New popularity metric on deviantART

deviantART upgrades to PHP5

As many of you know, the Mature Content filter was changed pretty drastically to an 18 and older system. This was necessitated by abuse of the system and was put in place as a stop gap measure while we gathered in depth opinion from the community as to what they desired to see in place, and from the artists who post such work.

Currently we are experiencing issues where new accounts cannot upload avatars.

Greetings all and welcome to another Community Development Update! This one is going to be focusing on two main items. Missing features and site speed issues and also some of the results of last month's Policy Revision Meeting members of the core staff participated in.

Today we launched a quick little addition to your message center.

On Sunday, June 24th at 2 AM PST we will be experiencing 10-30 minutes ( roughly ) of site downtime. We will be in the process of increasing our bandwidth which means faster site speed for all of us! :cheer:

We accepted a small investment last week in deviantART that will help us facilitate expansion in several key areas.

So there's some exciting news!

Where have you been?

It has been a while since I have released a proper Community Development Update, and that is due to a lot of different reasons. The primary one involves lots and lots of work behind the scenes! So read on to get a heaping helping of all things DA!