I hate what this website has become. I miss when it used to be so fun, active and all, and once the new layout came in it all died, the whole website went to massive ass and nobody cares about DeviantArt anymore, DeviantArt used to be a safe space for me and for many others, it used to be like a home for us and since this new Eclipse layout came in... ooof it just became terrible. No one comes here anymore, almost all the art that's posted here is AI generated (Which is hypocrisy in my opinion, why does DeviantArt allow AI which is a bunch of stolen artworks mashed together, yet not allow traced art or recoloring? It's still a form of art theft).
I wish they at least kept an option to switch between the old layout and the new one, but they just had to shove Eclipse down or throat smh. Now I rarely even post my art on here. The website is slowly declining af and they're coming up with more ways to make money, like making different types of core memberships, etc... I remember when "core" used to be called "premium membership" and it was like 5$ for 3 months and 20$ for a whole year, and then they made the price two times more and called it "core", everyone complained and they didn't listen, just like how they did with eclipse layout, with AI art, they never listen, and now it's just... 💀 yeah dA died ASF. People recommend Instagram, but Instagram is just as shit, I have 25,4k followers and I only get 200 likes, because the algorithm sucks ass so I have to do a ton of sfs. Ooof man why don't the devs of this website ever listen to the members jc....