

Trolling & Callouts
Hatemail to the $taff

This group is about...

User Feedback: Share the YAYs and NAYs
A Safe Place to Voice Opinions
Bring Understanding of the Rules to the Community
Strategize Fixes to Problems on dA
Help Refocus some of the Negativity on dA
Create a Roadmap for the $taff on where we want the site to go...
And more!

Help make a change!
Join #deviantChange!

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:iconnekomailjeevas:
=NekoMailJeevas Apr 17, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I find it hard on this computer to report a bug, so I'm just saying it here.
I have a Mac OS X 10.5.8 and am using Safari and Opera, the commissions widget isn't working. On Safari, the page goes blank, on Opera, it says 'this widget cannot be displayed' for all widgets.

Does anybody know how I can set up the commissions widget then?
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`The-Lantiis Apr 17, 2013   Photographer
Turn your beta tester off and try again. About 80% of the time, it may be a beta bug blocking you (happens to me pretty frequently). If you are successful after disabling your beta tester status, you need to report the bug to the beta tester team at #devBUG.

Otherwise, you can send an email to the help desk team instead of filing a report like normal which can be a lot easier on some devices (like mobile devices).

Short of the traditional way of adding the widget to your profile, I don't know how to get that widget up and running.
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=NekoMailJeevas Apr 17, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Okay~ Thanks!
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*issuldra Mar 2, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Another question (wow I spam you guys)
I honestly thought dA's pts could be converted back to cash for a fee, but the Points page is saying that's not possible. Is there, and if not, could a means for doing that be accomplished? I have clients who want commissions, but can only pay in pts. Unfortunately, I need cash right now.
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`The-Lantiis Mar 2, 2013   Photographer
Last I heard and experienced, if you use the Commission Widget (a widget you place on your profile and edit to show your commission info and prices), they can pay in points and you can withdraw that as cash through there. Your sales through that widget have their own area and members simply purchase using a button on the widget. They can communicate with your through there too. Try that :heart:
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*issuldra Mar 2, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
THANK YOU SO MUCH gawd I could hug you guys.
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`The-Lantiis Mar 2, 2013   Photographer
You are very welcome!
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*issuldra Jan 22, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Is there any way to make it so people can personalize what they see/don't see while browsing artwork on the main page?
For example:
I always keep my page at dA.com set to view the newest submissions. This way, I can see different artists beyond the most popular ones. I've actually bumped into a few nice artists that way. Unfortunately, submissions to the new "Fetish Portraits" show up from time-to-time, and they're rarely what I'd like to see. Now to each their own and all, but I don't want to see that stuff. Just the same, I still want to be able to peruse the nudes because honestly, how am I supposed to understand anatomy if I don't study it? I imagine other artists could benefit from this sort of thing; some may not want to see anime/manga, fanart, fantasy ect.
TLDR: Is there any way to make it so as not to see certain topics/subjects/categories? Like an advanced search?
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`The-Lantiis Jan 22, 2013   Photographer
Unfortunately not. You can turn off mature content, but that only works so long as artists mark mature content as mature. And you can, as you already found out, choose new or popular media. But right now, that is about it.
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=amaranthine-eternity Jan 9, 2013  Professional General Artist
I don't know if anyone has raised this before, but Fanfiction used to have a free download of a word-processer (office libre), for anyone who didn't have word. It would be nice if DA had such a thing for picture editing/colouring (like a better version of gimp or sai). Muro is all well and good, but it's only available if you're online.
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