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In our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing weekly Site Updates to keep members informed and to gather feedback. Below is a list of recent changes to the site, bug fixes, and feedback that was brought up by members in the last Site Update.

What's New


More Like This on Deviation Pages


Please note: This feature is available to a limited number of members and will be rolled out to everyone over time.

We've brought More Like This results to deviation pages, to make the experience of exploring art on deviantART even easier than before! Featuring a mix of art from the artist whose deviation you are viewing and related artwork created by other artists, More Like This lets you delve even deeper into a world of artwork you love.


Change Log

  • In the Message Center, deviation titles and authors displayed incorrectly in Critique stacks. Fixed by $yury-n
  • When using Firefox on Android devices, the keyboard would automatically open on the home page in some cases, due to the search field being auto-focused. Fixed by $banks
  • The Customization > Icons > Misc category briefly did not accept .jpg files. Fixed by $shahyarg
  • In the Journal Portal section of the site footer, the "comments" labels were misplaced. Fixed by $helloandre
  • When changing the category of a Group Journal from "Personal Journal" to anything else, the new category was not saved. Fixed by $helloandre
  • Paging was briefly broken on some pages and modals. Fixed by $shahyarg

Sta.sh / New Submit

  • Dragging the mouse to select was very slow when a large amount of Sta.sh items were present. Fixed by $adahacker
  • The title of the browser tab did not update when the file was renamed. Fixed by $drommk
  • The "Submit Prints" step would consistently generate an "invalid value" error. Fixed by $adahacker
  • Unchecking the "Submit Prints" checkbox when editing did nothing. Fixed by $drommk
  • Editing a Journal's category could cause it to show up in one's Gallery. Fixed by $adahacker

Sta.sh Writer


  • Pressing "Done" in Writer would sometimes remove Sta.sh Writer documents from stacks other than the "Drafts" stack. Fixed by $kemayo
  • Pressing tab when in lists will now indent the list item, if appropriate. Fixed by $Alisey
  • Pressing tab three times would cause the cursor to jump past the current word. Fixed by $Alisey
  • Submitting multiple comments on Sta.sh items without reloading the page would cause problems. Fixed by $inazar
  • For mobile devices, the Sta.sh Writer sidebar covered things up when trying to comment. Fixed by $inazar

Your Feedback


Thank you for the feedback left on last week's Site Update! Quite a bit of feedback was left, and we wanted to address a few concerns that were raised in the comments.
  • Questions were raised regarding the royalty structure of 80% for artists and 20% for deviantART.
    • To put things simply, it costs money to run deviantART. This feature alone required building a new interface for the widget, a My Earnings accounting system, integrations to allow conversion of Points to U.S. Dollars, constructing a range of new backend functions for the Submit process, a new Message Center feature organizing all correspondence about commissions using the widget, and the integration of the deviantART Points platform that permits micro-payments without the buyers using credit cards. The fee helps us build these things, and there is more to come and more to be built.
    • We are considering tiered fees in the future for people who reach monthly sales levels, and for Premium Members, but we’d like to see this spread out onto the site before making those changes, so we can accurately project where the breaks for the different levels should be placed.
    • Anyone who chooses to use the widget will be providing us valuable insight and data that we will use to mold the future of the widget and the forthcoming Portal/search ability that will allow people to browse and discover artists who are offering commissions.
  • There was a concern voiced by some deviants that we would try to make the Commissions widget mandatory. 
    • This is not the case. The Commissions widget is and will be an optional tool that deviants can use, but no one is obligated to use it if they prefer not to.
  • Many deviants were pleased with the updates to deviantART muro.
  • The suggestion regarding a word count in Sta.sh Writer was well received.
  • Some deviants would like a way to sort through deviations in their Message Center based on whether or not the deviations have critique requested. Suggested by ~tisinrei


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This week's Site Update includes an easier way to explore art on the site!
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~El3ctro-Mess May 5, 2013   Traditional Artist
I don't like it.
It shows totally urealated deviations to mine. Mostly what I have favorited.
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~DeadRoseWorks Apr 7, 2013  Student Digital Artist
I would rather have "more like this" taken down or give people either the option of what to put on it or to disable it. It just end up putting artworks of people totally unrelated to mine and I really hated.
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Mood: Unhappy ~BlackFireOtter Apr 6, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I really don't like the More Like This feature at all. It shows art that has nothing at all to do with my deviations and honestly I find it distressing. Also, I liked it a lot better when the "More From *whateverartist" was right next to deviations instead of this.
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:iconbpisek:
I want the "more like this" window off my Deviations.

This diverts people away from my artwork images: not what I want as a Premium Member, as I use this site as a reference to my artwork.
Not only is it a diversion - it is a BIG, diversion; with more focus on other's work, and not focused on mine.

I see there are many people who are disgruntled with this. I would suggest people "Contact the Help Desk", and let your/our voices be heard Loud and Clear.
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~Coloured-World Mar 30, 2013  Student Photographer
so I can't use the "More like this" section on my own deviations? If otherwise, how can I have really similar deviations on my own ones? Because I make crafts, every photograph I have has on the "More Like This" section only artisan crafts.
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*LimLam Mar 23, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
The "More Like This" thumbnails should be a drop-down menu. It's just plain wrong that i should advertise other people's work, without even agreeing to it.
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~carolkayla Mar 7, 2013  Hobbyist Artist
I think now it should be organized like this:
deviantART muro drawing Comment Drawing
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:iconrutana:
I personally like the "More like this" feature, but I agree with people who state that it's confusing and takes away the spotlight of the deviation you're currently watching.
I for example prefer to have the "more from this artists gallery" feature up at the top of the page, instead of the "more like this" feature.
Couldn't it be made possible that the "More like this" feature is put into a drop-down menu? Or an option that can be turned on and off at any given time? I guess that would make everyone happy ^^
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Mood: Outraged ~rukiaprincess Feb 16, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
I'm going to have to agree with most comments..."More Like This" is just confusing. I was gone from dA for years, and when I come back, I'm clueless to the new addition and I got lost on peoples pages. It made me mad to leave the artist I THOUGHT I was on just to look at someone else. So now that I know what it does, it is distracting. Keep it at the bottom of the page or something.
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Mood: dA Love ~271FKQ Feb 11, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I love more like this, i was so annoyed by the normal search results. You try to find this and what do you get? P*rn, anime-fanarts, movie-fanarts, pc-games-fanarts for something that has the same word in it, but nearly nothing i was really looking for. So thank you soooooooooooooo very much dA for this lovely feature i want more like this!
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