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The CleveMeet was a rousing success! The day was beautiful, albeit a bit windy and sprinkles were on the horizon, but Huntington Reservation is a gorgeous park with amenities and one fabulous beach and view of downtown Cleveland off in the distance. $Ayame-Kenoshi came up with the idea for the meeting place, and it was easy to get to from all directions being accessible by freeway and turnpike travel.
Kawaii Coconut Journal Skin by =Metterschlingel Scroll Journal Skin - Free by =r0se-designs Dark Beauty by =Celairen Goodbye Sleep... (UPDATED) by ~doodle-dee Sketchbook by ~weida34 Aurora Skin by =SoulFighty Pop Rocks Journal Skin by `RockstarVanity Deviously Denied by `GillianIvy Simple DA Skin by ~Chosmos
I come across nice new deviations all the time browsing Newest and here's some work I liked. Cute, bright, skillful, mysterious, surreal, intriguing, funny or a combination of those... anyway. Decide for yourself ^^
:thumb333350469: Innocence by *wahyawolf Sing for me by ~EpicVampire Less Than Three by ~jaevairny Drowning in Fluff by ~XxgreenblitzxX The Day I Believed by ~CPT-CUPCAKE-art Lines by ~bassdrummerkid Marigolds by ~Norble Happy Freakin Halloween '12 by *IceDragonhawk Bunny Stage Fright! by ~Bandling45
Around the Site Suggestions: Volume 1
Welcome to my new bi-weekly article: Around the Site Suggestions! This article will be published every other Saturday and it will feature different suggestions from around the site. Suggestions will be taken from the visual suggestions gallery, the written suggestions gallery , the suggestions forum, the weekly site updates from #hq and anywhere else suggestions are posted. As well as featuring these suggestions, this article will also contain different discussion topics about different aspects of the site and how you would like to see them improved. If you have a suggestion you would like featured in this article feel free to note me, ^Katara-Alchemist with your suggestion and I'll include it in the next article! It doesn't even have to be yours, it can just be a cool one that you've see while browsing the site. Feel free to note me with suggestions for the discussion topic at the end as well.
Suggestions From the Site Updates
*8manderz8 suggested: Widget Subscription for Groups. Fully upgrading a group to "Super Group" status can be costly and near impossible for smaller groups. What if the group only wants a group Forum, or a group Poll option, or only customized journals or pages? I think that having a feature for non-super groups where they can subscribe to certain widgets for 12 months at a time would be a good answer, especially for those who would like to have some (but not all) of the options that Super Groups have."
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=Mary-Jane-Stokely suggested: Have an affiliate feature for individual member pages. So lets say another GIMP artist visits my profile and sees that I also use GIMP to create digital art, they can then send me an affiliation request which I can either accept or reject and if I accept it, the other GIMP artist has a separate tab on their menu bar that says Affiliates and then people clicking on this Affiliate tab can see my page under the GIMP Artist's section.
I'd love to be able to request to affiliate with other member's doing Coca-Cola Fan Art as well. So that if people click on my affiliate tab - under the section Coca-Cola Fan Art - they see all the other member's pages on dA that I've affiliated with, that are also creating Coca-Cola Fan Art.
The thing is that all affiliated pages should have to go under a section which the user has pre-designated similar to the way a flickr galleries work, one has to create a gallery first and give it a name and only then can one add other member's photos to it.
So for the Affiliates tab, one has to create sections first so that the affiliated pages are organized and not just random lists.
So for me for example I'd have five sections: Other GIMP Digital Artists, GIMP Resource Creators, Coca-Cola Fan Art Creators, G'MIC plugin users, Powerpoint and Excel template Creators.
Underneath these sections would be other member's pages that I've requested as affiliates and classified under the appropriate sections.
From the Suggestions Forum
`TimberClipse Suggested a new algorithm for the journal portal and footer.
From the Visual Suggestions gallery
Optional hotlink protection.
New Usernames in comment business cards.From the Written Suggestions Gallery
Google Drive sync with Sta.sh and MuroIntroduction: Google Drive is a cloud storage service. Nothing else. But for that it is great! I always loved Google Docs, now it become Drive. I can sync my data between compy, phone, Google Docs etc. Fast and easy to use, and it give us 5GB storage (that is a lot).Sync Sta.sh and muro with Google Drive.
Suggestion: Muro and Sta.sh sync with Google Drive. It is easy to make. Even I could do it with Sta.sh API and GD API and maybe I will experiment with it if I have time for it, but I would be happy if it would exists officially on dA.
