DeviantArt is the best site that the web2.0 blogarati echo chamber consistently overlooks.
Probably because they are too busy supporting the large and thriving community that pays very well for itself to care what anyone else thinks.
They've been one of our primary role models since we first learned of their genius and amazing community commitment. If you ever have a chance to speak with Angelo, one of their founders, make it so.
Singer
· 1 year ago
Yep. Angelo knows how to open his mouth to bloggers. “In 2000, there was no place for artists to put their artwork online.†= Angelo Sotira from his interview with Redefine Magazine. What a lie! www.artwanted.com was already around. A few art communities were. So Angelo either does not know his own market or he is a bold liar.
I like deviantART but Sotiro often re-rewites history in order to make him or the site look better. I also highly suspect that Angelo is paying for reviews because there have been over a dozen this year. Before that deviantART seemed to have tried to avoid press largely because of the Jark / Spyed issue.
Guest
· 1 year ago
Haven't been back to deviant art in quite some time. They used to have a feature called devPacks about 5 years ago but they were removed (much to my dismay). This new feature sounds almost exactly the same as the devPack feature so it sounds like a step back in the right direction.
I'll never go back to DA since Mr Angelo fired the sites creator Scott Jarkoff.
SopBop
· 1 year ago
"7 million registered users"
Again I must point out that these numbers are not exactly honest because members can't delete their accounts. When you delete it simply removes the artwork and text, but the bare profile and user name is still there. My guess is that www.deviantart.com does that so that they can keep high membership when making ad deals with companies. For all we know there could be millions of dead accounts on there. The bloggers should be asking why deviantart does not allow accounts to be wiped out completely when a member deletes. This is one of those issues that you don't dare mention on deviantart forums or chat rooms without the risk of being banned. Why is that?
Ed
· 1 year ago
www.deviantart.com does fudge the numbers because of the deletion issue. They could have a billion submissions for all I care. Out of all their membership I bet there are only a few thousand great artists. The rest post their Adult Swim knockoff images and place them in the wrong category to boot. The has serious traffic but is not taken serious by the art world at all. I've participated in art panel discussions in NYC and Chicago that focused on how the internet can be used as a tool for exposure and deviantART has NEVER been mentioned. People are aware of the site but they don't it serious. Even Saatchi Online is left out of most of the debates. The main focus seems to be www.artnet.com.
Playster.org
· 4 months ago
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Probably because they are too busy supporting the large and thriving community that pays very well for itself to care what anyone else thinks.
They've been one of our primary role models since we first learned of their genius and amazing community commitment. If you ever have a chance to speak with Angelo, one of their founders, make it so.
I like deviantART but Sotiro often re-rewites history in order to make him or the site look better. I also highly suspect that Angelo is paying for reviews because there have been over a dozen this year. Before that deviantART seemed to have tried to avoid press largely because of the Jark / Spyed issue.
They used to have a feature called devPacks about 5 years ago but they were removed (much to my dismay). This new feature sounds almost exactly the same as the devPack feature so it sounds like a step back in the right direction.
I'll never go back to DA since Mr Angelo fired the sites creator Scott Jarkoff.
Again I must point out that these numbers are not exactly honest because members can't delete their accounts. When you delete it simply removes the artwork and text, but the bare profile and user name is still there. My guess is that www.deviantart.com does that so that they can keep high membership when making ad deals with companies. For all we know there could be millions of dead accounts on there. The bloggers should be asking why deviantart does not allow accounts to be wiped out completely when a member deletes. This is one of those issues that you don't dare mention on deviantart forums or chat rooms without the risk of being banned. Why is that?
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