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I'm in ur friends list fixing ur bugs.

$20after4:icon20after4: reports, August 9
I just totally overhauled the friends page. You like? you like!

Portfolio (The Awesome Version): It's Here!

$spyed:iconspyed: reports, July 28
Devious Technology is very proud to announce one of deviantART’s most highly anticipated projects – Portfolio: The Awesome Version!! Portfolio is the simplest and most professional tool on the Internet for formal presentation and review of artwork, and the best part is: it's available to everyone for FREE!!

Portfolio (The Awesome Version): Now in Beta!

$20after4:icon20after4: reports, July 1
At deviantART, we want all artists to thrive. We’ve spent the last few months working on a Portfolio tool that helps artists promote themselves online in a highly professional manner without having to deal with the hassles of web design, hosting, coding, and so on. It's going into beta, and we wanted to share some details with you.

Journal Skins - Click for Awesome

$Heidi:iconHeidi: reports, June 15
Journal Skins is a tool that easily lets you personalize the layout and appearance of your journals, allowing you to be ONE CLICK away from customizing, organizing, and maximizing your journal experience. No coding knowledge required. Just click and you're done!

New Journal Skins!

$spyed:iconspyed: reports, May 28
Devious Technology is proud to announce the launch of deviantART’s newest feature – Journal Skins! With just a few clicks, personalizing, customizing, organizing, and maximizing your journal experience has never been easier. No coding experience required!

deviantART Presents: Critique!

$spyed:iconspyed: reports, April 17
Devious Technology is proud to officially announce the recent launch of deviantART's newest feature - Critique! In response to community demand, Critique is designed to help artists get in-depth, critical feedback and commentary on their work.

Message Center Retention Changes

$spyed:iconspyed: reports, April 17
In order to create a superior Message Center experience and add much needed functionality, we've found it necessary to implement a few limitations on the messages, deviations, and notes in your Message Center. Read on for more important information...

Critique Feature Released

$20after4:icon20after4: reports, April 3
Advanced Critique feature released.

Firefox: Bugs and Extensions

`arachnid15:iconarachnid15: reports, March 20
When your extensions jack up your user experience.
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deviantART Presents: New Profile Pages!

$spyed:iconspyed: reports, January 22
DeviantART is proud to announce the launch of NEW Profile Pages! In response to community feedback and deviously Deviant Technology innovation, new Profile Pages (aka userpages) offer additional ways to personalize, customize, and organize your homebase at deviantART!

Tech & Features


Project Daylight Maintained for 3 Weeks

$spyed:iconspyed: reports, August 11, 2007
It feels great to report that we've been able to sustain DAYLIGHT, which is the internal project name for optimal site speed at all times, for a full 3 weeks.

During that time we've experienced 42% traffic growth in all.

For one of the first times, we've initiated a hardware order and cabinet installation that will bring deviantART to full 2N+1 capacity, allowing daylight to continue for the foreseeable future.

We hope you're enjoying the site speed, additional improvements for Europe and Asia are on their way through various content delivery networks whose help we have enlisted.

We've also added 2 engineers to the team, and are seeking out 3 more in the short term. If you're interested in this job, please see the Job Description PDF. With these new additions and the speed increases we are moving to completion on many projects we've attempted through the years.

This will include in no particular order support for the submission of Films, more powerful search, collections, revamp of the message center, a trust metric for better popularity results (no more cheating!), integrated browse & search, proper next/previous navigation (launching I think Monday), the extremely overdue project code named "Party", Chat 1.0, shopping cart redesign, portfolio, a myriad of projects under a milestone called "Friction" that lubricates the user interface and resolves many points of contention with the site from various view points, a revamp of the product pages and Shop, phase2 of deviantWEAR where you can become the designer of your own WEAR and that's mostly it for now.

There aren't many more features we're discussing, we're spending a great deal of time on the core needs of deviantART and making sure we build and rebuild technology that works brilliantly so that all you have to worry about is deviating.

There are many neat tricks hidden in the projects above that I know we're dying to release to all. We take great joy in the successful release of features, the v5 platform continues to serve us very well (even though it was off to a rough start last year). I know I'm often the most eager to release, and try to push as hard as possible for features to see light of day. What I've learned throughout the years that I hope to pass on to a patient, and deviously devious community we love to serve is that these things are no longer trivial feats. If you consider that each piece of software we release is used interactively by 2 million people every day. And if you picture that in the form of football stadiums that house 60,000 at most.... it's a lot of stadiums! About 33 of them! :P

:meditate:

Anyway, feel free to ask questions below and as always...

:heart: :peace:

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:iconeagle79:
Sounds incredible! This will be done tomorrow, right? :D

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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." -Aristotle
:iconinsaneone:
Ok my question is this...When will dA start setting limits on thumbs/icons in a deviants Journal and/or News article. I use high speed but have used dial up on dA and this is a problem. Plus it would save bandwidth. I just recently viewed 2 different Journals which lagged my high speed. Just a idea anyway good luck with daylight . lol

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~You Must Be The Change You Wish To See In The World. ~ M. Gandhi~
:iconbananaprincess:
I'm glad to see the site's speed going strong, and yay for portfolios, search, message center, chat, etc! The party/group thing has been talked about since before I joined the site, so I'm interested to see how it turns out at last. :thumbsup:

I'm still a bit worried about films, though--just look at all the legal trouble Youtube has had.

Anyway, congrats on Daylight's success.

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Critiquing someone's prose or poetry is an awesome thing to do.
:star:The supremely awesome Mimesis 3 is available now!
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Hrmm... 42... I think a few Hitchhiker's Guide fans will be wet with joy over that.

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DISCLAIMER: Above statements may be entirely false.

Big boobs are just a distraction from the floor show.
:iconrotane:
Nice to finally welcome these new features, I'm eagerly waiting! Question though: when redesigning the Shop, does that include the arrival of panoramic prints?

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:iconkip0130:
maybe dA should incorporate a Lite mode into it for dial up users in the settings options

so they can hit it and it will disable all thumbnials and Custom CSS styling in a user page and so forth.

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:iconmc-cool:
Yay, im looking forward to these new features, I love dA now, and i sure will in the future!

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Vectography Issue 1 | iPW 4 Mac
:iconelandria:
New progress for Europe and Asia would be gratefully appreciated :) Its tough when peeps like rubbing it in that "closer to the mother ship you get less lag and time outs" (looks pointedly @ LawrenceDeDark before scuttling off to steal his cookies)

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Would you like some cheese to go with that whine Madam?
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awesome too bad im a hardware guy :(

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Sasquatch is beyond Car Safety Regulations

:faq: FAQs (aka Geeks best friends)
:iconmkr:
Any word on what the image sizes will be for user-made wear? It would be nice to go ahead and start designing some things. :P
 

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