Site Update: April 20, 2012In our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing 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
More Updates to the New Thumbnails Preview

Several weeks ago, we released a sneak peek of deviantART's new thumbnails. We've been making changes based on community responses, and today we've implemented a few more. In this updated version, the font, spacing, and colors of the text under the thumbs have been adjusted. Also, several members had concerns about the "frames" that were put around thumbs that were either extra tall, extra wide, or small images (such as emoticons and avatars). We've adjusted the visual display of these frames to make them less distracti

Site Update: Sta.sh Titles, Bug FixesIn our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing 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
Sta.sh Titles Always Display
Titles on Sta.sh items will now always display. Previously, titles only displayed while hovering your cursor over the items. This simple change makes the interface clearer and makes it easier to identify your items.

Bug Fixes

General
DeviantART was invaded by FUR. After FUR's article received over 500,000 pageviews and 50,000 comments in one day, the felines

Site Update: Message Center JournalsIn our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing 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
Browse Through Journals in Your Message Center
When browsing through deviations in your Message Center, you can use the "Next" and "Previous" buttons to flip through artwork and use the "Remove From Messages" button to remove each of those deviations. Many people have been requesting that this feature be extended to Journals as well. We're happy to tell you that we just added this functionality!

Pages on the "Journal History" Widget
Many members have requested that "Next" and "Previous" buttons be added to the "Journal History" widget to allow you

Community Relations News - January + February 2012>
Table of Contents
1. Daily Deviations
2. Bi-weekly Critique Nights
3. Volunteer Openings
4. Share Your Opinions
5. Community Projects
6. Official Contests
7 Project Educate 2011/2012
8. Art History
9. News from the Galleries
1. Daily Deviations
Recently, I announced changes to Daily Deviations in this journal and I'm happy to say that the response has been favorable. To review, we have made the following changes:
a> The "3-month rule" is now the "6-month rule" meaning an artist cannot receive another DD if they have had one in the last 6 months.
b> Daily Deviation selectors are limited to a maximum of one selection per day. This has been put in place to focus on quality vs quantity.
The hard-coding of these new guidelines is now in place (special thanks to $ZombieCoder for that

).
These changes are part of an ongoing initiative to better our Dai

Celebrating Deviousness - April 2012 Deviousness Award
Deviousness Award

Congratulations to ^shuttermonkey

All for the love of you

Pretty in White II

The Colors of Potter's Cay

What is this Awesome Achievement?

The Deviousness Award is an accolade which is traditionally handed out on the 1st of every month to one truly outstanding deviant.

It's no April Fools prank, today we are delighted to announce
^shuttermonkey as the Deviousness Award recipient for April 2012.

Funny Face ID.

Landing Lake 2

Playful Reminder II

Who is ^shuttermonkey?

Cory's dedication to the community is astounding. Not only is he what we would call

Site Update: New Thumbs, Comment Business CardsIn our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing 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
A Preview of deviantART's New Thumbnails
The current deviantART thumbnails (the smaller versions of deviations) have served the community well for years; however, there's always room for improvement. We've created a new style of thumbnail, which hopes to solve the problems with the current thumbnails.
Read more about the new thumbnails and find out how you can preview them.

Comment Business Cards
On

Site Update: Group Comment Messages, Group WidgetsIn our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing 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
Group Journal Comment Messages for Admins

Over the past few months, many members have been asking to bring back the feature where Group admins receive Message Center notifications when members comment on their Groups' journals. This week, we brought back this functionality and messages will now be appearing for all new comments.

Group journal messages will appear for all users who have administrative powers over that Group's journal. For example, if the "Contributors" admin class is set to 'Can

Site Update: Sta.sh Submit, Thumbnails to BetaIn our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing 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
Coming Soon: New Sta.sh Submit
Beta testers are currently trying out the new submission process for Sta.sh, deviantART's upload and publishing platform. This new version includes a simplified and tidier interface that makes it easier to understand and use. The feedback on this new process has been very positive, so we will be rolling it out to all members early next week. If you'd like to try it out early, upgrade to a Premium Membership and enable Beta Testing in your

Engage Wonderment: Odyssey - Phase TwoGreetings Everyone. Over the last six weeks I have been plotting, planning, and researching all of the ways we might efficiently and effectively go about publishing Odyssey this year in book form. In an effort to bring back the best possible counsel before embarking on this process I have spoken with multiple publishers, printers, designers, distributors, and authors that I have worked with in the past.

