DeviantArt was purchased by Wix around this time. It lost all kinds of customisation for its users, following suit to compete with the design of the industrial portfolio art site known as ArtStation. DeviantArt tried to 'modernise' its design with a site design that looks like the side of a totalitarian glass-building from a dystopian future when put in dark mode. Yet it rewarded creativity and human effort. It had very social and liberal art attitudes. DeviantArt started out as a great community for young hobbyist artists. Honestly I don't know where to begin in this review. If you want to actually find good quality, SFW content that happens to be in DA, open the search engine of your choice and type in your request, followed by 'site:'.ĭeviantArt is the worst site for artists imaginable. This site is not a safe place for children or teenagers any more (or any adult who doesn't want to be bombarded with NSFW images), which is a shame, as I used to use this site as a teenager and at the time found communities that helped me develop my art.

And this is not logged in, so there is no way to see 'mature content', yet it's still everywhere. Not to mention that you cannot search anything on that site without getting NSFW/fetish art of poor quality. If your computer can handle the site, I have found several forums posts where people have asked DA when they're going to fix the memory issue (if you duckduckgo 'Deviant art memory use' you should find a few, for example, plus some other ratings on this site). And I'm not the only one to point this out. This new Eclipse design, despite looking bad and removing customisation features from users pages (this is an art site, why do that?) in the name of modernisation, has ridiculous RAM usage. I remember using the site in its old design, on an older machine which had less RAM, and I could open as many tabs as I want. Here's my question what do you think would be more likely to use up the RAM on a computer with 64 gigs of it? A: Opening a heavily modded Minecraft loadout, giving the Java Virtual Machine, playing music on Spotify, opening a heavily modded Sims 4 game and multiple Firefox tabs on sites other than Deviantart, or, B: Closing everything but two other Firefox tabs and opening three Deviantart tabs? It's B.

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