Site Update: Welcoming New Deviants

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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.

Change Log


  • For deviants with rebilling enabled on their Premium Membership, the Rebilling page would display an incorrect setting status on the day before rebilling occurred. Fixed by yury-n
  • For a brief period, dashes would be unintentionally stripped from deviation titles. Fixed by Alisey
  • When inputting text into the Real Name field of the deviantID widget, it would only allow 4 letters of the Cyrillic alphabet. Fixed by Alisey
  • Some Gallery Folder thumbnails would only load after scrolling down the page. Fixed by lepidosteus
  • Some Forum threads were created without titles and could not be closed. Fixed by Alisey
  • In Sta.sh Writer, pressing backspace between two differently styled sections of text would add unnecessary markup. Fixed by Alisey

Your Feedback


Thank you for the feedback on last week's Site Update! Here's some of what you had to say.
  • Deviants were positive about the relocation of the Fan Fiction category to the Literature gallery.
  • In response to the Discuss topic, several deviants mentioned that they did not gauge any perceived success in regard to their Collections, outside of whether or not it is personally useful to them.

Discuss!


Welcoming New Deviants

Earlier this week, we posted a Poll asking about what most positively impacts people who are new to deviantART, be it a welcome message, getting a Favourite notification, or other things. In addition to your thoughts on that question, we'd also like to know how you think we could make the new user experience better! What do you think we can do to make new deviants feel more welcome and have a positive first experience?

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I'm honestly not quite sure to do so; but maybe sending out a newsletter of the newest deviants, and even creating incentives for the "elders" to reach out to them.  I know, personally, that when I first joined I kind of just ended up going solo-dolo.  I didn't even have interest in trying to post my own work up here because I knew that probably nobody would make any comments, critiques, favorites, etc.  I tried messaging and commenting on so many works.  Joined groups...(not all on this username btw, have one other which I FIRST started out with.)  To no avail, really.  I decided to go rogue for most of deviantart and stopped even commenting on regulars' art usually unless spectacular. 
--->I'd say grouping by sending out a short update/list of new deviants - and just their main interests/fandoms/types of artwork would be spectacular to make it easier to connect with them and maybe show them the ropes.
----> I, too, originally joined this site thinking that I would be as close to members as I had grown close to on Tumblr, (several people I had grown so close with from just searching "tags" and following them, messaging their "ask" boxes, reposting their posts, etc...eventually led to us sharing our phone numbers.  That's how long, and deep our connection was...long meaning, the personal info took TIME.  A LOT of time.  But I'm just saying.....there are some tumblr strategies that wouldn't be bad to look at.