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LinkedInIn 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
deviantART muro Brushes Are Now Free!
deviantART muro, our cutting edge in-browser drawing tool, offers a variety of different brushes for use in creating digital paintings. In the past, we've offered some brushes for free, and others as part of premium brush packs. We're happy to announce that from today onward, we're offering all brushes for free.
Text Brush in deviantART muro (Beta Testers)
We launched a new tool to Beta Testers that allows you to paint words onto your canvas in deviantART muro!
A New deviantID
Over the course of the next few days, we'll be moving forward and transferring everyone on site over to the new deviantID widget. This widget, originally launched to beta testers in 2011 and made available to deviants early on in 2012, is designed to help deviants present themselves as artists or art appreciators, while also making it easy for other deviants to find common interests.
The deviantID widget lets you display information about yourself, your interests, and an image of what you feel represents you, all from one sleek box on your page!
New deviantART Twitter Accounts
Last week we added two new accounts to our network of automated Twitter accounts. We added @deviantARTdd, which tweets Daily Deviations and @dA_journals, which tweets popular Journals.
Get daily inspirational artwork delivered straight to your Twitter feed! Even when you're away from deviantART, you can stay inspired while keeping a pulse on the deviantART community.
These accounts were created to give deviantART members more exposure by increasing traffic and visibility to audiences outside of the deviantART community. They tweet recently popular deviations in a given category. If the artist has a Twitter account, their Twitter username will be included in the tweet, giving the artist's Twitter account extra exposure. Twitter usernames are pulled from the Twitter Widget on your profile. Premium Members, if you haven't already installed it, you may want to do this.
Change Log
- When in one's own Gallery or Favourites, the pencil menus on thumbnails were missing scrollbars for deviants using the Safari browser with Mountain Lion. Fixed by `Nodren
- When purchasing Fine Art Prints, the shipping method selector was briefly unavailable. Fixed by `KnightAR
- Selecting a friend from the Note sharing tool would load that deviant's page instead of putting their username into the "To:" field. Fixed by `Nodren
- There was an issue encountered in Firefox where some drop down menus on Profile pages wouldn't open. Fixed by `Nodren
- Purchasing a Premium Membership for yourself and another deviant in the same transaction would display an incorrect total price. Fixed by `aMoniker
- A small number of Film submissions had failed transcoding, and were stuck in a "processing" state. Fixed by $yury-n
- Some Forum notification messages could not be removed from the Message Center. Fixed by $randomduck
- Phantom Message Center messages affecting some senior members were removed. Fixed by $randomduck
- The "Add This Widget" command on Profile and Group pages was briefly broken. Fixed by `Nodren
- There were some scrolling issues on deviation pages in Safari. Fixed by `aMoniker
- There was an error replying to Notes if a previously typed note hadn't been sent. Fixed by $shadowhand
- Ads on Profile pages would display strangely in some browsers when a menu in the topbar was opened. Fixed by $ZombieCoder
- On the mobile site, deviation pages were preloading larger images too aggressively, resulting in slower loading times. Fixed by `aMoniker
deviantART muro
- There was an unusual issue encountered when a deviant exited from muro without making any marks. Fixed by $mudimba
- When launched from Sta.sh Writer, images would be zoomed out to a large degree. Fixed by $mudimba
- The horizontal flip tool stopped working in dA muro. Reported by `phoenixleo, fixed by $mudimba
- In Chrome, the functioning tool would sometimes get stuck as the eraser tool, even when a pen or brush was selected. Reported by *wrongpixel and ~DashMerc, fixed by $mudimba
Sta.sh
- A green background was appearing in Sta.sh. Fixed by $kouiskas
- The layout of thumbs when inside of a stack was broken. Fixed by $shahyarg
- Uploads to Sta.sh wouldn't appear in Internet Explorer until after refreshing the page. Fixed by $kouiskas
- When logged out and leaving a comment on a Sta.sh item, the login modal layout was broken. Fixed by $kouiskas
- In Firefox, portions of the upload button were not clickable. Fixed by $kouiskas
- Switching from Scraps and back to Scraps in the category selector wouldn't work properly. Fixed by $samshull
Sta.sh Writer
- A large amount of thumbnails would load in the Writer sidebar upon opening Writer, which would affect display performance. Fixed by $kemayo
- When editing an image from Sta.sh Writer in deviantART muro, error messages were unclear. Fixed by $kemayo
- Embedded deviations didn't respect mature content settings. Fixed by $Alisey
- The "link" option in the toolbar didn't auto-focus the cursor on text input after opening it. Fixed by $Alisey
- Error messages when saving drafts were unclear. Fixed by $Alisey
- Dragging emoticons from the Writer sidebar failed in Firefox. Fixed by $Alisey
- Empty space was appearing at the bottom of the skin sidebar in Firefox. Fixed by $Alisey
- The "switch to image" option on deviantART muro redraw deviations didn't work. Fixed by $Alisey
- Deviation images would not always scale proportionately. Fixed by $Alisey
- Some HTML tags were breaking when an entry was edited. Fixed by $Alisey
- For Sta.sh Comments, the "Add Media" tabs in the Writer sidebar would display unevenly. Fixed by $Alisey
Your Feedback
Thanks for the feedback left on last week's update! Here's some of the feedback you left for us.
- The prices at which deviants mentioned they set commissions varied greatly, though the methods of payment mentioned were fairly consistent, between PayPal and deviantART Points.
- Most deviants who replied to the discussion section said that they usually accept between 3 and 5 commissions at a time, though some said they were willing to take on up to ten at a time.
- In regard to communication with the artist/client, some prefer to use Notes, while others prefer to keep in contact via email.
- Feedback regarding the new Sta.sh comments was positive, and some deviants mentioned that they would like to see that functionality used on deviantART as well.
- Deviants would like to be able to view more than 24 deviations per page in the Message Center. Suggested by =Yamitora1
- Deviants would like for a deviation's Favourites list to display what Groups have added that deviation to their favourites as well. Suggested by =GenesisArclite
Discuss!
Conversation in Notes
One of many ways in which messaging has developed online in the recent past is the conversation view for personal messages (e.g. how Facebook messages are displayed). What are your thoughts in regard to conversation-type layouts for personal messages? Do you find them easy to navigate or organize? If you don't like a conversation style of layout, what sort of layout do you prefer for your personal messages?
Conversation view as mocked up by =MamaELM
Have a suggestion, idea, or feedback? Leave a comment on this article!
Find a bug? Report it to the Help Desk! (Be as detailed as possible!)
I also liked the fact that the notes are different from the comments. It feels more private this way, so if I were to choose, I'd preffer it to stay as much as possible as it is.
I would also like the ability to rate a comment. Not just "like" or whatever, but "agree" "disagree" "helpful" "funny" "love" "infuriating" "awesome!" etc without responding with a message that has only ONE emoticon attached to it. I'd like to assign several ratings at once and do so without commenting.
These are excellent suggestions about the need to collect comic pages into one viewable deviation:
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We also need the ability to subscribe to certain folders within a group. For instance, I might be in an anime group but have no interest in Naruto-themed fan art, so I would uncheck that box so I would receive no Naruto-themed art from that group. Or maybe the group, while it's a great group, has a mature folder. Rather than fill my inbox up with mature deviations or blanked out images, I could unsubscribe from that folder.