Here is the simple documentation for Google Drive API: https://developers.google.com/drive/
Featured JournalI wanted to keep a commissions journal on my page, but yet at the same time I wanted to write different journals. So I thought of "Featured Journals." So Deviants can keep a certain journal on display, and still type what ever else they want in separate journals that wont appear on their page.Be able to have featured journals on your page.
Or if you are using the new journal update that allows several journals to appear on your page, then there should be an option to organize certain entries, so that way if you have a specific entry you want on top, you can place it there and continue writing more journals that will automatically be placed under the "featured journal" unless marked other
Suggestions From Elsewhere on the Site
=Mod-a-holic suggested that we have an easier way to re-critique artwork after the original critique is made. As it stands, if you want to update your critique to reflect changes made in an artwork you have to delete your old critique and post a new one, which get's ride of feedback that could still be potentially useful to the artist.
Discuss
We're going to have two discussion topics this week!
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Recently deviantART announced that we can now change usernames. Many people are very happy with this feature, but there are those that have issues with it. One of the biggest points of contention is that you have to be a premium member to change your name. What do you guys think about, instead of having to be a premium member, you just paid a general fee to change your name? Do you think this would be beneficial or harmful?
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Page buddies. Those little things that managed to get out of the box and sit in the corner of your page as you scrolled. They were only around for a couple days, but as soon as they were taken away there was a pretty big uproar, especially on this week's site update. This was the response given on a ticket submitted by another deviant on the matter of page buddies being removed: "We greatly apologize for the delayed response. The ability to skin and use CSS on Profile Pages is very flexible -- so much so, that sometimes a skinner can gain access to parts of the page that deviantART didn't intend for. In this case of Page Buddies, we fixed a bug that allowed people to get "outside the box" and change parts of the site that aren't permitted. If you check out our Etiquette policy you'll see that we do not permit exploits and disruption of the layout as they could cause problems with navigating the site." But despite this response, many people still want page buddies back. Do you think it would be a good idea to bring this back with added limits such as a 250px by 250px size limit? Or do you think they would still interfere with the use of the site to much and thus not be a good idea?
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Discuss!
Thanks for reading!
I think name changing is great, and needing to be a premium member is no more than fair. Especially after some former premium features were released to be used by everyone recently too. Plus it doesn't have to cost money, i never paid this site any money and still got years of premium memberships (and an everlasting one in the end), and a good of points, and shirts and other goodies
Subscription widget for groups: That would be incredibly helpful.
Affiliates for users: No. It would be way too confusing to have two different affiliates systems (for groups and users). It would be better to have a custom box or create a feature of people who work similarly to you instead. They could just create a folder in their favourites as another alternative too.
Username changes: I like how they set it up already. If there was a fee involved, the non-premium members might as well buy a premium membership to change it anyway.
Page Buddies: I did not like them at all. Even if there was a limited width, it would probably still annoy me. A lot of the time if I went to someone's page, the page buddy would cover some of the text in a widget on the bottom of the page. I think it would look dodgy on a smaller resolution as well.
I found that it did in fact disrupt my browsing, and was even distracting at times.
Subscribe to widgets: I agree. I don't need most of the features for, say, #deviousSUGGESTIONS, but I would love to just be able to have CSS.
Affiliates for users: Good points.
Username Changes: I agree, especially since one month premiums are so cheap.
Page Buddies: I never actually saw page buddies.
Pay-Pal and its fees can kill a business transaction, especially when artist want to do a $1 commission and the commissioner picks the wrong option and the artist gets fined to death.
Da should make their own Pay-pal like system where it doesn't charge for anything less then $5.01 [link]
Da should also let us have the option to remove repeat deviantWATCH alerts for deviations. [link]
According to the guy who made a tutorial on page buddies, page buddies and the code have been around for a few years. He actually had a pretty snazzy page buddy commission business going on for a while.
I think DA should let us have them back, they should just regulate them to be a certain size like the icons.
As for DA having their own pay-pal system, I think it would just end up like pay-pal itself when it comes to fees otherwise DA wouldn't make a profit and wouldn't have any reason to do it or pay for the effort put in by the people that would maintain it. Also, I'm sure there's a lot of legal mumbo jumbo that would be involved for them to be able to do something like that.
Being able to remove repeat dev-watch messages would bee awesome.
They were really around that long? Hu. I thought they were something that was only around a couple days. I never came across a single one, honestly.
According to the artist they were. i only discovered them a short time before DA took them away