They’ve committed themselves to AI art, that’s how dead it is.

I remembered fond memories predating that period though. The chat room community was at once, very large. The chats still in fact exist, though, they’ve really tucked them away in a corner. Still have friends from there, still have seen so much talent come through there.

But you won’t ever tell anymore what AI is and what AI isn’t, because they’ve welcomed AI with open arms for a while. DeviantArt has truly backstabbed so many artists, without a care.

Oh and their logo is stupid as shit, looks more like an X than DA.

The modern internet kinda sucks. I wish I could time travel back to pre-2007.

I deleted my dA gallery over a year ago. Not interested in feeding their AI with my works. It’s a shame, too, a few of my deviations made best all time under A:TLA characters’ keywords.

Their UI is cancer. Endless popups nagging you to get Core. Their messaging and chat functions are useless to everyone except scammers. And now, the search function, aka the last thing I found dA useful for (because of the massive amount of tutorials uploaded there) has been completely nerfed. Now if I’m looking for a specific tutorial, I have to go to duckduckgo and type in the keywords and site:deviantart.com to pull up actually relevant results.

The enshittification of DeviantART is complete.

I wish there were other widely used galleries to post on but alas, I’m confined to FurAffinity for now.

I still use deviantart occasionally and the ui has gotten worse every year. Even ignoring the impact ai art has had on the platform, search doesn’t work anymore, groups don’t work anymore, its impossible to find things you are looking for

I miss the old days of DA. Countless hours of scrolling to find the perfect wallpaper or art for my TTRPG games. Now I mostly use Patreon or occasionally ArtStation. But it not the same.

Man I haven’t thought of this site in like 20 years. Great memories, but I guess enshittification got them too.

That article is in dire need of basic editing.