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Engage Wonderment: Odyssey - Phase Two
Greetings Everyone.
Over the last six weeks I have been plotting, planning, and researching all of the ways we might efficiently and effectively go about publishing Odyssey this year in book form. In an effort to bring back the best possible counsel before embarking on this process I have spoken with multiple publishers, printers, designers, dis

Site Update: Unread Message Counts, Sta.sh UpdatesIn our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing 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
Unread Counts in Message Center Sidebar
The sidebar in the Message Center now displays an unread count next to each type of message to allow you to easily identify and sort your messages.

File and Edit Menus in Sta.sh
A couple weeks ago, we launched the File and Edit menus in Sta.sh to Beta Testers, making it easier to manage your Sta.sh. Today, we're rolling out the feature to everyone. These menus make it easier to organize your files, and adds the ability to

Pimps and Whoas - February 9, 2012Pimps
Official dA News

Celebrating Deviousness - February 2012

Pin Up From Objectification to Empowerment

The Great Valentine Exchange

Site Update Comment Counts on Thumbs and More

Giving Your Stacks an Introduction

CEA Blog: How to communicate with the CEADuring the course of our daily activities we receive a lot of communication from members, in the interests of helping you get the right help in the quickest possible manner we have put together this guide on how to communicate efficiently with the CEA team.
Before contacting the CEA we ask that you do the following:
Check for a relevant +faq entry to make sure your question isn't already addressed there. This can save you a lot of time waiting for a response that you can easily access.
Check recent #communityops blogs to make sure that your issue hasn't been addressed there.
If reporting harassment, have you blocked the deviant and hidden their comments already?
Collect any relevant information about the issue, links to comments, journals or deviations
If the issue has upset you, take a few minutes to make sure you're calm before contacting us. This will help your tickets

Emoticon Gallery ChangesGreetings!
There are some changes to the Emoticon Gallery structure that I'm excited to announce. Months ago `Synfull suggested this layout:

and the response from the community has been entirely in favor of this structural change!
While I have made most of the changes the category currently looks like this:

Emoticons

Chat Friendly

Animated

Large - up to 150x150

Medium - up to 50x50

The Help Desk: a year in reviewDeviantART's Community Operations department aims to foster an environment where deviants can come together and be empowered within, and by, the community. By providing an organized, motivated, accountable, and effective department, we are leading the way for deviants to participate in a manner where they feel listened to, valued, and inspired. 2011 was an amazing year for Community Operations and we wanted to share a few of the highlights!

Introductions
The Community Operations department is comprised of both the Copyright & Etiquette Administration and Help Desk teams.
Fiona ($fourteenthstar): Director of Community Operations
Copyright & Etiquette Administration
Daniel ($realitysquared): Project Manager
Aun-Juli ($aunjuli): Team Leader
Kay ($damphyr)
Jenn ($y2jenn)
Bryan ($godofodd)
Dom ($dxd)
Kassandra ($kozispoon)
Help Desk
Evanita ($ewm): Team Leader
Chris ($Ikue)
Ollie ($Thunderstatement)
dAmn & Fo

New Ways to Receive Prints Profits!At deviantART, we're all about supporting artists any way we can. We do this is by giving our members a platform for displaying their art, tools to exchange comments and critiques, and avenues for finding new friends and mentors all over the world.
We also want to help artists by providing a place to sell their art, which we've done for years through our Prints program. Because the process of receiving payments from your art sales has been less than ideal, we've worked hard on a new earnings system. We've heard your feedback and suggestions, and want to give you a preview of three ways you will be able to receive profits from the Prints that you've sold. Check out these changes coming soon!
Points, PayPal, and Checks
With our new program, we're adding ways to instantly receive payments, all of which will be found in the new and improved My Earnings page.
Points
The simplest way to receive your Prints profits will be throu

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In our continuous effort to improve the deviantART experience, we're publishing 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

New Sta.sh Submit Interface (Beta Testers Only)

Sta.sh, deviantART's upload and publishing platform, has a redesigned submission process! This new version, which is only available to Beta Testers, includes a simplified and tidier interface that makes it easier to understand and use. In addition to the visual changes, we also added the ability to submit to multiple Gallery folders.

Screen Shot 2012-04-12 at 1.21.13 PM by $danlev

New Sta.sh Writer Toolbar (Beta Testers Only)

Formatting in Sta.sh Writer just got easier! Check out the brand new Writer toolbar, which includes new functionality such as headings, lists, and text alignment! Though these formatting styles worked in the previous version of Writer, they could only be used if you manually typed in the HTML or copy and pasted from another application.

Screen Shot 2012-04-04 at 11.37.43 AM by $danlev

Want to try these features? Upgrade to a Premium Membership and enable Beta Testing in your Account Settings.

Bug Fixes

General

When using the "next" and "previous" buttons to browse through "newest deviations" and "newest favourites" from the Profile Page widgets, the "back" button was not working properly. Fixed by $shadowhand
Search on chatrooms page was slow and caused excessive stress on the database. Fixed by $shadowhand
A minor display issue about long Group names in the Message Center has been addressed. Fixed by $ZombieCoder
Some Group Profile Pages did not list all Journals in the "recent journal entries" module. Fixed by $allixsenos
Group administrators lost ability to edit settings for the blog widget on the Journal tab of Groups for a short time. Fixed by $helloandre
The Journal Skin editor modal appearance was severely dated. Fixed by `mpsb
deviantART's oEmbed API had several corner cases where it was not fully compliant with the specifications. Fixed by $drommk
Some links on automated emails were not working properly. Fixed by $drommk and $ZombieCoder

Sta.sh

When editing an item's title, the box now expands vertically as you type and never shows a scrollbar. Fixed by $samshull
Updating the main image of a deviation that was submitted from Sta.sh now correctly updates the EXIF information. Fixed by $kouiskas
When selecting only one item, broken hovercards would appear on other items when they shouldn't have been shown. Fixed by $samshull
When the last row of items had only one item, hovering it would make the pager jump. Fixed by $samshull

Sta.sh Writer

Clicking on the title of a thumbnail in Writer would open the deviation instead of adding it to the piece. Fixed by $kouiskas
Added a new preview and share buttons on the header of Sta.sh items. Fixed by $kemayo
Reloading writer reopens your current draft instead of creating a new one. Fixed by $kemayo
Links clicked in the writer preview window now open in a new window. Fixed by $kemayo
Uploading from the Sta.sh toolbar stopped working. Fixed by `aMoniker
Sta.sh had upload errors in IE8. Fixed by $inazar
Writer toolbar showed the underline button highlighted when a link was focussed. Fixed by $inazar
Pasting a deviation to move it within Writer would reset its width and height. Fixed by $Alisey
Dragging deviations from the sidebar not onto writer would result in them reverting back to a weird position. Fixed by $Alisey
Dragging and dropping Sta.sh thumbs was generally broken in IE. Fixed by $Alisey
The non-Sta.sh Journal editor now gives the "put-art-here" hover indicator to everyone rather than just subscribers, since thumbnails are not restricted to just Premium Members anymore. Fixed by $kemayo

Your Feedback

~dj-corny suggested that the deviantART navigation should stick to the top of the screen when scrolling down the page so that it's always available.

^RockstarVanity created of visual mock-up of advanced Poll settings, which includes the ability to close a poll and limiting voting to certain groups of people.

In the Suggestions Forum, *theOrangeSunflower brought up the idea that there should be a way to view all collections that a deviation is in. This would not only be a great way to discover new artwork, but it'd also make collections more visible and encourage members to curate their own collections.

Bugs, issues, and feedback from previous Site Updates

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!)

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~AlphaPower Jul 4, 2012 General Artist

~Mock1ngJay Apr 27, 2012 Student General Artist

(I dunno if somebody has already suggested this, but..)
I, as well as many others, use the chat rooms to rp. I htink it would be a good idea to allow people to view previous chats in chat rooms, as currently I have to screenshot the chat so I can go back later to re-read previous rps.

~Lionesses101 Apr 26, 2012

Look I've been having problems going to pages, there always most times seem to be page errors. Deviantart asks me to go to the main deviantart page over and over again. Can you fix it, please?

There may be some glitch.

~crazyking-3d Apr 21, 2012 Professional Interface Designer

nice

~Digital-Jedi Apr 19, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Disagree with previous comments. Floating toolbars make things way more fluid. Most folks will get used to it and wonder how they ever lived without it after a time.

~Yamitora1 Apr 19, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

While viewing our deviantWATCH messages, we should be able to sort them by abz, zyx, number of deviations and we also should be allowed to unstack them if we feel like it.

=floppyrom Apr 18, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

3 ideas:

- button to share on google+
- ability to do a batch change to all the deviations and disable the download full resolution feature
- statistics about the downloads of your deviations in the statistics center

~XToriRoseXD Apr 30, 2012

completely agree with you

^pica-ae Apr 18, 2012 Professional Interface Designer

I have a suggestion

You recently updated the "remove from message center" button on journals and news articles when browsing them from the message center. Most of the people I watch use Skins created for the previous journal look. That means, most of those skins do not display the line that tells me who posted the journal.

This brings up the problem that when browsing, I can only find out by who the journal I am viewing is, by scrolling down all the way

News Articles show a "More from…" list on the right, it would be cool to have this item on journal deviations as well

Might even be an easy fix, since the element already exists

Thank you

$danlev Apr 19, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

Hmm, that's an interesting problem. Good point! Not sure what the best solution would be though. Hmmm...

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